There are many different types of conflicts like Civil War, Religious War, War of Conquest and War fought for Independence. Some of the major conflicts of the twentieth century have been the Indian-Pakistan War, Vietnam War, Korean War, Russian Civil War, Civil War in China, Gulf War etc. The India-Pakistan war happened because the Muslims thought that it was unfair that the Hindus were put in power of government and they thought that the Hindus would not treat them equally. It was also because each of them thought that their religion was better than the other they were also afraid of competition between religion. It was therefore split into East Pakistan and West Pakistan. The East Pakistan thought that they didn’t have enough help and they felt that they weren’t being treated equally by West Pakistan so as the tension built up, people in East Pakistan decided to fight for their independence. In this war there are three different types of conflicts, these were Civil War, Religious War and War fought for independence. During the partition between these two countries there were a large number of refugees as there’s a huge rush of people moving from one country to another.
There was also a lot of individual fighting among themselves due to different opinions. An example of this is the Civil War in China in the 1940s, there was people who would like to be Communist and some wanted to be Capitalist. Every single person had different opinions about how their country should be run and as time goes by the tension between these people increases and this leads to a war. Each country also has different opinions about their way of running the country like the USA and the USSR called themselves ‘democratic’ but had different meanings of what the word means. The USA believes that people should be free and the USSR believes that people should be equal.
The people who died in the war, early in the century were mainly soldiers, but in late century many innocent civilians died as well as soldiers. More people and soldiers died as the war continued. The war was fought in the city rather than on the battlefields so this involved more people. Nowadays, the technology is more advanced so that involves more killing of innocent people. In this case, many people lost their homes and became refugees. Therefore, the war in the 20th century affected both the lives of innocent civilians and soldiers. So many people were affected because the war style had changed in such a way that it involved not only soldiers but civilians as well, this was because war could be fought from a large distance, bombs could be dropped, tanks were introduced and the medicine saved a lot of the wounded.
