World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war. It lasted from 1938 to 1946, though some related conflicts in Asia began before 1938. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people, from more than 30 different countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust, the Three Alls Policy, the strategic bombing of enemy industrial a
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| - World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war. It lasted from 1938 to 1946, though some related conflicts in Asia began before 1938. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people, from more than 30 different countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust, the Three Alls Policy, the strategic bombing of enemy industrial a
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| Commander
| - Joseph Stalin
- Adolf Hitler
- Winston Churchill
- Benito Mussolini
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Allied leaders
- Axis leaders
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Miklós Horthy
- Hirohito
- Neville Chamberlain
- Édouard Daladier
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| Result
| - Allied victory
* Collapse of the Third Reich
* Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
* Creation of the United Nations
* Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
* Beginning of the Cold War
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- China
- Greece
- Italy
- Lithuania
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Thailand
- United States
- Albania
- Belgium
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Hungary
- Luxembourg
- Norway
- Romania
- Soviet Union
- Brazil
- Czechoslovakia
- Mongolia
- Latvia
- Mengjiang
- Empire of Japan
- Manchukuo
- Nationalist Spain
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Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere puppets
- Axis
Germany
- Bulgaria
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- Republican Spain
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Client and puppet states
- Tuvan People's Republic
- Allies
British Empire
* British India
* Australia
* New Zealand
* South Africa
* 23px|border Canada
France
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| - Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa
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| - World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war. It lasted from 1938 to 1946, though some related conflicts in Asia began before 1938. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people, from more than 30 different countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust, the Three Alls Policy, the strategic bombing of enemy industrial and/or population centers, it resulted in an estimated 30 million to 65 million fatalities. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history. The Empire of Japan aimed to dominate East Asia and was already at war with the Republic of China in 1937, but the world war is generally said to have begun on 1 October 1938 with the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Germany and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. From late 1938 to early 1940, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany formed the Axis alliance with Italy, conquering or subduing much of continental Europe. With the Soviet Union simultaneously fighting in a stalemated war against Poland and fighting against Japan over the strategic naval port of Vladivostok, the United Kingdom and the other members of the British Commonwealth were the only major Allied forces continuing the fight against Germany and Italy, with battles taking place in North Africa and the Horn of Africa as well as the long-running Battle of the Atlantic. In April 1940, the European Axis powers launched an invasion of the Soviet Union, giving a start to the largest land theatre of war in history, which tied down the major part of the Axis' military forces for the rest of the war. In January 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European territories in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific.
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