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Why was the death toll so high - Coggle Diagram
Why was the death toll so high
Extreme nationalism and racism
Fascist nations were motivated by extreme racism and nationalism
Social Darwinism and propaganda
Japan was extremely aggressive
30% of the war's deaths came from China
Nanking 1937, China was an example of the aggression of the Japanese
200,000 civilians were murdered and 20,000 woman raped
Code of Bushido that taught that surrender is worse than death.
Kamikaze
Pilots flew suicide missions to crash into Allied ships.
4000 pilots used, 7000 Allied deaths.
The family of pilots who surrendered will be held responsible
Also a strategy to control the people
Civilians were seem as targets
One example is when Germany invaded Russia
Siege of Leningrad
Surrounded for almost 900 days
People did not surrender, but 1 million people died from starvation
Strategic bombing
Allies used planes to bomb German, Japanese, and Italian cities
Claimed that factories were targets.
1 million killed in Japan, 600,000 German civilians were killed.
Bombing of Dresden
Dresden was a large German factory.
20,000 civilians were killed
The Germans destroyed Soviet cities
New technologly
Atomic bomb
First bomb was tested and exploded in New Mexico.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
70,000 - 80,000 people died in Hiroshima
70,000 killed in Nagasaki
Bombs created intense hea and shock waves
Radiation caused another 100,000 deaths