HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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It was the most destructive conflict in history
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Over 55 million people died
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More than half of those that died were civilians
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The U.S. had the highest number of causalities
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe than any previous war.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Attack on Pearl Harbor-December 7, 1941 Click on the link below to watch a video about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Detailed explanation-3: -World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China.
Detailed explanation-4: -When the European war began in earnest on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland, the U.S. Army ranked seventeenth among armies of the world in size and combat power, just behind Romania. It numbered 190, 000 soldiers. (It would grow to 8.3 million in 1945, a 44-fold increase.)