History repeats itself is a common saying.
However, whenever we take a look back in human history, we could only wish that saying to
never come true.
Number 5
The Great Chinese Famine was marked as one of the most devasting three years for the
People of Republic China from 1958 to 1961.
There were numerous factors that caused this devastation.
The main one being drought and very poor weather condition.
With poor weather conditions and natural disaster came radical changes in agriculture.
Social pressure and economic mismanagement also contributed to this devastation.
Many researchers suggested that the Famine was 30% due to natural disaster while 70%
was caused by mismanagement.
The death toll from the Great Chinese Famine was well over 36 million people.
Number 4
Literally meaning "Kill by starvation" in Ukraine had to be added to our list as one
of the worst time in human history.
The event lasted from 1931 to 1932.
Not many people are aware of this atrocity, but Ukraine had suffered from a phase of immense
man-made famine.
This was caused by a long term plan organized by Joseph Stalin (The leader of Soviet Union
from 1922 to 1952) as a way to exterminate the Ukrainian Independence Movement.
Bad economic planning such as cutting back on rationing system to certain cities was
purposely organized.
This famine was described as a genocide and was even compared to the Holocaust, an estimated
2.4 to 7.5 million Ukrainians died as a result.
Number 3
Hiroshima Bombing -When the white flag was raised in Italy and
Germany.
Japan stood alone and refused to surrender.
On August 6th, 1945, the people of Japan suffered the consequences.
The first atomic bomb to ever be used in history was dropped in the city of Hiroshima which
killed 90 000 to 146 000 people, wiping an estimated 90% of its city.
Even after that Japan still refused to surrender.
Three days later, a second atomic bomb was released in the City of Nagasaki in Japan.
The second dropping killed anywhere from 39 000 to 80 000 people.
Decades later people that were victim to the bombing eventually died from radiation burns
and sickness.
People claimed the bombing to have marked the end of WW2.
According to Wikipedia's, it "remains the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in
history."
Number 2
Many of youse knew that this was going to be part of our list and we couldn't have made
it an exception.
The reason being is that the total death toll was far too great to be ignored.
This war was placed in the worst time of history because it had followed after the Great Depression,
Holodomor and was in the midst of the Holocaust.
Just as a refresher, there were two groups of countries that were involved, the axis
powers which were Germany, Italy and Japan versus the Allies: Britain, France, Australia,
Canada, New Zealand, India, The Soviet Union, China and the U.S. it was not hard to guess
who was going to win this.
It was good to hear that the Allies had come out victorious, but sad to hear the number
of total people that died as a result; which were over 60 million people dead from the
combined events of the war.
Number 1
There are many names given for this pandemic, but we will go with Black Death.
For our viewers who are unfamiliar with this, The Black Death is a plague that rampaged
Europe.
Yersinia Pestis is a deadly bacterium which scientist believed to have been the cause
of the deadly plague.
Gerbils or Rats were carriers of this bacteria and they were said to originate from Central
Asia via the Silk Road trade route.
Once it arrived at the harbours, it would spread the bacterium to the citizens which
caused a spider web effect, rapidly infecting more and more people in Europe.
The deadly pandemic is said to be responsible for the death anywhere from 75 to 200 million
people from 1346 to 1353, which caused a massive reduction in the world's population.