1939–1945 global conflict. World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers...
Grouping of the victorious countries of the war. Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers. Its principal members by the end...
List of human losses by participating country. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about...
Events after the end of the war in 1945. aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two global superpowers, the United States (U.S.) and the Soviet Union (USSR). The aftermath of World War II was also...
List of participating countries and their involvement. the world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but relatively few nations remained neutral to the end. World War II pitted...
of World War II. Timeline of events preceding World War II Timeline of World War II (1939) Timeline of World War II (1940) Timeline of World War II (1941)...
Reparations paid by Germany. After World War II, both the Federal Republic and Democratic Republic of Germany were obliged to pay war reparations to the Allied governments, according...
Theater of World War II. The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theatre, was the theatre of World War II fought between the Empire of Japan and the...
The causes of World War II have been given considerable attention by historians. The immediate precipitating event was the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany...
Tanks were an important weapons system in World War II. Although tanks in the inter-war years were the subject of widespread research, few were made,...
List of theatres and campaigns of World War II subdivides military operations of World War II and contemporary wars by war, then by theater and then by campaign...
War crimes and massacres in World War II (1939-1945). World War II saw the largest scale of war crimes and crimes against humanity ever committed in an armed conflict, mostly against civilians and specific...
