what countries were involved in wwII?

Question

how many casualties were there?
what triggered the war (no hitler answers)?
any other interesting facts about wwII...?

Answer 1

Everybody, that is why it was called a world war. The war started when Hitler invaded Poland in the west, Japan invaded manchuria in the east, Mussilini invaded Ethiopia in the south and Russia invaded Finland in the north. Plenty of fun for everybody.
I beleive the body count estimate is about 60 million..

Answer 2

Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia , Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, , Vichy France, Algeria. Japan, Mongolia, Korea. That's the Axis or most of it. Norway was occupied and raised Troops, Sweden was occupied and raised troops. The Dutch were occupied and raised troops,Czechoslovakia was absorbed and raised troops Among the Sudaten Germans. Yugoslavia was occupied and raised troops, Ethnic Germans joined up in Eastern Soviet Union when the 2d front was opened. You can check up on the Allies. The causality numbers are available but are too large to wrap your mind around. Especially if you consider those who died of starvation by accident or policy particularly in the East Asian and Soviet areas. You want a real number look it up. Its easy to find.

What triggered the war, as a flash point, kind of involves Hitler and is hard to avoid. What started it in the long run is the Treaty of Versailles and the abdication of the Kaiser. An authoritarian society was destroyed by war and all of it social structures were replaced by a Federal republic with out the means to sustain it self against the repeated assaults on public order by right wing law and order adherents and left wing Bolsheviks, with the trade unionists, radical Lutherans, and every thing else milling around in the middle getting in the way. The collapse of the AustroHungarian Empire on one side and the apparent success of the Bolsheviks on the other made every one nervous. WW1 did not end it petered out. There were huge numbers of armed men from various busted armys many from countries that really no longer existed wandering around central Europe trying to get home. The place was a mess. The war reparations bankrupted the place, the inflation was terrible, and then there came the world wide depression and made it worse. Then the Nazis and Hitler. Your factoid: Russia declared war on Japan about a week before the war ended. Hitler was a Vegetarian.

Answer 3

Mainly it consisted of Japan Italy Germany (axis powers) vs USA Russia Britain & France (allies) however obviously there were more countries involved but which were not major playmakers.

Following major humiliations suffered by Italy and Germany in the aftermath of World War 1, deep-seethed nationalism was triggered in these countries' populations. Individuals like Hitler and Mussolini who were absolutely done suffering poverty and being pestered and played about by superpowers like Britain reacted and overeacted to bring their countries in the forefront of the world scene and impose their own politics and dominate the world. At that time there was major competition as regarding Imperialisim and Colonialism which means the more land one possesses the more powerful one is and that is why Germany invaded Poland Austria etc and Italy invaded parts of Central Africa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) etcto try and compete with Britain and take the lead.

An interesting fact: A British army general who had taken part in WW1 noticed a German ailing and injured soldier following a major battle between Britain and Germany. Due fact the soldier was unarmed and vulnerable the general spared his life. Years later the general found out that that same soldier he spared in WW1 would destroy his country in front of his own eyes and almost conquer it. That soldier was Hitler. It is believed that Hitler had a photo or painting of that British general which he framed and cynically pinned to the wall of his study.

Answer 4

Italy, America, Europe, Japan, Germany, Russia

Answer 5

-The majority of the world's nations.
-62.5 million
-Sorry, but Hitler's regime started the war for a number of reasons.......many can be attributed to Mein Kampf and the shame & economic hardships Germany faced after WW I
-many interesting things.....you'll have to decide for yourself what is noteworthy!!!

Answer 6

Russia,England,France,Germany,Italy,United States,India,Canada,Australia,some African countries

Answer 7

ww II think dude why is called ww

Answer 8

These sites will answer your questions...

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww2Timeline/start.html
http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_mainpage.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/