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WORLD WAR II ended 80 years ago, in 1945. The war lasted six years, from 1939 to 1945, though some would argue that it really began in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of China. It is indisputable, however, that the war was the deadliest in history.
Tens of millions of people died (estimates as to the number of military and civilian fatalities vary widely), of whom six million were Jews killed in the Holocaust. There was destruction of vast territories in Europe and Asia, with the Soviet Union suffering the greatest losses: around 27 million people died and over 7,000 villages and cities destroyed. And in Japan over 200,000 people — mostly civilians — died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
By contrast, other than the attack on Pearl Harbour (a military base), the United States suffered virtually no physical damage, fewer than 500,000 military deaths and only several thousand civilian casualties, mainly of US citizens living abroad.
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