The 20th century has been marked as the bloodiest in history?

Question

Why do you think that is?
Weapons? More intolerance? Religion? Money? Or what? Name the reason (or reasons) you think.

Answer 1

Greater population, better weapons, Leftist political thought

Our century is noted for its absolute and bloody wars. World War I saw nine-million people killed in battle, an incredi ble record that was far surpassed within a few decades by the 15 million battle deaths of World War II. Even the number killed in twentieth century revolutions and civil wars have set historical records. In total, this century's battle killed in all its international and domestic wars, revolutions, and violent conflicts is so far about 35,654,000.

Yet, even more unbelievable than these vast numbers killed in war during the lifetime of some still living, and largely unknown, is this shocking fact. This century's total killed by absolutist governments already far exceeds that for all wars, domestic and international. Indeed, this number already approximates the number that might be killed in a nuclear war.

From 1918 to 1953, the Soviet government executed, slaughtered, starved, beat or tortured to death, or otherwise killed 39,500,000 of its own people (the best estimate among figures ranging from a minimum of twenty million killed by Stalin to a total over the whole communist period of eighty-three million). For China under Mao Tse-tung, the communist government eliminated, as an average figure between estimates, 45,000,000 Chinese. The number killed for just these two nations is about 84,500,000 human beings, or a lethality of 252 percent more than both World Wars together

Answer 2

Intolerance, because the Twentieth Century saw the rise of fascism, communism, and imperialism, all of which caused two world wars and a cold war that lasted for 78 of the 100 years in the twentieth century. Also not to mention that for about seventy-five years, segregation was the law of the land for the Southeastern United States, America had an AIDS epidemic in the 1980's that few people recognized in the early years because of an intolerance for homosexuals, which Jerry Fallwell, Pat Robertson, and many more in the Christian Right saw as a damnation from god on homosexuals. Last but not least, Germany and the Soviet Union killed millions of people with Germany's concentration camps during WW2 and the Gulags that Stalin ran during his reign, which he killed millions of his own countrymen.

Answer 3

So far it is definitely the bloodiest. Why? TECHNOLOGY! The introduction of tanks, airplanes, long range artillery and automatic weapons (machine guns) in WWI earned it the name "the war to end all wars"...Well it didn't and the technology just kept improving and still does. Several hundred million were killed as a result of warfare during the 20th century. I'm guessing the 21st will make the 20th look like a picnic in June.

Answer 4

It the ability of weapons to kill more people more easily and the better mobility of armies which is mainly why more deaths occurred in the 20th century than any other century before it.

Answer 5

I think it is because different cultures have been able to branch out more and therefore come into contact with other cultures that differ from their own. The result being conflict and war.
People have always had weapons, there has always been intolerance, and various religions. Money has always caused conflict, the main difference is that people are more apt to branch out now, and thus the scale of these conflicts increase.

Answer 6

i don't think of so. this is in basic terms rumour. See, what i imagine has handed off is the human beings partaking in the finished ritual element at the same time as they ought to spin round or be in total darkness is that- a million. They were provided that apprehensive that they ended up knocking themselves out attempting to interrupt out (good day, it occurs) 2. They were dizzy & fell over & damage themselves i do not truly imagine someone got here out of the reflect and were given the human beings who've ever supposedly been harmed throughout those Bloody Mary tricks, yet replaced into self inflicted (probable by technique of coincidence) out of worry/state of minf/dizziness and so on.

Answer 7

Religion has changed very little and if any thing grown more tolerent.
There is no material proit in modern war- they are very expensive
The human population is at it's highest point in history, people can communicate with more people easier so why woudnt there be more disagreements.

Answer 8

Industrialization leads to a higher sustainable population and more efficient weaponry. Put the two together and you get massive bloodshed.

Answer 9

Just living human kind at loss and stranded on planet earth.
Had been making a monkey out of themselves in "Planet of Apes" with one say "Me Tarzan" while the other say "You Jane " on planet earth.

Answer 10

I don't know what to think of this unless and until you tell me who has the authority to "mark" a century this way or that way.