1945 | Population
Population
World War II casualties total an estimated 54.8 million dead, including 25 million in the Soviet Union, 7.8 in China, and more than 6 in Poland, whose population has declined by more than 22 percent. The Japanese have lost 3 million, including about 1.5 million civilians.
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World War II|Murphy, Audie|Berlin : in World War II|Speer, Albert|Ramsay, Bertram H.|Yalta Conference|Churchill, Winston|Roosevelt, Franklin D.|Stalin, Josef|Leahy, Admiral Wm. D.|Greece : civil war in|RAF|Dresden : in World War II|Cologne : in World War II|Philippines : in World War II|MacArthur, Douglas|Bataan|Manila : in World War II|Krueger, Walter|Yamashita, Tomoyuki|Decoux, Jean|Tokyo : in World War II|napalm|LeMay, Curtis|Spaatz, Carl|Philippines : in World War II|Iwo Jima|Navajo : in World War II|Smith, Holland McT.|League of Arab States|Egypt : in Arab League|Iraq : in Arab League|Jordan : in Arab League|Lebanon : in Arab League|Saudi Arabia : in Arab League|Syria : in Arab League|Yemen : in Arab League|Algeria : in Arab League|Tunisia : in Arab League|Morocco : in Arab Leabue|Kuwait : in Arab League|Qatar|Bahrain : in Arab League|Oman : in Arab League|Somalia : in Arab League|Sudan : in Arab League|Mauritania|Palestine : British in|Palestine : terrorists in|Begin, Menachim|Hadassah|Szold, Henrietta|Roosevelt, Franklin D.|Lloyd George, David|Lugard, F.D.|Astor, Nancy, Lady|Model, Walter|Canaris, Wilhelm F.|Roosevelt, Franklin D.|Roosevelt, Eleanor|Truman, Harry S.|Pendergast, Thomas J.|Stettinius, Edward R., Jr.|Street, Lady Jane|United Nations|Royan, France : in World War II|napalm : use of in Europe|Vienna : in World War II|Vienna : Saint Stephen's Cathedral in|Zhukov, Georgi K.|Konev, Ivan Stepanovich|Berlin : in World War II|Nuremberg : in World War II|Haushofer, Albrecht|Reitsch, Hanna|Hitler, Adolf|Konev, Ivan Stepanovich|Clark, Mark|Himmler, Heinrich|Mussolini, Benito|Italy : in World War II|Hitler, Adolf|Braun, Eva|Goebbels, Joseph|Bormann, Martin|Germany : in World War II|Doenitz, Karl|Truman, Harry S.|V-E Day|Czechslovakia|Benes, Eduard|Hungary : and United States|United States : and Hungary|Norway : in World War II|Haakon VII of Norway|Burma : in World War II|Stillwell, Joseph W.|Slim, Sir William J.|Ne Win, U|Okinawa, U.S. occupation of|Buckner, Simon Bolivar : Jr.|Okinawa : Battle of|Japan : in World War II|United States : in World War II|Philippines : in World War II|Australia|Curtin, John|Forde, Francis M.|Chifley, Joseph B.|Medal of Freedom, Presidential, U.S.|Truman, Harry S.|LeMay, Gen. Curtis|Tokyo : in World War II|Okada, Keisuke|Tojo, Hideki|atomic bomb|Attlee, Clement R.|Churchill, Winston|U.S.S. Indianapolis|Potsdam : Conference|Truman, Harry S.|Stalin, Josef|Churchill, Winston|Attlee, Clement|Labour party|Sakai, Saburo|Mitsubishi|Zero fighter plane|Japan : in World War II|Hiroshima|atomic bomb|Johnson, Hiram W.|Hall, Ted|KGB|Cohen, Lona|Kurchatov, Igor|atomic bomb : Soviet|Soviet Union : and atomic bomb/energy|Manchuria|Yamada, Otozo|Pu Yi|Soviet Union : and Japan|Soviet Union : in World War II|atomic bomb : Hiroshima, Nagasaki|Nagasaki|plutonium|Toyoda, Soemu|Togo, Shigenori|Higashikuni, Naruhiko|Konoye, Fumimaro|Suzuki, Kantaro|V-J Day|Japan : biological weapons and|Ishii, Shiro|Anami, Korechika|China : in World War II|Britain : in World War II|Italy : in World War II|United States : in World War II|United States : Army|France : in World War II|Canada : in World War II|Australia : in World War II|New Zealand : in World War II|South Africa : in World War II|India : in World War II|Indonesia|Dutch East Indies|Sjahrir, Sutan|Bose, Subhas Chandra|MacArthur, Douglas|Mongolia|Manchuria|Taiwan|Japan : and Taiwan|Korea|Fraser, Bruce A.|Hirohito|Vietnam|Ho Chi Minh|Bao Dai (Nguyen Vinh Thuy)|Cuong De|France : in Southeast Asia|Vietnam : Nguyen dynasty in|Diem, Ngo Dinh|Duy Tan|Wake Island : in World War II|Chiang Kai-shek|Taiwan : and Japan|Japan : and Taiwan|Tojo, Hideki|Higashikuni, Naruhiko|MacArthur, Douglas|Konoye, Fumimaro|Singapore : in World War II|Hong Kong|Decoux, Jean|Pétain, Henri|Laval, Pierre|de Gaulle, Charles|France|Office of Strategic Services (OSS)|Donovan, William J.|Italy|De Gasperi, Alcide|Nuremberg Tribunal|Stalin, Josef|Churchill, Winston|Taylor, Telford|Ley, Robert|Jackson, Robert H.|Mackenson, August von|Patton, George S., Jr.|Keyes, Roger J.B.|Venezuela|Betancourt, Rómulo|Calles, Plutarco Elías|Vargas, Getulio|Brazil|concentration camps : Auschwitz|Hungary : USSR and|Soviet Union : and Hungary|Wallenberg, Raoul|Slovik, Eddie|Eisenhower, Dwight D.|United States : racial discriminatino in|Skobtsova, Maria|concentration camps : Ravensbrück|Patton, Gen. George S., Jr.|Walker, Walton H.|concentration camps : Buchenwald|concentration camps : Dachau|concentration camps : Ravensbruck|concentration camps : Mauthausen|concentration camps : Theresienstadt|Baeck, Leo|Holocaust|Bulgaria : Jews in|Himmler, Heinrich|Streicher, Julius|Barbie, Klaus|Mengele, Josef|Schindler, Oskar|Zionism|Palestine : Zionism and|women's rights : in France|France : woman suffrage in|Greece : suffrage in|Hungary : suffrage in|Yugoslavia : suffrage in|Ireland : suffrage in|Guatemala : suffrage in|Senegal : suffrage in|Ichikawa, Iusae|Confederation of New Japanese Women|Japan : suffrage in|Braun, Wernher von|Dornberger, Walter R.|rocket|Goddard, Robert H.|space exploration|Voegler, Albert|copper : world reserves of|Reuther, Walter P.|General Motors : and UAW|Britain, family allowances in|Griffiths, Jim|United States : labor in|Lerner, Max|United States : tariffs|income tax, U.S.|United States : income tax in|United States : National Debt of|Gross National Product (GNP)|coal : strikes, U.S.|Banque de France|World Bank|atomic bomb|Hiroshima|Nagasaki|Oppenheimer, J. Robert|Peierls, Rudolf|Chien-shiung Wu|Libby, Leona|Schreiber, Raemer E.|gasoline : U.S. rationing of|Wilhelm Gustloff|Lake, Simon|Piasecki, Frank|helicopter : Piasecki and|Bendix, Vincent|Beech Aircraft|Chennault, Gen. Claire|Flying Tiger Line|Northwest Airlines|Jeep|Willys motorcar|Toledo, Ohio : automaking in|Ford, Henry|Ford Motor Company|Ford, Henry : II|Breech, Ernest R.|Jaguar motorcar|Sanger, Frederick|biochemistry : Sanger and|Royal Society, Britain|Lonsdale, Kathleen|Vernadsky, Vladimir I.|Fischer, Hans|Geiger, Hans|Aston, Francis W.|isotopes|Morgan, Thomas Hunt|Fleming, Alexander|antibiotics|penicillin|antibiotics : streptomycin|Hitchings, George H.|Ochsner, Alton|cancer|cigarettes : health hazards of|American Cancer Society|United States : childbirth in|childbirth : United States|pregnancy : premarital|Howell, William Henry|Baker, Sara Josephine|Cannon, Walter B.|Bonhoeffer, Dietrich|Barzun, Jacques|Pyle, Ernie|Fleming, John A.|Congressional Quarterly|Poynter, Nelson|Gainza Paz, Alberto|Burchett, Wilfred|Laurence, William L.|Meet the Press (r)|Spivak, Lawrence E.|Rountree, Martha|television : U.S. set ownership of,|telephone : answering machine|ballpoint pens|Popper, Karl|Needham, Joseph|Koestler, Arthur|Kelsen, Hans|Sturzo, Luigi|Schlesinger, Arthur M. : Jr.|Wright, Richard|Miller, Henry|Chase, Stuart|Schultz, Theodore W.|MacDonald, Betty|Rau, Santha Rama|Mitford, Nancy|Tomlinson, H.M.|Huizinga, Johan|Becker, Carl L.|Nock, Albert Jay|Baring, Maurice|The Animal Farm (n)|Orwell, George|The Age of Reason (n)|The Reprieve (n)|Sartre, Jean-Paul|Duras, Marguerite|Christ Stopped at Eboli (n)|Levi, Carlo|The Serpent (n)|Dagerman, Stig|Krane's Café (n)|Sandel, Cora|Prater Violet (n)|Isherwood, Christopher|Brideshead Revisited (n)|Waugh, Evelyn|That Hideous Strength (n)|Lewis, C.S.|Loving (n)|Green, Henry|A Fearful Joy (n)|Cary, Joyce|Cannery Row (n)|Steinbeck, John|The Crack-Up (n)|Fitzgerald, F. Scott|The Egyptian (n)|Waltari, Mika|Mitford, Nancy|Hardwick, Elizabeth|Patchen, Kenneth|Smart, Elizabeth|Barker, George|Bowen, Elizabeth|West, Jessamyn|Roy, Gabrielle|Grandbois, Alain|Forever Amber (n)|Winsor, Kathleen|Patten, Gilbert|Werfel, Franz|Glasgow, Ellen|Dreiser, Theodore|Ransom, John Crowe|Brooks, Gwendolyn|H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)|Treece, Henry|Milosz, Czeslaw|Valéry, Paul|Stuart Little (j)|White, E.B.|Williams, Garth|The Famous Invasion of Sicily by the Bears (j)|Buzzati, Dino|Pippi Longstocking (j)|Lindgren, Anna|Salten, Felix|Guston, Philip|Gorky, Arshile|Picasso, Pablo|Léger, Fernand|Dubuffet, Jean|Ernst, Max|Feininger, Lyonel|Davis, Stuart|Kuhn, Walt|Rivera, Diego|Rockwell, Norman|Kollwitz, Käthe|Wyeth, N.C.|Calder, Alexander|Cornell, Joseph|Noguchi, Isamu|Moore, Henry|Richier, Germaine|Weegee|The Hasty Heart (p)|Patrick, John|Lund, John|The House of Bernarda Alba (p)|García Lorca, Federico|The Glass Menagerie (p)|Williams, Tennessee|Taylor, Laurette|Dowling, Eddie|Haydon, Julie|Jones, Margo|Lady from Edinburgh (p)|Caligula (p)|Camus, Albert|Deep Are the Roots (p)|D'Usseau, Arnaud|Gow, James|Bel Geddes, Barbara|Martin, Helen|Waldron, Charles|State of the Union (p)|Lindsay, Howard|Crouse, Russel|McCormick, Myron|Bellamy, Ralph|Dream Girl (p)|Rice, Elmer|Corey, Wendell|Field, Betty|The Madwoman of Chaillot (p)|Giraudoux, Jean|Feuillère, Edwige|Kaiser, Georg|Home of the Brave (p)|Laurents, Arthur|Baxter, Alan|Clark, Kendall|La Verne, Lucille|Kaiser, Georg|Knoblock, Edward|Craven, Frank|Godfrey, Arthur|The Theatre Guild on the Air (r) : |Clair, René|And Then There Were None (f)|Fitzgerald, Barry|Huston, Walter|Hayward, Louis|Anderson, Judith|Duprez, June|Dearden, Basil|Hamer, Robert|Crichton, Charles|Dead of Night (f)|Redgrave, Michael|Olivier, Laurence|Henry V (f)|Wilder, Billy|The Lost Weekend (f)|Milland, Ray|Wyman, Jane|Renoir, Jean|The Southerner (f)|Field, Betty|Ford, John|They Were Expendable (f)|Montgomery, Robert|Reed, Donna|Kazan, Elia|A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (f)|McGuire, Dorothy|Blondell, Joan|Asquith, Anthony|The Way to the Stars (f)|Mills, John|Howard, Trevor|King, Henry|A Bell for Adano (f)|Tierney, Gene|Hodiak, John|Bendix, William|Lean, David|Blithe Spirit (f)|Harrison, Rex|Cummings, Constance|Rutherford, Margaret|Wise, Robert|The Body Snatchers (f)|Karloff, Boris|Lugosi, Bela|Minnelli, Vincente|The Clock (f)|Garland, Judy|Walker, Robert|Rapper, Irving|The Corn Is Green (f)|Davis, Bette|Bruce, Nigel|Hathaway, Henry|The House on 92nd Street (f)|Eythe, William|Nolan, Lloyd|Hasso, Signe|Kurosawa, Akira|The Man Who Tread the Tiger's Tail (f)|Curtiz, Michael|Mildred Pierce (f)|Crawford, Joan|Carson, Jack|Scott, Zachary|Blyth, Ann|Seiler, Lewis|Molly and Me (f)|Fields, Gracie|Woolley, Monty|Walsh, Raoul|Objective, Burma! (f)|Flynn, Errol|Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (f) : |Robinson, Edward G.|O'Brien, Margaret|Bennett, Compton|The Seventh Veil (f)|Mason, James|Todd, Ann|Hitchcock, Alfred|Spellbound (f)|Bergman, Ingrid|Peck, Gregory|Milestone, Lewis|A Walk in the Sun (f)|Andrews, Dana|Conte, Richard|Sandrich, Mark|Nazimova, Alla|Benchley, Robert|Lang, Walter|State Fair (h)|Crain, Jeanne|Andrews, Dana|Rodgers, Richard|Hammerstein, Oscar : II|"It Might as Well Be Spring|"It's a Grand Night for Singing : |Up in Central Park (m)|Romberg, Sigmund|Fields, Dorothy|Fields, Herbert|Tamiris, Helen|Carousel (m)|Raitt, John|Clayton, Jan|Rodgers, Richard|Hammerstein, Oscar : II|Molnár, Ferenc|"If I Loved You|"June Is Bustin' Out All Over|"Soliloquy|"You'll Never Walk Alone|Perchance to Dream (m)|Novello, Ivor|Rutherford, Margaret|Sigh No More (m)|Grenfell, Joyce|Elliott, Madge|Ritchard, Cyril|Coward, Noël|Under the Counter (m)|Courtneidge, Cicely|Billion Dollar Baby (m)|McCracken, Joan|Green, Mitzi|Tabbert, William|Gould, Morton|Comden, Betty|Green, Adolph|Tucker, Richard|Peter Grimes (o)|Pears, Peter|Cross, Joan|Coates, Edith|Britten, Benjamin|Callas, Maria|Kirsten, Dorothy|Merrill, Robert|Mascagni, Pietro|Undertow (b)|Laing, Hugh|Alonso, Alicia|Schuman, William|Tudor, Antony|Prokofiev, Sergei|Shostakovich, Dmitri|Schoenberg, Arnold|Britten, Benjamin|Philharmonia Orchestra of London : |Legge, Walter|Webern, Anton von|Bartók, Bela|"La Mer|Trenet, Charles|"Beyond the Sea|"It's Been a Long, Long Time|Styne, Jule|Cahn, Sammy|"Till the End of Time|"For Sentimental Reasons|"I'm Beginning to See the Light : |Ellington, Duke|James, Harry|"Laura|Mercer, Johnny|"Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)|Humes, Helen|"Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall|Roberts, Allan|Fisher, Doris|"Be-Ba-Ba-Le-Ba|"Les Trois Cloches|"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!|Jackson, Mahalia|Scruggs, Earl|Monroe, Bill|Trinidad : steel bands in|steel bands|Dubin, Al|McCormack, John|Edwards, Gus|Kern, Jerome|Liddell, Eric|Nelson, Byron|Parker, Frank|Cooke, Sarah Palfrey|Davis, Dwight F.|Arruza, Carlos|Manolete|Spahn, Warren|Greenberg, Hank|Blanchard, Felix "Doc|Davis, Glenn (Army football back)|Cayce, Edgar|Lalique, René|Balmain, Pierre|fashion : Balmain and|Stein, Gertrude|prostitution : United States|Freon-12|Slinky toy|Dymaxion House|Fuller, Buckminster|Hilton hotels|Chicago : hotels in|earthquakes : Japan|earthquakes : Iran|Japan : earthquakes in|Iran : earthquakes in|Columbia River Packers Assn.|tunafish : albacore|United Nations : Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of|Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)|Boyd Orr, John|Agriculture, U.S. Dept. of : wheat and|Salmon, Samuel C.|wheat : USDA and|wheat : in Japan|Vogel, Orville|soybeans : U.S. production of|herbicides : 2, 4-D|du Pont, E.I. : herbicides|insecticides : chlordane|insecticides : methoxychlor|strawberries : University|acorns|CARE|eggs : powdered|fluoridation|nutrition : fluorides and|nutrition : amino acids and|amino acids : tryptophan|vitamin B3 (niacin)|pellagra : milk and|Georgia : enrichment laws in|Hawaii (Sandwich Islands) : enrichment laws in|Indiana : enrichment laws in|Maine : enrichment laws in|New Hampshire : enrichment laws in,|New York State : enrichment laws in|North Carolina : enrichment laws in|North Dakota : enrichment laws in|South Dakota : enrichment laws in|Washington State : enrichment laws in|West Virginia : enrichment laws in,|Wyoming : enrichment laws in|Spam|Swanson, C.A., & Sons|frozen foods : Swanson|Blevins, James V.|popcorn : Blevins and|oranges : frozen juice|orange juice : powdered|Fox, John M.|orange juice : frozen|Coca-Cola : "Coke|Hershey, Milton S.|World War II|Soviet Union : in World War II|China : in World War II|Poland : in World War II|Japan : in World War II
