Minor Atrocities of the Twentieth Century


Here are just a few wars, oppressions and disturbances worldwide which have caused fewer deaths than the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, with approximately 6,000 deaths, the worst American natural disaster of the 1900s:


  1. United States Lynchings (1900-50)
  2. Macedonia (1903)
  3. Uruguay (1904)
  4. Tibet (1904)
  5. Zulu Revolt (1905)
  6. Kenya (1905)
  7. Bali (1906)
  8. Nigeria (1906)
  9. Central American Wars (1906-07)
  10. Persia (1908-09)
  11. Paraguay (1911-12)
  12. Cuba (1912)
  13. Tibet (1912-13)
  14. Ireland (1916-22)
  15. Morocco (1916-17)
  16. Russian Revolution (1917)
  17. Tibet (1918)
  18. Nigeria (1918)
  19. Haiti (1915-20)
  20. 3rd Anglo-Afghan War (1919)
  21. Germany (1919)
  22. Franco-Syrian War (1920)
  23. Poland-Lithuania War (1920)
  24. USA, Chicago gangster war (1920s)
  25. Honduras (1924)
  26. Sino-Soviet War (1929)
  27. Peru, Aprista Uprising (1932)
  28. Brazil (1932)
  29. Nicaragua, Sandino Rebellion (1926-33)
  30. Iraq (1933)
  31. Spain (1934)
  32. Germany, Austria (1934)
  33. Palestine(1936-39)
  34. Manchuria, Changkufeng Incident (1938)
  35. Franco-Thai War (1940-41)
  36. Iran (1945-47)
  37. Palestine (1945-48)
  38. Paraguay (1947)
  39. Yemen (1948)
  40. Costa Rica (1948)
  41. India (1948)
  42. Thailand (1948-77)
  43. Cuba (1952-59)
  44. Bolivia (1952)
  45. Tunisia (1952-56)
  46. Morocco (1953-56)
  47. Korea, DMZ (1953- )
  48. Taiwan, civil strife (1954-55)
  49. Paraguay (1954-89)
  50. Argentina (1955)
  51. Central America (1955)
  52. Cyprus (1955-59)
  53. Central America (1957)
  54. Lebanon (1958)
  55. Iraq (1959-66)
  56. Spain (1961 et seq.)
  57. Tunisia (1961)
  58. Sino-Indian War (1962)
  59. Malaysia (1962-65)
  60. South Arab Fed. (1963-67)
  61. Kenya (1963-67)
  62. Cyprus (1963-67)
  63. Zambia (1964)
  64. Congo-Leopoldville (1964-65)
  65. Brazil, Military Regime (1964-85)
  66. Central African Republic/Empire (1965-79)
  67. Uganda (1966)
  68. Congo (Kinshasa) (1967-68)
  69. Greece, military junta (1967-74)
  70. Czechoslovakia (1968)
  71. Paraguay (1968-74)
  72. Iraq (1968)
  73. India (1968 et seq.)
  74. Sino-Soviet Border War (1969)
  75. Soccer War (1969)
  76. Northern Ireland, The Troubles (1969-98)
  77. Jordan (1970-71)
  78. Mexico (1970-85)
  79. Sri Lanka (1971)
  80. Bolivia (1971-78)
  81. Uruguay, Military Regime (1973-85)
  82. Cyprus (1974)
  83. Turkey, (1975-80)
  84. Bangladesh, (1975 et seq.)
  85. Zaire (1977-83)
  86. Guyana, Jonestown (1978)
  87. Iran (1978-79)
  88. South Korea (1980)
  89. Jamaica (1980)
  90. Brazil (1980)
  91. Bolivia, regime of Luis Garcia Meza (1980-81)
  92. Turkey (1980-87)
  93. Honduras (1980-88)
  94. Gambia (1981)
  95. Ghana (1981-95)
  96. Falkland Islands War (1982)
  97. Senegal (1982- )
  98. Zimbabwe, Mugabe Regime (1980- )
  99. Grenada, US invasion (1983)
  100. Brazil (1985-94)
  101. Paraguay (1989)
  102. Romania (1989)
  103. Panama, US invasion (1989)
  104. China (1989)
  105. Rwanda (1990)
  106. Moldova (1990-97)
  107. Kenya (1991- )
  108. Haiti (1991-94)
  109. Egypt (1992-)
  110. India (1992 et seq.)
  111. Pakistan, Sindh War (1992- )
  112. United States and elsewhere, jihadist terrorism (1993- )
  113. Peru-Ecuador War (1995-97)
  114. Nepal (1996- )
  115. Albania (1997)
  116. Mexican-American Border (1997- )
  117. Iraq (1998)
  118. Indonesia (1998)
  119. Brazil, police killings (1998-99)
  120. Kashmir (1999)


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