How many people died in WW1?

[Green]

And whos fault was it?

[wingedtriangle]

just under a million i think and it was archduke ferdinands faults for getting blown up

[TheMadcapSyd]

just under a million i think and it was archduke ferdinands faults for getting blown upWaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more.

Something around 14-17 million is a good estimate, Wikipedia gives it at over 15 million. That's just in WW1 itself, then you have to decided if all the causualties from other wars which were a direct consquence should also be counted.(Russian civil war, Polish-Soviet War, Greek-Turkish war, Armenian genocide) And remember, 15 million or so is just the death toll, casualties are estimated at about 37 million, which means 22 million who were wounded along with another 15 million who were wounded and died.

As for who started it, good question, Serbian nationalists or Serbia not giving into all of Austria's demands? Austria putting ridicuous demands in the message to Serbia and actually being the 1st to decalre war. Russia for turning a regional war into something bigger by coming into the conflict?

[SLammon420]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more.


definitely...i'm not sure how many but i know it's a shitload.

[jay]

i would say it was they system of alliances that really turned waht could of been a small serbian war into world war I,
did you know that because of the population loss in france due to wwi all forms of contriceptive were banned until the early 1970s?

[mr.morrison]

who ever shot mr ferdinand.

[YankNBurn]

World War One Death Statistics

Russia : 1,700,000
France : 1,357,800
British Empire : 908,371
Italy : 650,000
United States : 126,000
Japan : 300
Romania : 335,706
Serbia : 45,000
Belgium : 13,716
Greece : 5,000
Portugal : 7,222
Montenegro : 50,000
Germany : 1,773,700
Austria-Hungary : 1,200,000
Turkey : 325,000
Bulgaria : 87,500

[YankNBurn]

World War One Wounded

Russia : 4,950,000
France : 4,266,000
British Empire : 2,090,212
Italy : 947,000
United States : 234,300
Japan : 907
Romania : 120,000
Serbia : 133,148
Belgium : 44,686
Greece : 21,000
Portugal : 13,751
Montenegro : 10,000
Germany : 4,216,058
Austria-Hungary : 3,620,000
Turkey : 400,000
Bulgaria : 152,390

[YankNBurn]

World War One Timeline

1914 :
Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Austria-Hungary declare war on Serbia.
Germany declares war on Russia.
France orders mobilisation.
Germany demands free passage through Belgium.
Germany declares war on France.
Belgium rejects Germany's demand.
Germany at war with Belgium.
Great Britain at war with Germany.
Austria, Hungary at war with Russia.
French forces invade Alsace.
Montenegro at war with Austria.
Great Britain's Expeditionary Force lands at Ostend, Calais and Dunkirk.
Serbia at war with Germany.
Great Britain at war with Austria-Hungary.
Montenegro at war with Germany.
Belgian capital removed from Brussels to Antwerp.
Canadian Parliament authorises raising expeditionary force.
Germans occupy Brussels.
Japan at war with Germany.
Germans enter France near Lille.
Austria at war with Japan.
Austria declares war on Belgium.
Amiens occupied by Germans.
Paris placed in state of siege.
Battle of Marne.
French reoccupy Amiens and Rheims.
Antwerp bombardment begins.
British Admiralty announces intention to mine North Sea areas.
Antwerp surrenders to Germans.
British occupy Ypres.
Canadian Expeditionary Force of 32,000 men lands at Plymouth.
Germans occupy Ostend.
Great Britain and France declare war on Turkey.
Cyprus annexed by Great Britain.
German squadron bombards Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby on east coast of England.

1915 :
Prussians defeated by Germans in Battle of Masurian Lakes.
German submarine 'blockade' of British Isles begins.
Allied fleet destroys outer forts of Dardanelles.
British take Neuve Chapelle in Flanders battle.
Austrian fortress of Przmysl surrenders to Russians.
Poison gas first used by Germans.
British South Africa troops under General Botha capture Otymbingue, German Southwest Africa.
Germans capture Libau, Russian Baltic port.
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
German Zeppelins bombard suburbs of London.
German aircraft bomb English towns.
Allied aircraft bombs Karlsruhe, Baden, in retaliation.
Lemberg recaptured by Austrians.
Montenegrins enter Scutari, Albania.
German Southwest African surrenders to British South African troops under Gen. Botha.
Warsaw captured by Germans.
Gallipoli Peninsula campaign enters a second stage.
Russians defeat German fleet at entrance of Gulf of Riga.
Brest-Litovsk, Russian fortress, captured by Austro-Germans.
Italians reach Cima Cista, north-east of Trent.
British submarine attacks Constantinople.
Lutsk, Russian fortress, captured by Austrians.
Czar Nicholas of Russia assumes command of Russian armies.
Allies open offensive on Western front and occupy Lens.
Belgrade again occupied by Austro-Germans.
London bombarded by Zeppelins.
Bulgaria at war with Serbia.
Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria.
France at war with Bulgaria.
Italy and Russia at war with Bulgaria.
Nish, Serbian war capital, captured by Bulgarians.
Serbian government transferred to Scutari, Albania.
Gen. Sir Douglas Haig succeeds Field Marshal Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of British forces in France.
British troops begin withdrawal from positions on Suvla Bay and Gallipoli Peninsula.


1916
Greek island of Corfu occupied by French.
German Zeppelins bomb Paris and towns in England.
British conscription law goes into effect.
Battle of Verdun begins.
Fort Douaumont falls to Germans in Verdun battle.
Germany declares war on Portugal.
Austria-Hungary at war with Portugal.
Melancourt taken by Germans in Verdun Battle.
Russian troops landed at Marseilles.
Italian positions penetrated by Austrians.
Vimy Ridge gained by British.
Bulgarians invade Greece and occupy forts on the Struma.
Jutland naval battle.
Germans capture Fort Vaux in Verdun attack.
Allies demand Greek demobilization.
King Constantine orders demobilization of Greek army.
British and French attack north and south of the Somme.
British penetrate German second line.
Longueval captured by British.
British and French advance between Delville Wood and the Somme.
French recapture Fleury.
Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
Italy at war with Germany.
Germany at war with Romania.
Bulgaria at war with Romania.
Bulgarian forces invade Romania along the Dobrudja frontier.
Italians defeat Austrians on the Carso.
British capture Flers, Courcelette, and other Germans positions on Western front.
Combles and Thiepval captured by British and French.
Roumanians begin retreat from Transylvania.
Fort Douaumont recaptured by French.
Fort Vaux evacuated by Germans.
German warships bombard English coast.
Allied troops enter Athens.
Bucharest, capital of Roumania, captured by Austro-Germans.
French complete recapture of ground taken by Germans in Verdun battle.
1917 :
California, Anchor liner, is sunk off Irish coast.
Afric, White Star liner, sunk by submarine.
British troops on the Ancre capture German positions.
Laconia, Cunard liner, sunk off Irish coast.
Russian Czar suspends sittings of the Duma.
Bagdad captured by British forces under Gen. Maude.
Czar Nicholas abdicates.
Bapaume falls to British.
Peronne, Chaulnes, Nesle and Noyon evacuated by Germans.
Alexander Ribot becomes French premier, succeeding Briand.
British advance on Cambrai.
Cuba and Panama at war with Germany.
Austria-Hungary breaks with United States.
Germans retreat before British on long front.
Bolivia breaks with Germany.
Turkey breaks with United States.
Germany announces intention of sinking all vessels in war zone around British Isles.
Liberia breaks with Germany.
Honduras breaks with German.
Conscription bill signed by President Wilson.
Nicaragua breaks with Germany.
Italians advance on the Carso.
Messines-Wytschaete ridge in English hands.
Russians begin offensive in Gallicia.
Canadian House of Commons passes Compulsory Military Service Bill.
King Constantine of Greece abdicates in favor of his secondson, Alexander.
Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian premier.
Drawing of draft number for American conscript army begins.
Siam at war with Germany and Austria.
Franco-British attack penetrates German lines on a 20-mile front.
Liberia at war with Germany.
China at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Canadian troops capture Hill 70, dominating Lens.
Italians cross the Isonzo and take Austrian positions.
Riga captured by Germans.
Paul Painleve becomes French premier.
Russia proclaimed a republic by Kerensky.
Costa Rica breaks with Germany.
Turkish Mesopotamian army, under Ahmed Bey, captured by British.
Peru and Uruguay break with Germany.
Poelcapelle and other German positions captured in Franco- British attack.
French advance northeast of Soissons.
Austro-Germans begin great offensive on Italian positions.
Italians retreat across the Isonzo and evacuate the Bainsizza Plateau.
Brazil at war with Germany.
Beersheba, in Palestine, occupied by British.
Germans abandon position on Chemin des Dames.
Passchendaele captured by Canadians.
The Russian Bolsheviki, led by Lenin and Trotzsky, seize Potrograd and depose Kerensky.
Lenin becomes Premier of Russia.
Georges Clemenceau becomes Premier of France.
German East Africa reported completely conquered.
Finland declares independence.
Jerusalem, held by the Turks for 673 years, surrenders to British, under Gen. Allenby.
Panama at war with Austria-Hungary.
United States at war with Austria-Hungary.
Armistice signed between Germany and Russia at Brest-Litovsk.


1918 :
German offensive redirects towards Amiens and Paris.
German Operation 'Mars' repulsed at Arras.
Australians halt German advance at Villers Bretonneux.
British attempt to blockade Ostend harbour fails.
German offensive 'Blucher' launched.
Austrian offensive at Asiago defeated by combined British and French force.
Ludendorff launches final offensive.
British 15th Cavalry Brigade attacks Haifa.
Allied offensive at Meuse-Argonne.
Ludendorff is dismissed.
Kiel mutiny by German sailors.
On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, the Armistice is signed effectively halting the War. The final Treaty of Versailles, is signed on June 28, 1919.

[YankNBurn]

Cost Of World War One 1914-18

Cost in $

United States : 22,625,253,000
Great Britain : 35,334,012,000
France : 24,265,583,000
Russia : 22,293,950,000
Italy : 12,413,998,000
Belgium : 1,154,468,000
Romania : 1,600,000,000
Japan : 40,000,000
Serbia : 399,400,000
Greece : 270,000,000
Canada : 1,665,576,000
Australia : 1,423,208,000
New Zealand : 378,750,000
India : 601,279,000
South Africa : 300,000,000
British Colonies : 125,000,000
Germany : 37,775,000,000
Austria-Hungary : 20,622,960,000
Turkey : 1,430,000,000
Bulgaria : 815,200,000

[YankNBurn]

World War One Army Size 1914-18

Russia : 12,000,000
France : 8,410,000
Great Britain : 8,905,000
Italy : 5,615,000
United States : 4,355,000
Japan : 800,000
Romania : 750,000
Serbia : 707,000
Belgium : 267,000
Greece : 230,000
Portugal : 100,000
Montenegro : 50,000
Germany : 11,000,000
Austria-Hungary : 7,800,000
Turkey : 2,850,000
Bulgaria : 1,200,000

[YankNBurn]

That was all I could uncover, sorry so long

[Flight From Ashiya]

World War One Death Statistics

Russia : 1,700,000
France : 1,357,800
British Empire : 908,371
Italy : 650,000
United States : 126,000
Japan : 300
Romania : 335,706
Serbia : 45,000
Belgium : 13,716
Greece : 5,000
Portugal : 7,222
Montenegro : 50,000
Germany : 1,773,700
Austria-Hungary : 1,200,000
Turkey : 325,000
Bulgaria : 87,500


An awesome figure!.
I read somewhere that the Flu Pandemic of 1918 killed a staggering: 20 million people....more people than who died during the whole of world war one.

[Supermegaman]

a lot

[SunLion]

None killed at all, compared with what we're likely to see from George W. Bush before he's done.

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm#WW1

The above link contains a pretty decent list of sources and numbers.

[Occam]

Yes

The 'spanish flu' killed way more than ww1 [more like 35 to 40 millions]

It seems viruses are far more deadly than kitcherer and his psychosis
Or hindenburg and his plans of empire

We are but worms of little consequence to our biosphere
Wake up humans...your undies are down at your ankles and your egos
are displayed.
Nature can kill us...we cant hurt nature. just alter it.

Occam

[Big Bull]

World War One Timeline

1914 :
Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Austria-Hungary declare war on Serbia.
Germany declares war on Russia.
France orders mobilisation.
Germany demands free passage through Belgium.
Germany declares war on France.
Belgium rejects Germany's demand.
Germany at war with Belgium.
Great Britain at war with Germany.
Austria, Hungary at war with Russia.
French forces invade Alsace.
Montenegro at war with Austria.
Great Britain's Expeditionary Force lands at Ostend, Calais and Dunkirk.
Serbia at war with Germany.
Great Britain at war with Austria-Hungary.
Montenegro at war with Germany.
Belgian capital removed from Brussels to Antwerp.
Canadian Parliament authorises raising expeditionary force.
Germans occupy Brussels.
Japan at war with Germany.
Germans enter France near Lille.
Austria at war with Japan.
Austria declares war on Belgium.
Amiens occupied by Germans.
Paris placed in state of siege.
Battle of Marne.
French reoccupy Amiens and Rheims.
Antwerp bombardment begins.
British Admiralty announces intention to mine North Sea areas.
Antwerp surrenders to Germans.
British occupy Ypres.
Canadian Expeditionary Force of 32,000 men lands at Plymouth.
Germans occupy Ostend.
Great Britain and France declare war on Turkey.
Cyprus annexed by Great Britain.
German squadron bombards Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby on east coast of England.

1915 :
Prussians defeated by Germans in Battle of Masurian Lakes.
German submarine 'blockade' of British Isles begins.
Allied fleet destroys outer forts of Dardanelles.
British take Neuve Chapelle in Flanders battle.
Austrian fortress of Przmysl surrenders to Russians.
Poison gas first used by Germans.
British South Africa troops under General Botha capture Otymbingue, German Southwest Africa.
Germans capture Libau, Russian Baltic port.
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
German Zeppelins bombard suburbs of London.
German aircraft bomb English towns.
Allied aircraft bombs Karlsruhe, Baden, in retaliation.
Lemberg recaptured by Austrians.
Montenegrins enter Scutari, Albania.
German Southwest African surrenders to British South African troops under Gen. Botha.
Warsaw captured by Germans.
Gallipoli Peninsula campaign enters a second stage.
Russians defeat German fleet at entrance of Gulf of Riga.
Brest-Litovsk, Russian fortress, captured by Austro-Germans.
Italians reach Cima Cista, north-east of Trent.
British submarine attacks Constantinople.
Lutsk, Russian fortress, captured by Austrians.
Czar Nicholas of Russia assumes command of Russian armies.
Allies open offensive on Western front and occupy Lens.
Belgrade again occupied by Austro-Germans.
London bombarded by Zeppelins.
Bulgaria at war with Serbia.
Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria.
France at war with Bulgaria.
Italy and Russia at war with Bulgaria.
Nish, Serbian war capital, captured by Bulgarians.
Serbian government transferred to Scutari, Albania.
Gen. Sir Douglas Haig succeeds Field Marshal Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of British forces in France.
British troops begin withdrawal from positions on Suvla Bay and Gallipoli Peninsula.


1916
Greek island of Corfu occupied by French.
German Zeppelins bomb Paris and towns in England.
British conscription law goes into effect.
Battle of Verdun begins.
Fort Douaumont falls to Germans in Verdun battle.
Germany declares war on Portugal.
Austria-Hungary at war with Portugal.
Melancourt taken by Germans in Verdun Battle.
Russian troops landed at Marseilles.
Italian positions penetrated by Austrians.
Vimy Ridge gained by British.
Bulgarians invade Greece and occupy forts on the Struma.
Jutland naval battle.
Germans capture Fort Vaux in Verdun attack.
Allies demand Greek demobilization.
King Constantine orders demobilization of Greek army.
British and French attack north and south of the Somme.
British penetrate German second line.
Longueval captured by British.
British and French advance between Delville Wood and the Somme.
French recapture Fleury.
Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
Italy at war with Germany.
Germany at war with Romania.
Bulgaria at war with Romania.
Bulgarian forces invade Romania along the Dobrudja frontier.
Italians defeat Austrians on the Carso.
British capture Flers, Courcelette, and other Germans positions on Western front.
Combles and Thiepval captured by British and French.
Roumanians begin retreat from Transylvania.
Fort Douaumont recaptured by French.
Fort Vaux evacuated by Germans.
German warships bombard English coast.
Allied troops enter Athens.
Bucharest, capital of Roumania, captured by Austro-Germans.
French complete recapture of ground taken by Germans in Verdun battle.
1917 :
California, Anchor liner, is sunk off Irish coast.
Afric, White Star liner, sunk by submarine.
British troops on the Ancre capture German positions.
Laconia, Cunard liner, sunk off Irish coast.
Russian Czar suspends sittings of the Duma.
Bagdad captured by British forces under Gen. Maude.
Czar Nicholas abdicates.
Bapaume falls to British.
Peronne, Chaulnes, Nesle and Noyon evacuated by Germans.
Alexander Ribot becomes French premier, succeeding Briand.
British advance on Cambrai.
Cuba and Panama at war with Germany.
Austria-Hungary breaks with United States.
Germans retreat before British on long front.
Bolivia breaks with Germany.
Turkey breaks with United States.
Germany announces intention of sinking all vessels in war zone around British Isles.
Liberia breaks with Germany.
Honduras breaks with German.
Conscription bill signed by President Wilson.
Nicaragua breaks with Germany.
Italians advance on the Carso.
Messines-Wytschaete ridge in English hands.
Russians begin offensive in Gallicia.
Canadian House of Commons passes Compulsory Military Service Bill.
King Constantine of Greece abdicates in favor of his secondson, Alexander.
Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian premier.
Drawing of draft number for American conscript army begins.
Siam at war with Germany and Austria.
Franco-British attack penetrates German lines on a 20-mile front.
Liberia at war with Germany.
China at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Canadian troops capture Hill 70, dominating Lens.
Italians cross the Isonzo and take Austrian positions.
Riga captured by Germans.
Paul Painleve becomes French premier.
Russia proclaimed a republic by Kerensky.
Costa Rica breaks with Germany.
Turkish Mesopotamian army, under Ahmed Bey, captured by British.
Peru and Uruguay break with Germany.
Poelcapelle and other German positions captured in Franco- British attack.
French advance northeast of Soissons.
Austro-Germans begin great offensive on Italian positions.
Italians retreat across the Isonzo and evacuate the Bainsizza Plateau.
Brazil at war with Germany.
Beersheba, in Palestine, occupied by British.
Germans abandon position on Chemin des Dames.
Passchendaele captured by Canadians.
The Russian Bolsheviki, led by Lenin and Trotzsky, seize Potrograd and depose Kerensky.
Lenin becomes Premier of Russia.
Georges Clemenceau becomes Premier of France.
German East Africa reported completely conquered.
Finland declares independence.
Jerusalem, held by the Turks for 673 years, surrenders to British, under Gen. Allenby.
Panama at war with Austria-Hungary.
United States at war with Austria-Hungary.
Armistice signed between Germany and Russia at Brest-Litovsk.


1918 :
German offensive redirects towards Amiens and Paris.
German Operation 'Mars' repulsed at Arras.
Australians halt German advance at Villers Bretonneux.
British attempt to blockade Ostend harbour fails.
German offensive 'Blucher' launched.
Austrian offensive at Asiago defeated by combined British and French force.
Ludendorff launches final offensive.
British 15th Cavalry Brigade attacks Haifa.
Allied offensive at Meuse-Argonne.
Ludendorff is dismissed.
Kiel mutiny by German sailors.
On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, the Armistice is signed effectively halting the War. The final Treaty of Versailles, is signed on June 28, 1919.
Good job DUDE you really do your homework, well done!

[PsyGrunge]

To think, all those people died for their country, end of story with no questions asked. You really have gotta ask yourself, if there was a war in this day and age would we all be so willing to go to war knowing that there was a high possibility of death, just for the sake of protecting our countries? I highly doubt it, just another factor which shows the human race is constantly changing and getting out of control and more anarchist and apathatic all the time.

[bamboo]

The first four hours of an all out nuclear war would make the death toll in WWI and WWII combined seem like nothing.

[lakshen]

not enough...

[MaximusXXX]

75 Million

25 Million Soviets

20 Million Chinese

9 Million Germans

6 Million Jews

3 Million Japanese

12 Million Others