Twentieth Century in Numbers

On-the-century (though we are not used, the last century is the century) English Time magazine conducted a study, supported by surveys and reviews of various publications worldwide, with the aim to summarize the past 100 years human development, tempered by a troubled atmosphere of wars, scientific discoveries, technological development and new diseases. Time has not sought to prioritize its discretion, but has been limited to expressing the various discrepancies regarding this issue have been woven. For this study surveyed 1245 persons, we reviewed more than 456 articles and processed around 841 databases across the globe in order to obtain greater clarity and accuracy in the results. The list of personalities, facts and events that appear in these lists are subject to different criteria, usually specialists, which does not mean that they are the absolute truth.

HISTORICAL FACTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

1. The fall of the Berlin Wall — November 9, 1989
2. — Surrender of Germany May 8, 1945
3. UN Foundation — June 26, 1945
4. Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — 6 and August 9, 1945
5. Russian Bolshevik Revolution — November 7, 1917
6. Dallas shooting (Assassination of JF Kennedy) — April 22, 1963
7. — Cuban Revolution January 1, 1959
8. Election of President Mikhail Gorbachev as CPSU — March 11, 1985
9. START treaties were signed between the U.S. and the USSR — July 31, 1991
10. — Bosnian Serb attack on April 6, 1992
11. Allied landing in Normandy — June 21, 1944
12. Mexican Revolution — January 1911
13. Top of the Gulf War — January 17, 1991
14. Election of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa — May 20, 1994
15. Murder of Mahatma Gandhi — January 30, 1948

THE WORSTEST WARS

Here is the list of the 20 worst wars in this century, followed by their respective numbers:

1. Second World War, 1939-1945, 45 000 000 deaths
2. World War, 1914-1918, 23 000 000 deaths
3. Civil war in Cambodia, 1975-1979, 2 500 000 deaths
4. Ethnic conflict in Rwanda, 1963-present, 1 500 000 deaths
5. Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988, 1 100 000 dead
6. U.S. invasion of Vietnam 1965-1975, 1 000 000 deaths
7. Civil war in Angola, 1965-1994, 1 000 000 deaths
8. Civil and ethnic war in Afghanistan, 1979-1988, 1 000 000 deaths
9. Ethnic war in Sudan, 1956-present, 1 000 000 deaths
10. Civil war in Mozambique, 1973-1991, 850 000 deaths
11. Civil war and massacres in Burundi, 1966-present, 550 000 deaths
12. Civil War in Burma, 1942-1960, 300 000 deaths
13. War between clans in Somalia, 1991, 300 000 deaths
14. Coup in Uganda, 1971, 300 000 deaths
15. Ethnic war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995, 200 000 deaths
16. Indonesian invasion of East Timor, 1975, 200 000 deaths
17. Civil war in Guatemala, 1961-1996, 150 000 deaths
18. Civil war in Liberia, 1987, 150 000 deaths
19. Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 1975-1991, 150 000 deaths
20. Clan war in Tajikistan, 1992, 150 000 deaths