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World War II

Clockwise from top left: Chinese forces in the Battle of Wanjialing, Australian 25-pounder guns during the First Battle of El Alamein, German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front winter 1943–1944, US naval force in the Lingayen Gulf, Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad

Date

1 September 1939 (1939-09-01) – 2 September 1945 (1945-09-02) (6 years, 1 day)

Location

Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa, briefly North and South America

Result

Allied victory

Collapse of the German Reich
Creation of the United Nations
Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
Beginning of the Cold War (more...)

Belligerents

Allies

Soviet Union (1941–45)
United States (1941–45)
United Kingdom
China (1937–45)
France
Poland
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Yugoslavia (1941–45)
Greece (1940–45)
Denmark (1940–45)
Norway (1940–45)
Netherlands (1940–45)
Belgium (1940–45)
Czechoslovakia
Brazil (1942–45)
Mexico (1942–45)
...and others

Client and puppet states
Philippines (1941–45)
Mongolia (1941–45)

...and others

Axis

Germany
Japan
Italy (1940–43)
Hungary (1940–45)
Romania (1941–44)
Bulgaria (1941–44)

Co-belligerents
Finland (1941–44)
Thailand (1942–45)
Iraq (1941)

Client and puppet states
Manchukuo
Italian Social Republic (1943–45)
Croatia (1941–45)
Slovakia

...and others

Commanders and leaders

Allied leaders Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek

...and others

Axis leaders Adolf Hitler
Hirohito
Benito Mussolini

...and others

Casualties and losses

Military dead:
Over 16,000,000
Civilian dead:
Over 45,000,000
Total dead:
Over 61,000,000 (1937–45)
...further details

Military dead:
Over 8,000,000
Civilian dead:
Over 4,000,000
Total dead:
Over 12,000,000 (1937–45)
...further details

v t e Campaigns of World War II
Europe Poland Polish resistance Phoney War Finland Winter War Karelia Lapland Denmark and Norway Western Front 1940 Resistance 1944–1945 Alps 1940 1944 Britain Balkans Serbian Partisans Greek resistance Eastern Front Chechnya Italy Sicily Asia-Pacific China Pacific Ocean South West Pacific Franco-Thai War South-East Asia Burma and India Japan Manchuria and Northern Korea pre-war border conflicts Australia Mediterranean and Middle East North Africa Libya-Egypt Morocco-Algeria Tunisia East Africa Mediterranean Sea Adriatic Malta Iraq Syria–Lebanon Iran Dodecanese Southern France Other campaigns Americas Ecuador–Peru Antarctica Atlantic Arctic Air Warfare Strategic bombing French West Africa Indian Ocean Madagascar Coups Uruguay Norway Baltic Nations Great Serbia Romania 1941 Iraq Italy Salvador Germany Croatia Romania 1944 Bulgaria Hungary French Indochina Japan Matsue

Campaigns of World War II

Europe

Asia-Pacific

Mediterranean and Middle East

Other campaigns

Coups

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References

Footnotes

After the fall of the Third Republic in 1940, the de facto government was the Vichy Regime. It conducted pro-Axis policies until November 1942 while remaining formally neutral. The Free French Forces, based out of London, were recognized by all Allies as the official government in September 1944.