World_War_II
The largest armed conflict ever. It had its beginnings in
Japan's invasion of China (Sino-Japanese War) in the 1930s and Germany's invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939, as well as the invasions of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Finland by the Soviet Union, also in 1939.
On June 22, 1941, Germany invaded Russia, ending a two year alliance between the two countries.
On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into the war. Japan then invaded numerous Pacific Islands and countries in Southeast Asia. Germany declared war on the United States shortly after Pearl Harbor.
The combatants after 1941 were:
*Allied powers
China
United Kingdom
*Axis powers
Romania
It ended in 1945 with the defeat of the Axis powers.
*Major battles of World War Two
/Pearl Harbor
/Midway
/Guadalcanal
/Battle of the Atlantic
/Leyte Gulf
/Stalingrad
*Major figures of World War Two
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Chester Nimitz
George Patton
Franklin Roosevelt
Winston Chruchill
Benito Mussolini
Charles DeGaulle
Adolph Hitler
Chiang Kai-Shek
Josph Stalin
Hideki Tojo
WW II and WWII are abbreviations of World War II.
See also: World War I
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