Collection of facts about the Vietnam War

This post is a collection of facts about the Vietnam War (1955-1975). There are 22 facts listed below.

• North Vietnam and Viet Cong supported by Soviet Union and China
• South Vietnam supported by United States
• Total casualties: 1.3 - 3.4 million
• Vietnamese civilian casualties: 400 thousand - 2.0 million
• US casualties: 58 thousand
• 1954 Geneva Conference ends French Indochina and establishes 17th parallel border between North Vietnam and South Vietnam
• North Vietnam invades Laos: 1958
• Laotian Civil War: 1959-1975
• Buddhist crisis: 1963
• South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm assassinated: November 2nd, 1963
• Gulf of Tonkin incident: 1964
• Operation Rolling Thunder: 1965-1968
• Buddhist Uprising: 1966
• Cambodian Civil War: 1967-1975
• Huế massacre: 1968
• My Lai massacre: 1968
• Tet Offensive: 1968
• Easter Offensive: 1972
• Paris Peace Accords: 1973
• 1975 spring offensive
• Fall of Phnom Penh: April 1975
• Fall of Saigon: April 30th, 1975

Sources

Wikipedia: Vietnam War, Laotian Civil War, Cambodian Civil War, 1970 Cambodian coup d'état

Collection of facts about the Yugoslav Wars

This post is a collection of facts about the Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001). There are 14 facts listed below.

• Caused by the breakup of Yugoslavia into six countries: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia
• Total casualties: 130,000 - 140,000+
• Ten-Day War (Slovenian War of Independence): June 27th - July 7th, 1991
• Croatian War of Independence: 1991-1995
• Battle of Vukovar: August 25th - November 18th, 1991
• Siege of Dubrovnik: October 1st, 1991 - May 31st, 1992
• United Nations Protection Force active: 1992-1995
• Bosnian War: 1992-1995
• Siege of Sarajevo: April 5th, 1992 - February 29th, 1996
• Srebrenica massacre: 1995
• Insurgency in Kosovo: 1995-1998
• Kosovo War: 1998-1999
• Insurgency in the Preševo Valley: 1999-2001
• Insurgency in Macedonia: 2001

Sources

Wikipedia: Yugoslav Wars, Battle of Vukovar, Siege of Dubrovnik, United Nations Protection Force, Siege of Sarajevo

Collection of facts about the Crusades in the Holy Land

This post is a collection of facts about the Crusades in the Holy Land (1095-1291). There are 16 facts listed below chronologically.

• Pope Urban II calls Council of Clermont: 1095
• Mission to conquer Jerusalem from Muslim rule
• Casualties: 1 - 3 million
• First Crusade: 1096-1099
• Siege of Jerusalem: 1099
• Second Crusade: 1147-1150
• Third Crusade: 1189-1192
• Fourth Crusade: 1202-1204
• Fifth Crusade: 1217-1221
• Sixth Crusade: 1227-1229
• Baron's Crusade: 1239-1241
• Seventh Crusade: 1248-1254
• Eighth Crusade: 1270
• Lord Edward's Crusade: 1271-1272
• Fall of Outremer: 1272-1302
• Siege of Acre: 1291

Sources

Wikipedia: Crusades, First Crusade, Second Crusade, Third Crusade, Fourth Crusade, Fifth Crusade, Sixth Crusade, Baron's Crusade, Seventh Crusade, Eighth Crusade, Lord Edward's Crusade, Fall of Outremer, List of wars by death toll

Collection of facts about the Hundred Years' War

This post is a collection of facts about the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). There are 17 facts listed below.

• Conflict between England and France
• Caused by claim to the French throne
• Charles IV of France died in 1328 and his nephew Edward III of England was the closest male relative
• Lasted 116 years
• Total casualties: 2.3 - 3.5 million
• Edwardian War: 1337-1360
• Battle of Crécy: 1346
• Battle of Poitiers: 1356
• Treaty of Brétigny: 1360
• Caroline War: 1369-1389
• Lancastrian War: 1415-1453
• Battle of Agincourt: 1415
• Battle of Verneuil: 1424
• Siege of Orléans: 1429
• Joan of Arc captured and executed: 1431
• Battle of Formigny: 1450
• Battle of Castillon: 1453

Sources

Wikipedia: Hundred Years' War, List of wars by death toll

Collection of facts about the Code of Hammurabi

This post is a collection of facts about the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1753). There are 5 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Legal text for Babylon
• Akkadian language
• Inscribed on a basalt stele
• 2.25 meters tall
• 4,130 lines of text

Collection of facts about the American Civil War

This post is a collection of facts about the American Civil War (1861-1865). There are 10 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Total casualties: 620,000 - 750,000 soldiers
• Confederacy formed by seven states which secede from the United States: 1861
• Confederacy attacks Fort Sumter: April 12th, 1861
• First Battle of Bull Run: July 1861
• Battle of Antietam: September 17, 1862
• Emancipation Proclamation abolishes slavery: January 1st, 1863
• Battle of Gettysburg: July 1863
• Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant: April 9th, 1865
• Abraham Lincoln assassinated: April 14th, 1865
• Last confederacy troops disbanded: May 26th, 1865

Collection of facts about World War II

This post is a collection of facts about World War II (1939-1945). There are 15 facts listed below.

• Allied counties: United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union
• Axis countries: Germany, Japan, Italy
• Total casualties: 60 million
• Military casualties: 20 million
• Civilian casualties: 40 million
• Holocaust: 6 million Jews killed
• Germany invades Poland: September 1st, 1939
• Germany invades Soviet Union: June 22nd, 1941
• Japan attacks Pearl Harbor: December 7th, 1941
• Battle of Stalingrad: July 1942 - February 1943
• Allies invade Normandy, France: June 6th, 1944
• Yalta Conference between Allied countries: February 4th, 1945
• Germany surrenders: May 8th, 1945
• United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: August 6th and 9th, 1945
• Japan surrenders: September 2nd, 1945

Sources

Wikipedia: World War II, Battle of Stalingrad