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Table 4.2

The Stability of the Multipolar System, 1910–1945

Central Wars Great Wars Small Wars Duration
(Days)

Deaths

Total

Italian-Turkish War

(#97)

386 20,000

First World
War (#106)

1,567 8,578,031

Russo-Polish War

(#109)

613 100,000

Franco-Turkish

War (#116)

720 40,000

Manchurian War

(#118)

109 3,200

Second Sino-

Japanese (#121)

521 60,000

Conquest of

Ethiopian (#127)

220 20,000

3. Russo-Polish War (#109) (2/14/1919–10/18/1920)


4. Franco-Turkish War (#116) (11/1/1919–10/20/1921)


5. Manchurian War (#118) (8/17/1929–12/3/1929)


6. Second Sino-Japanese War (#121), between China and Japan
   (12/19/1931–5/22/1933)


7. Conquest of Ethiopia (#127) (10/3/1935–5/9/1936)


8. Third Sino-Japanese War (#130) (7/7/1937–12/6/1941)


9. Changkufeng War (#133), between the Soviet Union and Japan
   (7/29/1938–8/11/1938)


10. Nomonhan War (#136), between the Soviet Union, Mongolia, and
    Japan (5/11/1939–9/16/1939)


11. Second World War (#139), between Hungary, Belgium, France, Yugo-
    slavia, Finland, Norway, Canada, United States, United Kingdom,
    Netherland, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Brazil, Italy, Australia,
    New Zealand, the Soviet Union, Germany, Poland, France, Japan,
    Mongolia, China, South Africa, and Ethiopia (9/1/1939–8/14/1945)


12. Russo-Finnish War (#142) (11/30/1939–3/12/1940)


13. Franco-Thai War (#145) (12/1/1940–1/28/1941)

Table 4.2 shows the degree of stability of the multipolar system of

1910–1945.

(continued)