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    e. World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, participated in the conflict, and many invested all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities ...

  2. The First Balkan War in 1912/13 was a war of aggression by the young nation states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece against the internationally isolated Ottoman Empire and resulted in the loss of its territories in the Balkan peninsula. The conflict was also a proxy war between the major powers, which indirectly acted out their ...

  3. Montenegro was the first to declare war on 25 September ( O.S. )/8 October. After issuing an impossible ultimatum to the Ottoman Porte on 13 October, Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece declared war on the Ottomans on 17 October (1912). The declarations of war attracted a large number of war correspondents.

  4. Balkan Wars 1912-1913. The Balkan Wars were two sharp conflicts that heralded the onset of World War I. In the First Balkan War a loose alliance of Balkan States eliminated the Ottoman Empire from most of Europe. In the Second Balkan War, the erstwhile allies fought among themselves for the Ottoman spoils.

  5. The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and Japan’s formal surrender on September 2 ended the war. An estimated 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 people died during World War II, including about 6,000,000 Jewish men, women, and children who died in the Holocaust.

  6. Ethiopia in World War I. Ethiopia in 1915, with the disputed Huwan region (coral color) During World War I, Ethiopia briefly forged an alliance with the Allied Powers, following Italy's entry into the war in 1915. In June 1916, a dynastic conflict emerged when the uncrowned Emperor, Lij Iyasu, was alleged to have converted to Islam under the ...

  7. Jan 1, 2014 · In 1912, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece allied against the Ot-. toman Empire. This alliance of four countries defeated the T urks in. the First Balkan W ar (1912–1913). 1In the London ...

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