WW II Casualties: European Theater

Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

WW II Casualties: Pacific Theater

Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

Country Australia Austria Belgium Brazil2 Bulgaria

Men in war 1,000,000 800,000 625,000 40,334 339,760

Battle deaths 26,976 280,000 8,460 943 6,671

Wounded 180,864

WW II 350,117 Casualties
55,5131 4,222 21,878

Canada
China3 Czechoslovakia Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hungary India Italy Japan Netherlands New Zealand

1,086,3437
17,250,521 500,000 20,000,000 2,393,891 3,100,000 9,700,000 280,000 194,000

42,0427
1,324,516 6,6834 4,339 79,047 201,568 3,250,0004 17,024 147,435 32,121 149,4964 1,270,000 6,500 11,6254

53,145
1,762,006 8,017 50,000 400,000 7,250,000 47,290 89,313 64,354 66,716 140,000 2,860 17,000

Norway
Poland Romania South Africa U.S.S.R. United Kingdom

75,000
650,0005 410,056 5,896,000

2,000
664,000 350,0006 2,473 6,115,0004 357,1164

530,000 14,012,000 369,267

United States

16,112,566

291,557

670,846

1. Civilians only. 2. Army and navy figures. 3. Figures cover period July 7, 1937 to Sept. 2, 1945, and concern only Chinese regular troops. They do not include casualties suffered by guerrillas and local military corps. 4. Deaths from all causes. 5. Against Soviet Russia; 385,847 against Nazi Germany. 6. Against Soviet Russia; 169,822 against Nazi Germany. 7. National Defense Ctr., Canadian Forces Hq., Director of History.

Massive Human Dislocations

The U.S. & the U.S.S.R. Emerged as the Worlds Two Superpowers dominating the last half of the 20th century and ushering in the era known as the Cold War-marked by escalating tensions between the two nations

The Bi-Polarization of Europe: The Beginning of the Cold War

The Division of Germany: 1945 - 1990

The Creation of the United Nations

The Nuremberg War Trials:

Nazis face charges for Crimes Against Humanity

Japanese War Crimes Trials

General Hideki Tojo

7 Future American Presidents Served in World War II-part of the Greatest Generation- (l to r) Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, GHW Bush

Cold War Tensions and the Atomic Age amp up the Race for Space and new weapon technologies

Early Computer Technology Results from WW II

Colossus, 1941

Mark I, 1944
Admiral Grace Hooper, 1944-1992 COBOL language

The Emergence of Third World Nationalist Movements in India, Cuba and Palestine are spurred post-WWII

The De-Colonization of European Empires

Sadakos Story and the Legend of the Paper Crane

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