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Specific World Disasters
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1840’s – Ireland
• Great potato famine is one of the worst famines on record, in terms of percentage dead
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1914-1918
• WWI • Affected large parts of the world
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1918-1919
• Spanish Flu Epidemic• The Spanish Influenza was one of the last
epidemics to significantly affect the mortality in industrial countries.
• It was called Spanish Influenza because the first reports of the illness were from Spain.
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1930’s
• The depression• One of the most well known economic
recessions in history. • There was a drop in income for several
countries but what caused the most suffering was the high unemployment and the social problems linked to this high unemployment
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1932
• The Soviet Union was struck by a devastating famine in 1932-1933. The famine mortality was high in large areas stretching from Ukraine, Northern Caucasus to Kazakhstan.
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1934-1945
• WWII
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1959-1962
• In China in 1958 Mao launched a major economic reform campaign called “the great leap forward”. It was followed by a devastating famine, in which some 15 million are estimated to have died.
• This is probably the worst famine, in terms of the number of people that died.
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1975-1979
• Cambodia• The policies of the Khmer Rouge led to mass
deaths of Cambodians on a horrific scale, both through famine and through executions
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1994
• Rwanda• It is estimated that between a half a million
and one million were killed in a few months in the Rwanda genocide
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1997
• The Asian Economic Crisis• A financial crisis hit several East Asian
countries in 1997. It is seen as a temporary income drop for countries like Indonesia. Malaysia and South Korea