World War II
Date | 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 (1939-09-01 – 1945-09-02) (6 years and 1 day)
Location | Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean, North Africa, Horn of Africa, Australia, briefly North and South America
Result | Allied victory Collapse of Nazi Germany Fall of the Japanese and Italian Empires Allied occupations of Germany and Japan and foundation of the Italian Republic Beginning of the Nuclear Age Dissolution of the League of Nations and creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers and beginning of the Cold War (more...)
Participants
Allies | Axis
Commanders and leaders
Casualties and losses
Military dead: Over 16,000,000 Civilian dead: Over 45,000,000 Total dead: Over 61,000,000 (1937–1945) ...further details | Military dead: Over 8,000,000 Civilian dead: Over 4,000,000 Total dead: Over 12,000,000 (1937–1945) ...further details

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