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“The Cost Of WWII” |
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“The Cost of WWII”
World War II was a Global military conflict because of lives lost and
material destruction. It was the most devastating war in history. It began
1939 because of a European conflict between Germany and Anglo-French
coalition and eventually widened and included most of the nations of the
world. It ended in 1945, leaving a new world order by the United States and
the USSR.
World War II’s basic statistics say that by far it was the greatest war
in history in terms of human and material resources expended. In all 61
countries with 1.7 billion people, three-fourths of the world’s population
took part in the war. A total of 110 million people were mobilized for
military service, more than half of those by three countries: the USSR (22-30
million), Germany (17 million), and the United States (16 million). The
largest number of people on duty at any one time were approximately: USSR
(12,500,000), U.S. (12,245,000), Germany (10,938,000), British Empire and
Commonwealth (8,720,000), Japan (7,193,000), and China (5,000,000).
The war’s vast and chaotic sweep made uniform record keeping
impossible. Some governments lost control of the data.
A rough consensus has been reached on the total cost of the war. In
terms of money spent, it has been more than $1 trillion, which makes it more
expensive than all other wars combined. The number of humans lost, not
including the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust who were indirect
victims of the war, is estimated at about 55 million dead- 25 million of those
military and 30 million civilian.
Economic Statistics
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