What war had the most casualties?

Answer 1

1. Death Toll: 55 million Cause: WWII Century: 20C 2. Death Toll: 40 million Cause: Mao Zedong (mostly famine) Century: 20C 3. Death Toll: 40 million Cause: Mongol Conquests Century: 13C 4. Death Toll: 36 million Cause: An Lushan Revolt Century: 8C 5. Death Toll: 25 million Cause: Fall of the Ming Dynasty Century: 17C

Answer 2

World War II: Combatants and Casualties (1937 - 45)

The figures below are gathered from various sources and, inevitably, are estimates for the most part. The starting point is taken as 1937, when in July of that year China was invaded by Japan in a widening war that continued until the defeat of both Japan and Germany in 1945. The figures for China and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.), in particular, may be off by millions. The purpose is to indicate the immensity of the human losses in this most terrible of all wars, one characterized by unspeakable atrocities, germ warfare, enormous civilian casualties, genocide of 5 1/2 million European Jews, and the use of a new and terror-laden weapon of war--the atomic bomb. Estimates of the death toll attributable to the war for military and civilian losses have ranged upward to 60 million, with civilian losses at or more than 50 percent of that total (a stark contrast with the losses of WWI, in which such losses were no more than five percent). The war had a far greater global reach than its predecessor; over 50 countries or dependencies were listed as having some degree of involvement.

The greatest human losses, as indicated below, were suffered by combatants and civilians of the Soviet Union and China. In the near two-and-a-half year siege of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) by the German forces, 1 1/2 million Russians alone died from shelling, bombing, disease and starvation, a figure that exceeded all the military casualties of the U.S.A.and British Commonwealth combined. The cruelties perpetrated by morally depraved units of the Japanese army in China is demonstrated most vividly in the torture and massacre of civilians and the barbaric killing of war prisoners in the infamous Rape of Nanking that took the lives of over 300,000 Chinese. Other mass civilian deaths, apart from the singular destruction of European Jews, comprise the hundreds of thousands of slave laborers in the Japanese-held Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) as well as the 1 1/2 million deaths in Bengal as a consequence of war-related famine.

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World War1 laid the groundwork for WWll

This was a war which had no purpose, was fought without good reason and by the time it was over 9 million would be dead, four empires destroyed and the stage set for World War Two.

Answer 3

The Civil War had the most casualties because Americans fought each other.

The Civil War had around 625,000 deaths,and over 1,200,000 were wounded

Answer 4

World War II

It has a low estimate of 40,000,000 and a high estimate of 72,000,000

Answer 5

The war that had the most military casualties was World War II. There were 1,076, 245 military casualties during that time.

Answer 6

We fought ourselves during the US Civil War; naturally that'll cause more casualties.

Answer 7

The Civil War

Answer 8

The Civil War;Apex ;)

Answer 9

Civil War