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Details
- Instance of
- world war, historical period
- Subclass of
- war
- Start time
- 1 September 1939
- End time
- 2 September 1945
- Has parts
- Pacific War, Eastern Front, Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, Normandy landings, Battle of the Bulge, Operation Flashpoint, Mediterranean and Middle East Theater of World War II, Middle East Theater of World War II, Battle of Aachen, Battle of the Scheldt, Operation Barbarossa
- Follows
- World War I, interwar period
- Followed by
- aftermath of World War II, Trente Glorieuses, Cold War, World War III
- Location
- Russia, Europe, Africa, Pacific Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Scandinavia, Indian Ocean, South Asia
- Participants
- Axis Powers, Allies of World War II, Nazi Germany, Australia, United Kingdom, Taiwan
- category for maps or plans
- Category:Maps of World War II
- category of associated people
- Category:People of World War II
- described by source
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, New World Encyclopedia, Pax Leksikon
- has cause
- Treaty of Versailles, causes of World War II, Adolf Hitler, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, providentialism, revanchism, fascism, chauvinism
- has effect
- British pet massacre, The Holocaust, atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bombing of Dresden, Allies of World War II, Nazi Germany, Empire of Japan, allied-occupied Germany, Austria, League of Nations, United Nations, United States
- has immediate cause
- Secret Additional Protocol to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
- hashtag
- world_war_ii, ww2, wwii
- history of topic
- timeline of World War II, diplomatic history of World War II
- number of deaths
- 73000000
- order of battle
- French army 1939-1940, British First Army order of battle, 4 May 1943, Order of battle for 7th Armoured Division, Order of battle of RAF Coastal Command, Supplementary Order of Battle, Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland order of battle, Imperial Japanese Navy order of battle 1941
- short name
- WWII, WW2, SWW, SGM
- significant person
- Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Hirohito
- time period
- newest history, late modern period
- topic has template
- Template:World War II
- topic's main category
- Category:World War II
- topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Portal:World War II
- Wikimedia outline
- outline of World War II