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1300
Mongol conquests
$ - unknown
Soldiers - 130 thousand
Technology - blast furnace, grenade, maces, lances with a hook and snare, sabers, three-quivered arrows and bow, sinew
Purpose - To retain the loyalty of Genghis khan’s ever-growing army -
1337
100 years War
$ - 10.68 million
Soldiers - 100 thousand (estimation)
Technology - gunpowder artillery
Purpose - the dissatisfaction of Edward III of England with the nonfulfillment by Philip VI of France -
Napoleonic wars
$ - 1.075 billion
Soldiers - 250 thousand
Technology - movement, artillery, firearms, Strategy, infinity weapons, artillery, toxic weapons
Purpose - Napoleonic Wars were caused by the French Revolution -
Opium war ( second )
$ - unknown
Soldiers - unknown
Technology - Trade and Trade policy
Purpose - British trading rights -
World War 1
$ - 151 billion
Soldiers - 70 million
Technology - machine guns, grenades, artillery, submarines, poison gas, warplanes and tanks.
Countries - Germany, Austria-Hungary, kingdom of Bulgaria, Ottoman empire
Purpose - the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. -
World War 2
$ - 4.1 trillion
Soldiers - 300 million
Technology - Radio, Radar, nuclear weapons, pressurized cabins, Synthesized materials
Purpose - political takeover in 1933 of Germany by Adolf Hitler -
Cold War
$ - 8 trillion
Soldiers - unknown
Technology - space technology, portable cameras and recording devices, nuclear power, the internet
Purpose - tensions between the two nations at the end of World War II, the ideological conflict between both the United States and the Soviet Union, the emergence of nuclear weapons, and the fear of communism in the United States -
Vietnam War
$ - 168 billion
Soldiers - 9.087 million
Technology - M-48 tank, with mounted machine guns. Bombs and bombers, missiles, light machine guns
Purpose - the simple belief held by America that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia.
