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2 days ago · World War II [b] or the Second World War was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. Many participating countries invested all available economic, industrial, and scientific ...
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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 (1943) Timeline of World War II...
- Countries
Mexico. The first Braceros arrive in Los Angeles, 1942....
- Axis Powers
Flags of Germany, Japan, and Italy draping the facade of the...
- World War III
Nuclear warfare is a common symbol and theme of World War...
- Australia
An Australian World War II propaganda poster produced in...
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World War II is a former featured article candidate.Please...
- Indian Ocean
The pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee brought World War II...
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3 days ago · Second Battle of Ypres (April 22–May 25, 1915), second of three costly battles in World War I at Ypres (now Ieper), in western Flanders. The battle marked the Germans’ first use of poison gas as a weapon.
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3 days ago · Battle of Stalingrad. Coordinates: 48°42′N. Battle of Stalingrad. Part of the Eastern Front of World War II. Clockwise from top-left: (1) 76.2 mm ZiS-3 field gun, operated by the Soviet Red Army. (2) Soviet soldiers fighting on the roof of a house. (3) Ju 87 of the German Luftwaffe after a dive bombing.
- 23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943, (5 months, 1 week and 3 days)
- Expulsion of the Axis from the Caucasus, reversing their gains from the 1942 Summer Campaign
4 days ago · Joseph Stalin (born December 18 [December 6, Old Style], 1878, Gori, Georgia, Russian Empire [see Researcher’s Note] —died March 5, 1953, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–53) and premier of the Soviet state (1941–53), who for a quarter of a century dictatorially ruled the ...
3 days ago · Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. It became archetypically associated with World War I (1914–1918), when the Race to the Sea rapidly expanded trench use on ...
2 days ago · Germany. One of Europe ’s largest countries, Germany encompasses a wide variety of landscapes: the tall, sheer mountains of the south; the sandy, rolling plains of the north; the forested hills of the urbanized west; and the plains of the agricultural east. At the spiritual heart of the country is the magnificent east-central city of Berlin ...
