Which 2 countries suffered the greatest loss of life in WW2?
Most people are aware that Russia lost millions of people during WW2, but few realize that China had the second largest loss of life. Japan attacked China and was conducting a war of conquest long before the U.S. entered WW2. In fact, the U.S. imposed sanctions against Japan because of China, which resulted in Japan's attack on the U.S. Russia's loss of life is said to be 26.6 million and China's is 20 million. For comparison both the U.S. and England lost a little less than 500,000 each. The battle of Stalingrad stands out as one of the most destructive battles to Russia in WW2. The Rape of Nanking was the worst case of mass murder against China by Japan in WW2.
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Gordon Docherty
Peter Holden, the Soviet Union was formed in 1922.
teacherchicky
I had this exact question days ago but because they gave it to me again today, I received zero points for answering it again!
lls
Carroll Price, ...a lot of surviving vets still call this "leverage." Two wrongs don't make right, but that's the horrid, wasteful nature of war. Unless someone's breaking your back door in, best to always talk things out, if possible
Rafi Manory
Wayne Todd, They had ot one ar.y, The Red Army
Rafi Manory
Ronald Small,
What ate you talking about? USSR has been a major player in WW2
Steve Westlake
There was no Soviet Union during WWll nor is there now. It would help if we had intelligent questions!
Carrie Arnold-Marsh
Another terrible, misleading, question with wrong answer!
Ronald Small
The Soviet Union did not exist during WWII so your answers are all incorrect.
Wayne Todd
I thought the Soviet Union was many countries.
Steve Edwards
Darlene Davidson, I misread the question and thought it said WW1. If that were the case, Germany and Russia would have been correct. I think that’s why that was one of the options.