how many bombs were dropped on britain during ww2?
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Some 30,000 tonnes of bombs were dropped overall and more than 40,000 people killed. After 1941 and the end of the Blitz the Luftwaffe still made air raids on the UK, especially over the south east.
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On this day in 1939, German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. World War II had begun.
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On August 6, one of the modified B-29s dropped a uranium gun-type bomb ("Little Boy") on Hiroshima. Another B-29 dropped a plutonium implosion bomb ("Fat Man") on Nagasaki three days later. The bombs immediately devastated their targets.
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Over 45,000 bombs were dropped on Britain during the campaign.
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Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The bomb was known as "Little Boy", a uranium gun-type bomb that exploded with about thirteen kilotons of force. At the time of the bombing, Hiroshima was home to 280,000-290,000 civilians as well as 43,000 soldiers.
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['Rationing starts in the UK.', "German 'Blitzkrieg' overwhelms Belgium, Holland and France.", 'Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain.', 'British Expeditionary Force evacuated from Dunkirk.', 'British victory in Battle of Britain forces Hitler to postpone invasion plans.']
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['Hitler begins Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of Russia.', "The Blitz continues against Britain's major cities.", 'Allies take Tobruk in North Africa, and resist German attacks.', 'Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, and the US enters the war.']
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31.8. 2: Casualties of World War II Some 75 million people died in World War II, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians, many of whom died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.
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1, 1939, announcing the German invasion of Poland. After roughly 1.5 million German soldiers, more than 2,000 airplanes and more than 2,500 tanks crossed the Polish border on Sept. 1, 1939, the British gave Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler an ultimatum: pull out of Poland, or else.
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Two atomic bombs made by the allied powers (USA and UK) from uranium-235 and plutonium-239 were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively early in August 1945.
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A few additional facts: Between 1939 and 1945, Allied planes dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs on Axis powers. Between 305,000 and 600,000 German and 330,000 and 500,000 Japanese civilians were killed by Allied bombs during the war.
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On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland from the west; two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning World War II. On September 17, Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east.
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Germany invaded eight countries in 1939 and 1940: Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and the The Channel Island (UK).
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Over the course of World War Two, Buckingham Palace survived 9 German Bombs attacks. Despite concerns for their own safety, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, later known as the Queen Mother, refused to leave the palace during the onslaught of German bombings.
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In 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. - Brainly.com.
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Today, it would be more accurate to call it the land of a million bombs. From 1964 to 1973, as part of the Secret War operation conducted during the Vietnam War, the US military dropped 260 million cluster bombs – about 2.5 million tons of munitions – on Laos over the course of 580,000 bombing missions.
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Around 280 short tons (250 t) (9,000 bombs) had been dropped, killing 1,413 people and injuring 3,500 more. Many people over 35 remembered the bombing and were afraid of more. From 1916–1918, German raids had diminished against countermeasures which demonstrated defence against night air raids was possible.