THE IMPACT OF THE WAR

World War II was a long and hard military strategy that pitted the Allied countries of USSR, Great Britain, and the US against the Axis countries of Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany. The devastation from the war was overwhelming. Estimates claim that over three-fourths of the world population was involved in the war in some way. 110 million people were selected for military service with half of these recruits coming either from Germany, USSR, or the US. Over 70 million people were killed during World War II. Of this number, approximately 20 million were soldiers and about 40 million were civilians. Statistics estimate that approximately 12 million Jews died in concentration camps. The Allied bombings of Germany caused about 600,000 deaths. It was a war that took almost five years of fighting before the end of the war was over.