World War II: The Last Good War

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World War II is widely codisered to be the "last good war", meaing that compared to the following wars, Korean and Vietnam, we had a clear goal and achieved victory of that goal. The first consequence I am going to list is a good consequence, being the defeat of Nazism and Fascism, and everything that they stand for, converting countries like Germany, Italy, and Japan to democracy. The next consequenct of World War II is, obviously, the death count of the Jewish people. Over 6 million Jews died during the war due to the Nazi party. Another consequence of this war was the amunt of overall deaths are estemated to be between 50 and 80 million, including every country and every death caused by the war. There are an estimated 50-55 million civilion

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