{mosimage}World War II was the largest war ever in the history of mankind. There was a mobilization of 100 million troops and 72 million people were killed in this war. This war involved 61 countries from all over the world.

World War II is the most remembered for its genocide carried out by the Nazis again the Jews and usage of nuclear bomb by America, which is the only time a nuke bomb, was used, thankfully. This war lasted for 12 years from 1937 to 1945.

This war was fought because of the ambitions of the countries like Japan, Germany and Italy. The war began in 1937 with Japan’s invasion of china and in Europe with German invasion of Poland.

The war was not just between the countries. There were ideologies involved in the reasoning of this war. Countries that were and wanted their ambitions, though inhuman fulfilled tried to suppress those who wanted justice and were ready to fight for it. There were several resistance movements actively working in several countries of the World, trying to fight against the dominating powers in the world.

However, it is surprising that though there were attempts of stopping these resistance movements, the movements still found out ways to remain active and involved large number of people. There were several reasons, this was did not just see the large amounts of destruction of life and assets; it also saw a large scale of moral damage.

There were news from world over about abuse of people from the countries which were occupied by the German, Italian and Japanese forces. There were vast amount of killings of people, genocide, which resulted into an international protest against these countries.

World War II saw creation of concentrations camps, exterminations camps and labor camps to eliminate or to deport people from the countries which has a bias against them. This war also saw large number of people from the Imperial Army engage in crimes against women, all among the East there were women from countries like China, Korea, etc. forced to carry out sexual slavery, often referred to as comfort women.

Retreating Japanese armies also carried out mass massacres of the Filipinos in Philippine, which was known to be one of the gravest war crimes in the World War II, this war crime saw deaths of people and especially children in the numbers of one million.

This destruction and mass killings prompted America to involve itself in the War and this resulted into Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bomb attacks. These explosions are yet having effects in the areas where the bombs were dropped.

The war was so intensely fought, that it was not just the armed forces that were involved in the war. The war saw losing of identity between military and civilians, there was a complete participation of all factions of the society namely, industrial, financial, economic and scientific in this war. This was also saw emergence of two superpowers in the world namely, America and Soviet Union; this war also saw Europe losing its powers to these countries.