Belle Époque: A period of Western European history conventionally dated from the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 to the outbreak of World War I around 1914. If you can argue that the above dates are too broad to define "wartime", then you re also arguing that veterans did not deserve wartime pay or … They define a war as a "sustained combat involving substantial fatalities" and institute an arbitrary cutoff of 1000 battle-related deaths. Since the end of WW2, the world has not seen a single day of piece. Thus as defined by the US Congress, the longest period of peacetime was between WWI and WWII, 1921 - 1941, or just 20 years. Otherwise I guess it comes down to your definition of a major war. Their work indicates that there has never been a period of total peace during the time period they study. Arguably the United States hasn't fought a major war since 1945,1953, or 1973 depending on your definition of a … Occurring during the era of the French Third Republic (beginning 1870), it was characterized by optimism, regional peace, economic prosperity and technological, scientific and cultural innovations. The U.S. is officially in its longest expansion, breaking the record of 120 months of economic growth from March 1991 to March 2001, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. The video is mostly about losses during WW2 but in the end they compare WW2 to other wars/conquests throughout history as well as comparing it to the modern day. Here is a bit of trivia. Highly recommend a watch. This is a list of wars they put together. Bulgaria from WW2, even there we were involved in minor fighting but still war was declared, until 2009, this is the biggest period of peace. Then Rousseau would say the longest period of peace in history, would be when man was in a state of nature ( so pre-history). It is CLAIMED that the longest period of WORLDWIDE peace has been 26 days, but in the US, we had no declared wars and no combat deaths between 1818 and 1832. In the climate of the period, especially in Paris, … According to this video, The Fallen of World War II, we are currently living in the "long peace". What would you say was the longest period of sustained peace in recorded history? Even if such a state did coincidentally occur for more than a few minutes, for the vast majority of history most of the globe is unknown. Obviously, I don't mean "world peace". Bulgaria by the way is the only nation in the Balkans, that wasn't involved in a war since WW2, Turkey and Greece were fighting over Cyprus, Yugoslavia was in pieces, Albania and Macedonia were in war 2001.