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World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, resulting in 70 to 85 million fatalities, more than half of which were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust of European Jews, and by massacres, starvation, and disease.
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World War II (WWII), or the Second World War, was a global...
- World War II Casualties
Civilian casualties include deaths caused by strategic...
- European Theatre of World War II
The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main...
- Allies
The victorious Allies of World War I—which included what...
- Winston Churchill
At the outbreak of the Second World War he was re-appointed...
- List of Timelines of World War II
Timeline of declarations of war during World War II;...
- Countries
Almost every country in the world participated in World War...
- Axis Powers
The Government of National Salvation, also referred to as...
- World War III
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was concerned that,...
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An Australian World War II propaganda poster produced in...
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World War II (WWII), or the Second World War, was a global war involving all continents of the world, except the Polar continents. It involved fighting in most of the world from 1939 to 1945. Some fighting started in 1937, when Imperial Japanese forces started the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The causes of World War II have been given considerable attention by historians. The immediate precipitating event was the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939, and the subsequent declarations of war on Germany made by Britain and France, but many other prior events have been suggested as ultimate causes.
This is a list of World War II battles encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period.
World War II, or the Second World War was a global military conflict that was fought between September 1, 1939, and September 2, 1945. The war pitted two major military alliances against each other: the Allies of the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, China and others against the Axis of Germany, Japan, Italy and others.
Civilian casualties include deaths caused by strategic bombing, Holocaust victims, German war crimes, Japanese war crimes, population transfers in the Soviet Union, Allied war crimes, and deaths due to war-related famine and disease.
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Almost every country in the world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relative few nations remained neutral to the end. The Second World War pitted two alliances against each other, the Axis powers and the Allied powers .
