World War II marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons in war. Japan, which aimed to dominate Asia and the Pacific, was at war with China by 1937, though neither side had declared war on the other. World War II is generally said to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany and subsequent declarations on Germany by France and the United Kingdom. From
Weather-related fatalities in the United States with at least "1" fatality. The yearly timeframes were selected to cover "January 1" to "December 31" of each year for each event type. This table does not provide a comprehensive total of all weather-related events. "Also", this is not necessarily a weather event severity comparison, but is more of an indicator of frequency of fatal occurrences for some events. However, the "unexpected" leader of fatalities comes from the temperature extremes category. That category includes heat waves as well as cold extremes. Between 1979 and 2014, the death rate as a direct result of exposure to heat (underlying cause of