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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890s#Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890s#Wars The 1890s were a rare break in great power conflict, but they were only a few
by btheshoe 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890s#Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890s#Wars
The 1890s were a rare break in great power conflict, but they were only a few decades after the civil war, Imperialism was in full swing, and there were still plenty of wars. In general, there has not been a more peaceful time than the present.
- geocrasher 5y agoIndeed. My point was that the world had not yet been permanently scarred by global conflict. That's all.
- sandworm101 5y agoThere were plenty of world wars before WWI. WWI was simply the first in which America played a major role. The empires fought each other across the planet long before America was a thing. Nearly every country was repeatedly involved in these conflicts. War was not an unussual thing then nor now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars "The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War "The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) is widely considered to be the first global conflict in history, and was a struggle for world supremacy between Great Britain and France."
- watwut 5y agoAmerica played large role in its own civil war. And in smaller wars with Mexico and what not before.
- crossroadsguy 5y agoRare break for the West you mean? While the West was breaking, instigating, looting, murdering people in rest of the world like business as usual?