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Warld War II
	; Clockwise frae tap left: Cheenese forces in the Battle o Wanjialing, Australian 25-pounder guns durin the First Battle o El Alamein, German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastren Front winter 1943–1944, US naval force in the Lingayen Gulf, Wilhelm Keitel signin the German Instrument o Surrender, Soviet troops in the Battle o Stalingrad
Date	1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 (6 years, 1 day)
Location	Europe, Paceefic, Atlantic, Sooth-East Asie, Cheenae, Middle East, Mediterranean an Africae, briefly North an Sooth Americae
Result	Allied victory; Collapse o the German Reich; Creation o the United Nations; ; Emergence o the Unitit States an the Soviet Union as superpouers; ; Beginnin o the Cauld War (mair...);
Belligerents
Allies; Soviet Union (1941–45); Unitit States (1941–45); Unitit Kinrick; Cheenae (1937–45); Fraunce; Poland; Canadae; Australie; New Zealand; Sooth Africae; Yugoslavie (1941–45); Greece (1940–45); Denmark (1940–45); Norawa (1940–45); Netherlands (1940–45); Belgium (1940–45); Czechoslovakie ; Brazil (1942–45); Mexico (1942–45); ...an ethers Client an puppet states; Philippines (1941–45); Mongolie (1941–45); ...an ethers	Axis; Germany; Japan ; Italy (1940–43); Hungary (1941–45); Romanie (1941–44); Bulgarie (1941–44); Co-belligerents; Finland (1941–44); Thailand (1942–45); Iraq (1941); Client and puppet states; Manchukuo; Italian Social Republic (1943–45); Croatie (1941–45); Slovakie; ...an ethers
Commanders an leaders
Joseph Stalin; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Winston Churchill; Chiang Kai-shek; ...an ethers	Adolf Hitler; Hirohito; Benito Mussolini; ...an ethers
Casualties an losses
Militar dead:; Ower 16,000,000; Civilian dead:; Over 45,000,000; Total dead:; Over 61,000,000 (1937–45); ...further details	Militar dead:; Ower 8,000,000; Civilian dead:; Over 4,000,000; Total dead:; Over 12,000,000 (1937–45); ...further details

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Footnotes

↑ 23 August 1939, the USSR an Germany sign non-aggression pact, secretly dividin Eastren Europe intae spheres o influence. USSR armistice wi Japan 16 September 1939; invades Poland 17 September 1939; attacks Finland 30 September 1939; forcibly incorporates Baltic States Juin 1940; takes eastren Romanie 4 Julie 1940. 22 Juin 1941, USSR is invaded bi European Axis; USSR aligns wi kintras fichtin Axis.
↑ Efter the fall o the Third Republic in 1940, the de facto govrenment wis the Vichy Regime. It conductit pro-Axis policies till November 1942 while remainin formally neutral. The Free French Forces, based oot o Lunnon, wur recognized bi aw Allies as the offeecial govrenment in September 1944.

[1] 23 August 1939, the USSR an Germany sign non-aggression pact, secretly dividin Eastren Europe intae spheres o influence. USSR armistice wi Japan 16 September 1939; invades Poland 17 September 1939; attacks Finland 30 September 1939; forcibly incorporates Baltic States Juin 1940; takes eastren Romanie 4 Julie 1940. 22 Juin 1941, USSR is invaded bi European Axis; USSR aligns wi kintras fichtin Axis.

[2] Efter the fall o the Third Republic in 1940, the de facto govrenment wis the Vichy Regime. It conductit pro-Axis policies till November 1942 while remainin formally neutral. The Free French Forces, based oot o Lunnon, wur recognized bi aw Allies as the offeecial govrenment in September 1944.

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