World War II
Clockwise from top: Allied landing on Normandy beaches on D-Day, the gate of a Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, Red Army soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, the Nagasaki atom bomb, and German police entering Austria. Date Location Result
September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 Europe, Pacific, South-East Asia, Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa Allied victory. Creation of the United Nations. Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers. Creation of First World and Second World spheres of influence in Europe leading to the Cold War. (more...) Combatants
Allied powers:
Axis powers:
Soviet Union United States United Kingdom China France ...et al.
Germany Japan Italy ...et al.
Commanders Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Franklin Roosevelt Winston Churchill
Hirohito Benito Mussolini 1