Second World War (Deutsches Europa)

World War II
Clockwise from top left: Chinese forces marching through Burma, Australian 25-pounder guns during the First Battle of El Alamein, German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front winter 1943–1944, Japanese forces take cover behind a tank in the Battle of Hongcheon, Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad
Date September 1, 1939 – September 1, 1945 (Six years) Location Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean, Africa, North and South America Result Allied victory Collapse of Soviet Russia Fall of the American and British Empires Dissolution of Communist Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Croatia. Allied military occupations of Russia, America, France and foundation of the British Republic Beginning of the Nuclear Age Creation of the Vereinte Nationen Emergence of Japan and Germany as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War (more ...).
Belligerents
Allies Germany Japan Italy Ottomania Among others	Axis Russia United States United Kingdom Among others