World war ii

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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


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