Deadliest Conflict - WWII
6 years - 70 nations involved and 72 million dead because of unnatural cause. Biggest casualty in history of mankind. This is World War II for you ! Interestingly, there are lot of causes that have been attributed to this war and like every story, efforts have been put to get one VILLIAN and one HERO. Even the names were chosen like ALLIES and AXIS which almost sound diagonally opposite. Seemingly, most of the wars that were fought in 18th - 20th century had "ECONOMICS" angle the most strong one and WWII was a stark example. While discussing the causes of WWII war, one of our profs recently gave an interesting economic angle - Germany, though having given lot of reasons for taking over its neighbouring countries like "Attrocities on Germans" etc. , but the main advantage below all this was to take care of "natural resources" like rubber/steel or manufacturing prowess like "Skoda car making in Czech". It wanted to be self-sufficient in all the re