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World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
Chinese casualties of World War II (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Chinese war casualties" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...
The Chinese Kuomintang-led government imposed martial law until 1987. Siege of Changchun: Jilin Province 1948, 23 May – 19 October 1948 120,000 to 160,000 civilian deaths due to starvation [27] [28] [29]
Chinese military personnel killed in World War II (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Chinese casualties of World War II" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
[22] [23] It is considered part of World War II, and often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia. It was the largest Asian war in the 20th century [24] and has been described as "the Asian Holocaust," in reference to the scale of Japanese war crimes against Chinese civilians.
Many of China's urban centers, industrial resources, and coastal regions were occupied by Japan for most of the war. China suffered a large death toll from the war, both military and civilian. The Chinese Nationalist army suffered some 3.2 million casualties, and 17 million civilians died in the crossfire.
The corpse of a Chinese man burned to death by kerosene Dead civilians by one of Nanjing's gates. John Rabe summarized the behavior of Japanese troops in Nanjing in his diaries: I've written several times in this diary about the body of the Chinese soldier who was shot while tied to his bamboo bed and who is still lying unburied near my house.