What has been the worst war?

general De Witte

the 100 year war between France and England in the middle ages Together with the plague it made the most victims in the history

Please...the current war and Vietnam are NOWHERE NEAR "neck and neck".A lot more people in Vietnam have died than this war now.Know your history people.The Civil War is the bloodiest war of all time.They say that more people died in the Civil War than WW1 and WW2 combined.

vbplr_12

Iraq is nowhere near...not even in the same league. The death toll for the entire war is still less than some MONTHS for WWII and Viet Nam.
Anyone who was paying attention during history classes during middle school and high school knows that the bloodiest war in American history is the Civil War by far.

lordkelvin

All of them and more... War is hell, never good, but sometimes necessary

Kevin P

In terms of casulties and sheer destruction World War II surpasses all others.

tuesday

Civil War

Becki B

That depends of the componants. The worst war, for American casualties, would be the Civil War, because only Americans fought and died. The worst war for atrocities to humanity would be WWII, due to the millions of people killed due to intolerance.

tyrone b

WWII of course. More people shed blood in that war than any other.

All of them!!!

Barkley Hound

The Civil War

timm1776

World War II.

Over 50 million people killed, a majority of them civilians. Civilians were intentionally targeted and subject to wide-scale attack by all sides. On the Eastern Front, you had millions of people die in a campaign between one evil totalitarian regime against another evil, totalitarian regime. Large swaths of Europe and Asia were left under Communist domination after the war, fueling the decades-long Cold War and arms race that followed.

That's not to say the war shouldn't have been fought. Allowing Hitler and Tojo free reign to conquer Europe and Asia would have been immeasurably worse. Still, it was the costliest war in history and led to the oppression of millions of people in the years to follow.

Dont get Infected

the world wars i dont think were horrible if u look at what the affect was after them.. so id call those good wars.... i think that the bad war would have to be vietnam.... i mean ive been trying to figure out why we were there for about5 years and still havent found out the answer i am looking for... i found other answers that kinda answerd my question but not really... and the vietnam war was alot like this war that we are in now. nobody wants to fight in it.. not alot of people support it... but vietnam was alot worse... alot more people still suffer from the horrors of that war... 1 of my dads friends who faught in that war still sleeps with his eyes open and wakes up if u just whisper his name....

avenger

you could it the middle east war because as far as i remember there have newer been peace down there

bumpocooper

The worst war ever is World War II. Horrible Ideologies clashing and the death of so many because of ethnicity and their beliefs. Not to mention the introduction of the atomic bomb that changed the world and always on our mind when attacking another country.

dlp1701

To be honest the question is vague...
The worst war the US has ever been involved in was the American Civil War, with 364,511 Union Soldiers killed and an estimated 133,821 Confederate Soldiers. How many American Civilians killed??? no clue...

But if your talking about who has had the most casualties of any war?

According to Wikipedia the numbers for WW II are staggering... US losses were a mere 418,500 (includes 11,200 civilians killed)

But through out the entire conflict and the world (including the holocaust) 62,536,700 people were killed

Now... one of my favorite battles of all time The Battle of Thermopylae... 7000 Greeks defending the pass at Thermopylae held a Persian Army of somewhere between 200,000 and a little over 2 million (depending on what historical accounting you look at). At the end of seven days of fighting the Greeks lost only approximately 1,500. According some sources the Persians lost between 10 and 20 thousand.
If your comparing numbers for an army of 200,000 to be way-laid by an army of only 7000... Greeks were outnumbered at least 28:1 and as much as 314:1 (again depending on the historical account)... That's a pretty bad beat down...

Smiles_187

I agree with DJ.

I don't know why people are whining about this war being so horrible. War is bad, but this isn't the worst war. Check how many soldiers died in the last wars, and compare them to todays war. You'll see what i mean.

battle-ax

How could this possibly be the worse War, maybe you would rather fight in the Roman Wars, or faught against Kubla Kahn?
maybe fought for Alexander?

For me any war that would have required a sword would have to be pretty nasty!

Or using a musket that would be lucky to hit the broadside of a barn unless fired along side 40'000 others and even then, it was the shear volley that hit it's target.

brownsugar_smile

Any war is bad.

one glove

American or just ever? If your talking america I would have to say Vietnam. Civil war was bad but it accomplished something. If your talking about in the history of the world I would have to say the Mongol campaigns. They did some pretty savage things like slaughtering whole cities. Everything even the cats and dogs. If that happened somewhere today the US would be there instead of Iraq. maybe.

thomasrobinsonantonio

Without doubt the First WW when hundreds of thousands of young men were slaughtered in the trenches on the Western front. I still find it unbelievable that the so called 'leaders' could have condoned it. Only in the past couple of weeks it was announced in the UK that 3000 British soldiers who were shot for cowardice/desertion, whilst in fact they were suffering from shellshock and similar ailments, have or will be pardoned.........

terry

The current Iraq war will probably go down as one of the biggest blunders in history once it is all over. It is fueling the Islamic fundamentalism like nothing else ever has.

Genea_80

the one we are in now, and the vietnam war are neck and neck....

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