World War II as an even more total war

World War II was even more total than World War I, extending directly into civilian life through strategic bombing campaigns that targeted cities, and culminating in the first and only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. By the war's end in 1945, an estimated 70 to 85 million people had died, the deadliest conflict in human history, with civilian deaths making up a substantial majority of that total.

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