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World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries including all the great powers eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people from more than 30 countries. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources.
World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries including all the great powers eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people from more than 30 countries. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources.
World
War II was the deadliest conflict in human history,
marked by 70 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom
were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. Tens of millions of people
died during the conflict due to genocides (including the
Holocaust), premeditated death from starvation,
massacres,
and disease. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict
which included the use of terror bombing, strategic
bombing and the only use of nuclear
weapons in war.
Rising
to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and
his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic
treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination.
Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to
declare war on Germany, and World War II had begun.
The
war in Europe concluded with an invasion of Germany by the Western
Allies and the Soviet Union, culminating in the capture
of Berlin by Soviet troops, the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945. Following the Potsdam Declaration by the Allies on 26 July
1945 and the refusal of Japan to surrender under its terms, the United States dropped atomic bombs on
the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, respectively. Japan announced to
surrender on 15 August 1945, cementing total victory in Asia for the Allies.
Over
the next six years, the conflict took more lives and destroy more land
and property around the globe than any previous war. Among the estimated 45-60
million people killed were 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps
as part of Hitler’s diabolical “Final Solution,” now known as the Holocaust.
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