World War II
World War II, also known as World War II, also known as the World Anti- Fascist War, took place from 1939 to September 2, 1945. It was based on Nazi Germany, the Japanese Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy. The fascist axis state and the Kingdom of Hungary, the Kingdom of Romania, the Kingdom of Bulgaria and other servant states are on one side, and the anti-fascist alliance and the world's anti-fascist forces are on the other side in the second global war. The war ranged from Europe to Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and 61 countries and regions with more than 2 billion people were involved in the war. According to incomplete statistics, there were more than 90 million civilian casualties in the war, and economic losses amounted to more than 5 trillion U.S. dollars. It was the largest world war in human history. The war finally ended with the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Republic of China and other anti-fascist countries and the people of the world defeated the fascist invaders and won world peace and progress.
Who is the biggest winner of the World War? From a comprehensive objective perspective, in World War II, the number one winner should be the United States, the second place should be the Soviet Union, and the third place would be China.
After the end of World War I, the United States has risen. Among the many Western powers, the United States has one of the best overall national strength and military strength. After the Nazi head of state Hitler came to power, before he launched World War II, he was very afraid of the United States. At that time, the world's recognized first and second powers were not the United States, but the old European powers Britain and France. As for Germany, which was defeated in World War I, it was still trying to climb up. After the end of the Second World War, although France was a victorious country, it was already drained by Germany; although the United Kingdom did not fall, it also faced many problems such as reconstruction. The Americans, however, seized this rare opportunity in a century. After World War II, they became a superpower in the world. Not only was the military the world's rarest adversary, but the economy also reached the peak of the world. In just a few decades, the United States has never been "incoming" and has become the world's largest and biggest winner. Moreover, since the Second World War, the advantages that the United States has achieved through victory have continued to this day.
The United States did not participate in the war at the beginning of the Second World War. It was not until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that the United States really participated in the Second World War (December 7, 1941). From participating in the war to the end, the United States participated in the war for a total of three and eight months. Why did the United States enter the war so late? Because the war did not spread to the United States at the beginning, providing weapons and equipment to various countries to make money behind the scenes was what the United States did in the early days of World War II. Although the United States participated in the war, the number of casualties was not high, because the war did not spread to the United States, and it was almost 200,000 to 300,000 with Britain and France. There were 3.5 million casualties on the German side, and Italy may be the country with the best luck in World War II. They surrendered shortly after joining the war. Italian soldiers often surrendered, so they suffered a maximum of 90,000 casualties during World War II. One of the axis countries of the Second World War, Japan suffered only about 1.85 million casualties, of which nearly 500,000 were affected by the US atomic bomb. This is also related to the fact that the war was not carried out on Japanese territory.
The First World War belonged to the infighting of the European powers. Britain and France were victorious, and Germany was defeated. In general, it caused the collective decline of the European powers such as Britain, France and Germany. The world economic center began to shift from Europe to the Americas. The biggest beneficiary is the United States, followed by Japan and Russia. The United States sold resources and weapons to the warring parties and made a lot of money. The main battlefield of the two world wars was in Europe, far away from the United States. During the Second World War, although Japan attacked the Aleutian Islands and bombed the United States with airships, its impact on the United States was almost negligible. The homelands of other participating countries were severely damaged, but the United States was not affected by the war from beginning to end. In other words, compared with other countries participating in the war, the United States has the lowest cost of war, and the benefits obtained are almost pure benefits. The First World War broke out in July 1914 and ended in November 1918. The Americans joined the war on April 6, 1917. The First World War lasted 4 years and 4 months. The Americans only fought for a year and a half, and they entered the war only when they saw Germany's defeat. If you don't participate in the war, the war will end, and you won't be able to grab the fruits of victory. U.S. money and goods in World War IIThe capital allowed the Soviets to clashed with Germany in front of the battlefield. It was not until June 1944 that the Soviets had already entered the German mainland before launching the Normandy landing and sending troops directly to the war. If the United States does not initiate a landing war, the Soviet Union will monopolize Germany. World War II lasted four years, and the United States sent troops directly to Europe for less than a year. In short, the United States has a particularly good grasp of the opportunity to participate in the war, which can minimize losses and obtain the most fruits of victory.
Let’s take a look at the Soviet Union again. Although the Soviet Union was a victorious country in World War II, the price it paid was extremely heavy. According to incomplete statistics, a World War II caused the Soviet Union to lose 30% of its national power, and 20%. The population and resource consumption are countless. By the end of World War II, the population of the Soviet Union was only 167 million people. There were almost no complete families in the Soviet Union at that time. The ratio of men to women in the Soviet Union was seriously imbalanced for a long time after the war. Its main battlefield is in the western part of the Soviet Union. And here is the main gathering place of the Soviet population and industrial area, and it is a veritable center of the Soviet Union, which means that most of the wealth of the Soviet Union was unprecedentedly destroyed in World War II. But even if it was the second winner, the Soviet Union's gains in World War II were plentiful. Since the Soviet Union began to send troops from the eastern front to attack the German capital Berlin, they have plundered a lot of land. Every time the Soviet army took an inch of land, it would be included in its sphere of influence. Until the end, the Soviet sphere of influence has been extended from Belarus, Ukraine and other places to East Berlin in Germany. In the latter part of World War II, the Soviets formed an extremely large "red camp" through the use of war to support war and at the same time using political output, which was fully capable of contending with Western powers. At this time, the Soviet Union had become the second giant in the world. It can be said that World War II created the Soviet Union, making them a powerful country that has never entered the world. It is indeed a big winner, but the cost and price it has paid far exceeds that of the United States.
The Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression made its great contribution to the world's anti-fascist war while also achieving the independence and liberation of the Chinese nation—it changed China. Mao Zedong once pointed out that from the 1840s to the mid-1940s in my country, for a total of 105 years, almost all large, medium and small imperialist countries in the world have invaded our country and beat us, except for the last time, the War of Resistance Against Japan. Except for the surrender of Japanese imperialism due to domestic and foreign reasons, no war did not end with our country’s defeat and the signing of a treaty of insult to power. The world anti-fascist war, including the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, was the most significant historical event of the 20th century. The Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression lasted 14 years, three and a half times as long as the Soviet Union and the United States engaged in anti-fascist wars, and two and a half times as long as Britain engaged in anti-fascist wars. In the 10 years before the Pacific War broke out, China The people's independence and persistence in fighting the Japanese invading army is the only anti-fascist battlefield in the East; the Chinese people have achieved great results in the protracted war of resistance, and the total number of casualties and prisoners killed by the Japanese army accounted for more than 70% of the Japanese army's casualties in World War II; Japan was defeated Later, the Japanese forces that surrendered to China accounted for more than 50% of the total Japanese forces surrendered overseas. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chinese soldiers and civilians suffered more than 35 million casualties, direct economic losses of more than 100 billion US dollars, and indirect economic losses of more than 500 billion US dollars... The development opportunities of the two industrial revolutions were lost, so that the war of resistance against Japan could only use the productivity and combat effectiveness of the agricultural age to counter the productivity and combat effectiveness of the industrial age. And had to bear heavy losses of personnel on the battlefield.
World War II enhanced the understanding and unity of all strata of Chinese society and laid a good foundation for the reconstruction of China's socialist structure and economic development. The victory of World War II improved China's international status and attacked the fascist forces. However, the victory of the War of Resistance brought China not only this, but also a more internal gain, which was that the Chinese nation gained enough confidence to rebuild a brand new country. The victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan shows that the awakened Chinese nation is not afraid of battle and sacrifice. She is determined and capable to save the motherland from peril in the "most dangerous time" of "subjecting the country and extinction". From then on, no imperialist country dared to regard China as an object of oppression, and the Chinese nation began to control its own destiny. In this sense, the War of Resistance Against Japan can be regarded as a great turning point for the Chinese nation from decline to rejuvenation. The Chinese military and civilian’s final victory in the war against Japan not only defended the Chinese nation’sSurvive, and has made due contributions to the victory of the world’s anti-fascist war and to the progress of mankind. As Comrade Mao Zedong said: "The great Chinese War of Resistance is not only a matter of China, the East, but also a matter of the world." China's major contribution to the victory of the world's anti-fascist war will never be lost. In the wars in human history, there are almost no real winners! Take the two world wars as an example. It's not that one of the parties is exhausted before the winner is decided! The winners of World War II, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: China, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France are all; except France, the other four countries are the main victors. Although France had a solid Maginot line in World War II, Bypassed by the German army, France surrendered Hitler, a veritable defeated general, somehow "mixed" into the permanent member of the victorious country. From this point of view, France can be described as the "biggest winner"! Also the biggest joke!
The country with the largest number of deaths in World War II: the Soviet Union
There were 26.8 million deaths in the Soviet Union in World War II, of which 8.9 million were killed in the regular army and the rest were civilians. The death toll of Soviet soldiers in World War II has always been a very controversial issue. Because during the Great Patriotic War, many civilian men and women were temporarily enlisted into the Red Army, so it is difficult to tell whether they were regular soldiers or civilians or militias, so there were soldiers deaths. There are two versions of 8.9 million and 14 million, but the West agrees with the former. Among them, about 8.8 million soldiers died in the Soviet-German battlefield; fewer than 10,000 died in the Soviet-Japanese battlefield; nearly 90,000 died in the Soviet-Finland battlefield. There is no doubt that the Soviet Union was the country with the most deaths in the Second World War. China ranked second in the number of deaths in the Second World War, about 18 million, of which about 1.48 million soldiers died and the rest were civilians. Ranking of deaths by countries in World War II: 1. Soviet Union 60 million; 2. China 35 million; 3. Germany 28 million; 4. Poland 7.5 million; 5. Japan 6.9 million; 6. Yugoslavia 4.7 million; 7. United States 1.9 million; 8. Britain 1.6 million; 9. Italy 700,000; 10. France 500,000. The Second World War was the largest war in human history. It was mainly launched by fascists led by Germany, Italy and Japan. 61 countries and regions and more than 2 billion people were involved in the war. The combat area is 22 million square meters. The number of casualties reached hundreds of millions of kilometers, of which the Soviet Union suffered the most. The Soviet Union lost more than 1 million soldiers from the first year of the German offensive, and almost occupied Moscow and . Under such cruel conditions, the Soviet people did not give up, and invested a lot of soldiers to participate in the defense of Moscow. In the war on , one batch after another died, what caused the Soviet people not to be afraid of death! First, political encouragement and propaganda of patriotism. At that time, the two sides became popular. The Soviet Union called on the people of the whole country to resist the invaders. Second, if you are not a subjugated slave, if you are captured, you will not say whether you live or die, and your family will be hurt. It is better to give it a go. There may be a way out. Third, Russia is a fighting nation, and their performance in the war is truly admirable.
The defeated Germany is facing huge war reparations. According to the resolution of the Yalta Conference, Germany should compensate 20 billion US dollars; of which, 10 billion will be given to the Soviet Union, 8 billion will be given to the United States, and the remaining 2 billion will be given to other countries until 2014 It was only half a century later that Germany basically paid off its foreign debt. Germany was divided into two parts: , East Germany, , and West Germany. West Germany was in charge of the United States, East Germany was in charge of the Soviet Union, and some areas were occupied by Britain and France. Therefore, the East and West Germany faced each other and confronted each other for about half a century. It was not until the 1990s that the East and the West were reunified, and Germany was forced to accept many conditions before being allowed to reunify by the international community. But the eternal pain in the hearts of Germans is the loss of East Prussia. For Germans, East Prussia is the birthplace of Germany, the symbol of Germany’s glory in the past, and the soul of Germany. Now it has become the Memel region of Lithuania. And Kaliningrad in Russia. In World War II, Germany lost nearly 7 million adult men. The male labor force in Germany was almost completely lost. A large number of captured German soldiers were sent to the Soviet Union to do hard work and died there. The male to female ratio was seriously imbalanced. The Germans committed war crimes that are unforgivable and ultimately sufferedThe price of Germany was still glorious before World War II, and its international image plummeted after World War II. Germany's personal experience tells us that the cost of war is huge, regardless of whether the victorious country or the defeated country, so we must unswervingly develop ourselves to resolutely defend national peace.
