WARS OF YEAR 1900 - 1950

• 1904 - 1905 Russo-Japanese War

Below: Map during Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)

• 1905 Revolution of 1905 in Russia

Below: Gory Sunday during the revolution in Russia (1905)

1911 - 1912 Turco-Italian War fought over Libya

Below: Turkish soldiers marching for war

• 1912 - 1913 Two Balkan Wars

Below: Balkan soldiers and artillery deployed for war

Two Balkan Wars are fought for control of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire

• 1914 - 1918 World War I

Below: War scene in World War I

World War I, initially in Europe, then worldwide…

• 1916 Easter Rising rebellion in Ireland

Below: Map of Ireland (click map to enlarge)

• 1917 - 1918 Russian Revolution

Below: Tragedy at Petrograd (former name of St. Petersburg) during Russian revolution (July 1917)

• 1917 - 1920 Estonian Liberation War

Below: Front liner Estonian Soldiers in the trench fighting for independence

• 1918 Finnish Civil War

Below: Red Guard well equipped with deadly 7,62 mm machine gun

Fought between “the reds” (rebellious Socialists) and “the whites” (anti-Socialists) in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Germany intervened on the side of the Whites.

• 1918 - 1922 Russian Civil War

Below: Soldiers posing over Bolsheviks corpse during the Civil War of Russia

Fought between “the reds” (Communists) and “the whites” (tsarists) directly after the Bolshevist Revolution. US, France and Britain also intervened on the side of the whites.

• 1918 Polish-Czech war in Teschen Silesia

Below: Map of Poland and Czech Republic (click map to enlarge)

• 1918 Viena expedition

Below: Map of Finnish advance military movement in capturing White Karelia during Viena Expidition

• 1918 - 1919 Poland and Lwow against West Ukrainian Republic

Below: Division and Borders of West Ukrainian National Republic (1918)

• 1918 - 1919 Great Poland Uprising

Below: Picture of Great Polish Soldiers

Provinz Posen against Germany

• 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War

Below: Picture of Afghan Soldiers at Jamrud fort near Khyber Pass

• 1919 First Silesian Uprising

Below: Map and location of Silesia

• 1919 Aunus expedition

Below: Finnish assaulting East Karelia in Aunus Expedition

• 1919 - 1921 Polish-Soviet war

Below: Map showing countries involved in Polish-Soviet War

Poland and Ukrainian Peoples Republic against Soviets

• 1919 - 1921 Anglo-Irish War

Below: Funeral procession march for British Officers killed in battle during Irish War of Independence

Anglo-Irish War also known as the Irish War of Independence

• 1919 - 1922 “Turkish War of Independence”

Below: Turkish pilots during the Turkish War of Independence (1922)

• 1920 - 1922 Second Greco-Turkish War

Below: City caught on fire and destroyed in the Second Greco-Turkish War

• 1920 Second Silesian Uprising

Below: Poles being executed against a prison wall by Germans

Silesian Poles against Germany

• 1921 Third Silesian Uprising

Below: Corpse excavated by British and Italian Officials for atrocity investigation (Silesia 1921)

Silesian Poles against Germany

• 1922 - 1923 Irish Civil War

Below: Ireland troops marching to war in Irish Civil War

• 1932 - 1935 Chaco War

Below: Map of Bolivia and Paraguay in Chaco War

War between Bolivia and Paraguay

• 1934 - 1936 Northern Expedition by Kuomintang

Below: North-West Army of China assembling for war outbreak by Kuomintang (Chinese Political Party)

• 1935 - 1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War

Below: Italian troops strengthening defense line position in Ethiopia (1935)

• 1936 - 1939 Spanish Civil War

Below: Spanish Government Troops commence an attack against rebels

• 1937 - 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War

Below: Japanese soldier beheading Chinese civilian

• 1939 - 1945 World War II

Below: DVD Case with mini-clip photos of World War II on cover

• 1939 - 1940 Winter War

Below: Sniper fully covered with thick white coat aiming and ready to shoot

Part of WW II, Finland against Soviet Union

• 1941 - 1944 Continuation of WW II

Below: Map showing land portion yield by Finnish to the Soviet Union

Finland against Soviet Union

• 1944 - 1945 Lapland War

Below: Damaged armor-car parked besides German corpses in Berlin (1945)

Part of WW II, Finland against Germany

• 1941 - 1945 Pacific War

Below: Pacific War Map showing Allied and Japanese involvement in the war (click map to enlarge)

Part of WW II, Japan against Australia and the United States

• 1941 - 1942 Border war between Ecuador and Peru

Below: Map of southern Ecuador and north-eastern Peru showing main airfields (click map to enlarge)

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