2nd world war

• العربية • Български • Català • Čeština • Deutsch • Eesti • Ελληνικά • Español • Esperanto • فارسی • Français • 한국어 • Հայերեն • Hrvatski • Bahasa Indonesia • Italiano • עברית • ქართული • Македонски • Nederlands • 日本語 • Norsk bokmål • پنجابی • Polski • Português • Русский • Shqip • Slovenčina • Српски / srpski • Suomi • Svenska • Українська • اردو • Tiếng Việt • 中文 Compiling or estimating the numbers of Oxford Companion to World War II maintain that "casualty statistics are notoriously unreliable". The sources for the casualties of the individual nations do not use the same methods, and civilian deaths due to starvation and disease make up a large proportion of the civilian deaths in China and the Soviet Union. The losses listed here are actual deaths; hypothetical losses due to a decline in births are not included with the total dead. The distinction between military and civilian casualties caused directly by warfare and The Human losses by country Total deaths by country Death toll of World War II & military wounded by country Country Total population 1/1/1939 Military deaths from all causes Civilian deaths due to military activity and crimes against humanity Civilian deaths due to war-related famine and disease Total deaths Deaths as% of 1939 population Average Deaths as% of 1939 population Military wounded 1,073,000 30,000 30,000 2.80 2.80 NA 6,968,000 39,700 700 40,400 0.58 0.58 39,803 6,653,000 Included with Germany Included with Germany (See table below.) (See table...

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More than one million Australian men served in the war out of a total population of around seven million. Although it was ill-prepared for war, the Australian government soon dispatched squadrons and personnel to serve with the For the remainder of the war, the Australian war effort was concentrated in Papua and New Guinea [ ] The The colonial government's demands on the Congolese population provoked strikes, riots and other forms of resistance. These were repressed, often violently, by the colonial authorities. The Congo's comparative prosperity during the conflict led to a wave of post-war immigration from Belgium, bringing the white population to 100,000 by 1950, as well as a period of industrialisation and urbanisation that continued throughout the 1950s. Rwanda-Urundi [ ] Belgium's Bhutan [ ] Although Bolivia [ ] At the time of World War II, On 10 September 1939, Canada likewise declared war on Germany, Over the course of the war, 1.1 million Canadians served in the Canadian forces deployed to the United Kingdom in 1939. One corps fought in the Italian campaign while the other fought in Northwest Europe beginning with the During the war, Canada was subject to direct attack in the The war had significant cultural, political and economic effects on Canada, including the Caribbean Islands [ ] Main articles: Over the course of World War II, the United States assumed Britain's defense responsibilities in the Caribbean. In September 1940, the two countries agreed to the Len...

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When Granted, Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 triggered declarations of war from France and the United Kingdom, formally starting World War II. But that event was only the final straw in a series of events. Various other economic and political challenges had been building up tension for years. This resource examines the era between World Wars I and II—also known as the interwar period—breaking down those issues that set the stage for the world’s second and far deadlier The Treaty of Versailles In 1919, representatives from more than two dozen countries gathered in France to draft peace treaties that would set the terms for the end of World War I. However, in a break with tradition, those on the losing end of the conflict were excluded from the conference. This particularly stirred resentment in Germany, the largest and most powerful defeated country. Without German input, the victors—led by the United States, France, and the United Kingdom—decided what peace would look like after the conflict. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson wanted to structure peace according to his framework for preventing future global conflicts. This framework, known as the Fourteen Points, advocated for the establishment of an international organization called the League of Nations, which would be staked on the idea of collective security, meaning the invasion of one country would be treated like a threat to the entire group. Wilson’s Fourteen Points also called for arms reductions and Meanwhile, F...

Explore a timeline of key events before and during World War II. The mass murder of Europe’s Jews took place in the context of WWII. As German troops invaded and occupied more and more territory in Europe, the Soviet Union, and North Africa, the regime’s racial and antisemitic policies became more radical, moving from persecution to genocide. • September 18, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria. • October 2, 1935–May 1936 Fascist • October 25–November 1, 1936 Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation on October 25. On November 1, the Rome-Berlin • November 25, 1936 Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact. The pact is directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement. • July 7, 1937 Japan invades China. • November 26, 1937 Italy joins Germany and Japan in the Anti-Comintern Pact. • March 11–13, 1938 Germany incorporates Anschluss. • September 29, 1938 Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the • March 14–15, 1939 Under German pressure, the Slovaks declare their independence and form a Slovak Republic. The Germans occupy the dismantled Czech lands in violation of the Munich agreement and form the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. • March 31, 1939 France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state. • April 7–15, 1939 Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania. • August 23, 1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a • September 1, 1939 • Septe...

World War II, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history, involved more than 50 nations and was fought on land, sea and air in nearly every part of the world. Also known as the Second World War, it was caused in part by the economic crisis of the Great Depression and by political tensions left unresolved following the end of World War I. The war began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and raged across the globe until 1945, when Japan surrendered to the United States after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By the end of World War II, an estimated 60 to 80 million people had died, including up to 55 million civilians, and numerous cities in Europe and Asia were reduced to rubble. Among the people killed were 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler’s diabolical “Final Solution,” now known as the Holocaust. The legacy of the war included the creation of the United Nations as a peacekeeping force and geopolitical rivalries that resulted in the Cold War. The devastation of the Great War (as Did you know? As early as 1923, in his memoir and propaganda tract "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle), Adolf Hitler had predicted a general European war that would result in "the extermination of the Jewish race in Germany." After Outbreak of World War II (1939) In late August 1939, Hitler and Soviet leader On September 17, Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east. Under attack from both sides, Poland fell quickly, and by early 1940 G...