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==Name== | ==Name== | ||
In the [[Commonwealth]] nations, official histories of the various militaries universally refer to the conflict as the '''Second World War'''. This style also follows literaly translations of other nations' official designation for the conflict, e.g. '' | In the [[Commonwealth]] nations, official histories of the various militaries universally refer to the conflict as the '''Second World War'''. This style also follows literaly translations of other nations' official designation for the conflict, e.g. ''Zweiter Weltkrieg'' in German. The official histories of the United States armed forces refer to the conflict as "World War II". | ||
Although its nomenclature suggests a pan-global conflict, much of the world was unaffected directly by the conflict, with significant concentrations of activity in the European, north African, Russian, and Pacific theatres. | Although its nomenclature suggests a pan-global conflict, much of the world was unaffected directly by the conflict, with significant concentrations of activity in the European, north African, Russian, and Pacific theatres. | ||
==Causes and Diplomacy== | ==Causes and Diplomacy== | ||
Revision as of 16:32, 15 December 2007
World War II 1939-1945
Name
In the Commonwealth nations, official histories of the various militaries universally refer to the conflict as the Second World War. This style also follows literaly translations of other nations' official designation for the conflict, e.g. Zweiter Weltkrieg in German. The official histories of the United States armed forces refer to the conflict as "World War II".
Although its nomenclature suggests a pan-global conflict, much of the world was unaffected directly by the conflict, with significant concentrations of activity in the European, north African, Russian, and Pacific theatres.
Causes and Diplomacy
Land Warfare
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
China
Southwest Pacific
Submarines
Air War
Economics
Financing
Production
Manpower
War Crimes
Holocaust
- see Holocaust
- see Holocaust denial
- see Turkey and the Holocaust
Resistance
Results and Aftermath
Japan
Total Japanese military fatalities between 1937 and 1945 were 2.1 million; most came in the last year of the war. Starvation or malnutrition-related illness accounted for roughly 80 percent of Japanese military deaths in the Philippines, and 50 percent of military fatalities in China. The aerial bombing of a total of 65 Japanese cities appears to have taken a minimum of 400,000 and possibly closer to 600,000 civlian lives (over 100,000 in Tokyo alone, over 200,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, and 80,000-150,000 civilian deaths in the battle of Okinawa). Civilian death among settlers who died attempting to return to Japan from Manchuria in the winter of 1945 were probably around 100,000.[1]