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World War II
World War II montage image
Clockwise from top: Allied landing on Normandy beaches on D-Day, the gates of a Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, Red Army soldiers raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, the Nagasaki atom bomb, and Nazi soldiers marching into Austria.
DateSeptember 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945
LocationEurope, Pacific, South-East Asia, Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa
Result Pyrrhic 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...)
Belligerents
Allies of World War II Axis powers of World War II
Commanders and leaders
Allied leaders of World War II Axis leaders of World War II
Casualties and losses
Military dead:
Over 14,000,000
Civilian dead:
Over 36,000,000
Total dead:
Over 50,000,000
...further details.		 Military dead:
Over 8,000,000
Civilian dead:
Over 4,000,000
Total dead
Over 12,000,000
...further details.