Search results
3 days ago · World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two major alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of these military alliances. Many participating countries invested all available economic ...
- Simple English
World War II (WWII), or the Second World War, was a global...
- World War II Casualties
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by...
- Allies
The victorious Allies of World War I—which included what...
- List of Timelines of World War II
Timeline of World War II (1945–1991) Wars, campaigns, and...
- Countries
Mexico. The first Braceros arrive in Los Angeles, 1942....
- Axis Powers
The possibility of Spanish intervention in World War II was...
- World War III
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was concerned that,...
- Australia
An Australian World War II propaganda poster produced in...
- Talk
World War II is a former featured article candidate.Please...
- Indian Ocean
The pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee brought World War II...
- Simple English
1 day ago · The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany , announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade.
- September 3, 1939 – May 8, 1945, (5 years, 8 months and 5 days)
- Allied victory
People also ask
How many Jews were transferred from Warsaw to Treblinka?
What was the Warsaw Ghetto revolt?
When did Czechoslovakia get dismembered?
What happened at Treblinka?
5 days ago · Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, resistance by Polish Jews under Nazi occupation in 1943 to the deportations from Warsaw to the Treblinka extermination camp. The revolt began on April 19, 1943. While the Germans had planned to liquidate the ghetto in three days, the Jews held out for nearly a month.
- Michael Berenbaum
5 days ago · Romanticism. nationalistic music. Bohemia. Czech. Bedřich Smetana (born March 2, 1824, Leitomischl, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Litomyšl, Czech Republic]—died May 12, 1884, Prague) was a Bohemian composer of operas and symphonic poems, founder of the Czech national school of music. He was the first truly important Bohemian nationalist ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · When he sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Putin evoked World War II in seeking to justify his actions that Kyiv and its Western allies denounced as an unprovoked war of aggression. Putin ...
4 days ago · Russia marked the 79th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. Russian President Vladimir Putin drew parallels between history and the current fight in Ukraine.
