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Civilian Experiance, compared to other wars (from the fallen of ww2 yt…

- - - - civilians seen as legitimate targets
      - if countries did not have enough civilians, they couldn't participate in total war
    - - no "good guys"
      - facist powers
      - social darwinism
      - japan
        
        facist
        
        totalitarian
        
        involved in war of conquest, want to conquer china
        
        30% of war deaths came from china
        
        rape of nanking
        
        extreme nationalism, dehumanized chinese
        
        code of bushido
        
        uses terror to control mass population of china, japan was greatly outnumbered
        
        4,000 kamikaze suicide bombers resulted in 7,000 civilian deaths
        
        japanese pilots ran out of gas and they weren't tought how to land, japanese figured if they are going down then to go down into an enemy ship
        
        japanese felt like "chosen people" because they had never been invaded
    - - almost a million people starved to death
      - germans bombed sugar factory, all sugar melted into dirt and people ate the dirt with sugar because they were so desperate for food
  - - - nuclear weapons were only used 2 times in the history of the US and the world
        
        first dropped on hiroshima - 70,000-80,000 died
        
        second dropped on nagaski - 70,000 died
        
        radiation from bombs lasted so 100,000 more people died of exposure over the next couple years
      - US tested nuclear bombs in New Mexico