1900 to 2020 in the global war perspective ..

(From the Internet, I found this analysis exciting..,)

For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900.

 When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million. 

When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. 

That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. 

When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.  When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. 

At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish. 

At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. 

Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening. 

As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. 

Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? 

A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great grandparents) survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing art. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each other out, and we will get through all of this.” In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted. This too, shall pass.....

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Interesting, 👍👍 however out of interest and curiosity, added these events post 1990 to the perspective .. (if incomplete, pl point out .. ) ..

1. '90 Gulf war which saw 383 US deaths and over 100,000 Iraqi deaths

2. WTC bombing, NY '93, app. 3000 US citizens dead

3. Afghan war '01, 5500 US deaths and 92,000 Afghan deaths and still counting 

4. Iraq war '03, 4430 US deaths and 2,80 000 Iraqi deaths ... 😥😥😥😥

Sadly, US has been involved in almost all global combats over the past 70 years since WW2. 

The dropping of 2 atom bombs (Little boy and Fat man over Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively) killed between 1,30,000 and 2,30,000 civilians in the 2 Japanese cities.

The 1947 India Pakistan partition led to another 200,000 to 2 million perishing in both countries.  - upper limit ..

The '80 - '88 Iran Iraq war resulted in 500,000 to a million deaths in both sides , with no victor, no loser, no war reparations,  no border changes , only an economic loss of a trillion dollars.. 😳😳

While 1.7 billion (1,700,000,000) people inhabited the earth in 1900, now it is about 7.8 billion  (7,800,000,000), an increase of 6,100,000,000 (6.1 billion) people, global population growing at a compounded rate of 1.25% annually .. 🙂🙂

George..