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World War II
	Clockwise from top left: Chinese forces in the Battle of Changde; Australian 25-pounder guns during the First Battle of El Alamein; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front in December 1943; US naval force in the Lingayen Gulf; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender; Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad;
Date	1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945; (6 years and 1 day);
Location	Europe; Pacific; Atlantic; Indian Ocean; South-East Asia; China; Japan; Middle East; Mediterranean; North Africa; Horn of Africa; Central Africa; Australia; North and South America;
Result	Allied victory; Fall of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan; Allied military occupations of Germany, Japan, Austria and Korea; 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 (See Aftermath of World War II);
Participants
Allies	Axis
Commanders and leaders
Main Allied leaders: Joseph Stalin; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Winston Churchill; Chiang Kai-shek;	Main Axis leaders: Adolf Hitler; Hirohito; Benito Mussolini;
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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