World War 2

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"***World War 2, also called Second World War, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45.***

The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China.

The war was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I. The 40,000,000–50,000,000 deaths incurred in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in history.

Along with World War I, World War II was one of the great watersheds of 20th-century geopolitical history.

It resulted in the extension of the Soviet Union’s power to nations of Eastern Europe, enabled a communist movement to eventually achieve power in China, and marked the decisive shift of power in the world away from the states of Western Europe and toward the United States and the Soviet Union.

Coming just two decades after the last great global conflict, the Second World War was the most widespread and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries and resulting in more than 50 million military and civilian deaths (with some estimates as high as 85 million dead).

Sparked by Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, the war would drag on for six deadly years until the final Allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945.

World war 2 App some features:

Forces and resources of the European combatants, 1939.

Technology of war, 1918–39.

The war in Europe, 1939–41.

The campaign in Poland, 1939.

The Baltic States and the Russo-Finnish War, 1939–40.

The war in the west, September 1939–June 1940.

The Battle of Britain.

Central Europe and the Balkans, 1940–41.

Other fronts, 1940–41.

Egypt and Cyrenaica, 1940–summer 1941.

East Africa.

Iraq and Syria, 1940–41.

The beginning of lend-lease.

The Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1940–41.

German strategy, 1939–42.

Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941.

The war in the Pacific, 1938–41.

The war in China, 1937–41.

Japanese policy, 1939–41.

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