Who was the shortest war on record between and how long did it last?
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British ships bombed the island of Zanzibar at \n9 am on August 27, 1896. At 9.45 am Zanzibar surrendered.\n\n45 minutes.
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September 1, 1939 for the war in Europe, December 7th 1941 United States enters World War II in both Europe and Asia.\nGermany declared war on the United States on December 10th, 1941.Germany surrenders May 8th 1945, Japan bombed on both August 6 and again on the 9th formally surrenders Sept 1, 1945.
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maybe something abut how they are still at war and there have been many minor skirmishes or incidence over the years, there was a great program on the history channel about that, alot of stuff I didn't know.  sorry I don't remember the name of it.
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World War I, also known as the First World War and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations, War to End All Wars was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice (cessation of hostilities) on November 11, 1918. The label World War I or First World War did not come into general use until after the outbreak of World War II in 1939, and until then it was commonly known as the Great War or the World War. The war was fought by the Allied Powers on one side, and the Central Powers on the other, resulting in eventual victory for the Allies. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers or involved so many in the field of battle. By its end, the war had become the bloodiest war in recorded history, though this record was soon to be superseded by World War II.\n\nAmongst Western countries, World War I became infamous for trench warfare along the Western Front, involving a system of opposing trenches (separated by a "No Man's Land") running from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. More than 9 million soldiers died on the various battlefields, and nearly that many more in the participating countries' home fronts on account of food shortages and genocide committed under the cover of various civil wars and internal conflicts. In World War I, only some 5% of the casualties (directly caused by the war) were civilian - in World War II, this figure approached 50%.\n\nUltimately, World War I created a decisive break with the old world order that had emerged after the Napoleonic Wars, as modified by the mid-19th century national revolutions, the processes of European national unification and European colonialism. Three European land empires were shattered and subsequently dismembered to varying degrees: the German, the Austro-Hungarian and the Russian. In the Balkans and the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire experienced the same fate. Three European imperial dynasties, represented by the Hohenzollern, the Hapsburg and the Romanov families in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia respectively, also fell during the war.\n\nWorld War I witnessed the first advent of Communism as a means of government in Russia. The following decades would see the transformation of the old Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a global superpower. In the east, the demise of the Ottoman Empire paved the way for a modern democratic successor state, Turkey, in the core region of Anatolia, in addition to a number of successor states and territories throughout the Middle East. In Central Europe, the new states of Czechoslovakia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Yugoslavia were born and Austria, Hungary and Poland were re-created. Shortly after the war, in 1923, Fascists came to power in Italy; in 1933, 15 years after the war, Nazism took over Germany. Problems unresolved or created by the war would be highly important factors in the outbreak, within 20 years, of World War II.\n\n\n\nCauses:\n\nOn June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student. The Archduke was there to assert imperial authority over a disputed province. Princip was supported by pan-Serbian nationalists, with links to the Serbian military. Though this assassination is usually considered the immediate trigger for the war, its origins can be traced back to the complex web of alliances and counterbalances that developed between the various European powers after 1871.\n\n\nReasons and responsibilities\nThe reasons for the outbreak of World War I are a complicated issue; there are many factors which intertwine. Some examples are:\n\nFervent and uncompromising nationalism \nUnresolved previous disputes \nThe intricate system of alliances \nConvoluted and fragmented governance \nDelays and misunderstandings in diplomatic communications \nThe arms races of the previous decades. \nRigidity in military planning
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Athens\n\nThe Peloponnesian War began in 431 BC between the Athenian Empire (or The Delian League) and the Peloponnesian League which included Sparta and Corinth. The war was documented by Thucydides, an Athenian general and historian, in his work History of the Peloponnesian War. Most of the extant comedies of Aristophanes were written during this war, and poke fun at the generals and events. The war lasted 27 years, with a 6-year truce in the middle, and ended with Athens' surrender in 404 BC.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponesian_war
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While this holds true if you preface your search of history by saying, "How many wars have there been," it unfortunately is a slanted argument that purposely ignores peace-time.  See, if you look at every recorded year that contained war, you'll otherwise have to note that during that year, not EVERY nation or EVERY group of people on Earth was at war.  While the war you would be pointing out was going on, several other locations were enjoying long, sustained, peace.  This equally holds true up until about the last two centuries when world wars and vast alliances add complexity to the comparison.\n\nSo, actually, there has been more peace than there has been war, if measured in quantitive amounts, even though war has almost constantly been taking place since the beginning of written history and most likely before hand.\n\nWith that much peace to draw from, how come we still do not have a working template for it?  Well, peace involves compromise.  As nice as compromise sounds when solving problems, there is an old adage that remarks, "You know it's a good compromise when both sides are unhappy."  Laughable though it may be, to whatever degree it holds true or to what ever degree peoples perceive it to be true, it is sometimes in a group's best interests to avoid compromise, thinking they are steering their own destinies.  There are many ways to avoid compromise.  War is one of them.\n\nHence, there are ways for peace to happen.  It is simply far more difficult make it happen.  Most peace happens on its own.  The way to MAKE peace, then, is to figure out ways to avoid going to war.
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war has no boundaries\n:-3
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The Spanish-American war was NOT faught 1897-1900. It was fought in 1898-- it lasted 3 months. America won the Phillipines as part of the war treaty. America ruled there until 1946 when the islands were granted independence.
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John Paul Jones:\nSeptember 23, 1779, Jones fought one of the bloodiest engagements in naval history. Jones struggled with the 44-gun Royal Navy frigate Serapis, and although his own vessel was burning and sinking, Jones would not accept the British demand for surrender, replying, I have not yet begun to fight. More than three hours later, Serapis surrendered and Jones took command.\nHave a great night!
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I doubt there is such a record in any book, my personal best was 18 hours. Didn't want to stop then but had to get some sleep.
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The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South), fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with almost 23,000 casualties.
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A BIG event in history or a biography is usually easiest...The black plague, the revolutionary war (or specific battle...Gettysburg,Antietam etc...), WWI, WWII, Cold War, Vietnam War, Joeseph Stalin, Hitler
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the British Commonwealth, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered in September 1943, Germany in May 1945. The surrender of Japan marked the end of the war, on September 2, 1945.\n\nIt is possible that up to 62 million people died in the war; estimates vary greatly. Most were civilians who died as a result of disease, starvation, genocide, and the aerial bombing of cities. Estimates place deaths in the Soviet Union at around 23 million, while China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing approximately 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million (16%).\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally split into western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers began their road to independence.\n\nKey alliances are formed\nOn September 1, the German invasion of Poland began World War II. Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand all declared war on Germany on September 3. Nepal, Newfoundland, Tonga, South Africa and Canada followed suit within days. On September 17, the Soviets invaded Poland from the East. The following year, the USSR annexed the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) together with parts of Romania, and attacked Finland. The German-Soviet agreement was brought to an end by the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941.\n\nThe United States of America joined the Allies following the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The Declaration by United Nations, on January 1, 1942, officially united 26 nations as Allies. (The Declaration also formed the basis for the United Nations.) The informal Big 3 alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States emerged in the latter half of the war, and their decisions determined Allied strategy around the world.\n\n\nDates of joining Allies\n Poland: 1939, 1 September \n United Kingdom: 1939, 3 September \n Australia: 1939, 3 September \n New Zealand: 1939, 3 September \n France: 1939, 3 September \n Nepal: 1939, 4 September \n Newfoundland: 1939, 4 September \n Tonga: 1939, 4 September \n South Africa: 1939, 6 September \n Canada: 1939, 10 September \n Denmark: 1940, 9 April \n Norway: 1940, 9 April \n Belgium: 1940, 10 May \n Luxembourg: 1940, 10 May \n Netherlands: 1940, 10 May \n Free France: 1940, 18 June \n Greece: 1940, 28 October \n Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1941, 6 April \n Soviet Union: 1941, 22 June \n Tannu Tuva: 1941, 25 June until 1944, 11 October \n Panama: 1941, 7 December \n Philippines: 1941, 7 December \n Costa Rica: 1941, 8 December \n Dominican Republic: 1941, 8 December \n El Salvador: 1941, 8 December \n Haiti: 1941, 8 December \n Honduras: 1941, 8 December \n Nicaragua: 1941, 8 December \n United
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The easiest is probably the Holocaust/World War II there is lots of material to help you out.  Or you could do it on the most succesful(longest surviving) civilization, the Roman Empire.
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None.  Every "race" or tribe has had wars/conflicts since before recorded history.  And just like today, most of the conflicts were over land and resources.\n\nPS.  The Irish have had lots of wars in thier long history.  Just because a country is new does not mean the people are.
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some of them went on for miles.  You need to be more specific.  The trenches in France, Russia, Germany?  By what point in the war?
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Which war are you referring to. If you want an answer, you have to give more information. Click the Add Details link and explain what you are asking.