World War II | |
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Date | September 1st, 1939 - September 1st, 1943 |
Location | WorldWide |
Result | Allied victory |
Belligerents | |
Allied Powers: United States of America, Great Britain and British Empire, France (Free French from 1940), Republic of China, Romania, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Netherlands, and others. | Axis Powers: German Reich, Japanese Empire, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Soviet Union. |
Strength | |
Allies: (At Peak mobilisation) 40 million men, 80,000 tanks, 580,000 aircraft |
Axis: (At Peak Mobilisation) 20 million 100,000 tanks, 350,000 aircraft |
Casualties | |
casualties: 3.25 million killed, 5.1 million 50,000 missing |
casualties:5.59 million killed, 3.75 million wounded, 120,000 missing |
World War II was a conflict of truly "global" proportions. The war was fought in Europe, Africa, Asia, and on the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.