World War II (Treaty of Sévres)

World War II
Date 1 September 1939 – 19 September 1945 (6 years, 2 weeks and 4 days) Location Worldwide Result Allied victory Fall of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Ottoman Empire, and Imperial Japan Allied military occupations of Germany, Japan, Austria, Anatolia and Korea Beginning of the Nuclear Age Dissolution of the League of Nations and creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States, the Commonwealth and the Soviet Union as superpowers and beginning of the Cold War
Belligerents
Allies British Empire United States (from 1941) Soviet Union (from 1941) China France Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Norway Denmark	Axis Germany Italy Japan Ottoman Empire Hungary (from 1940) Romania (1940–1944) Iraq (1941–1942)

World War II or the Second World War (WWII or WW2) was a global war that took place from 1939 to 1945. It was fought between the Allied powers and the Axis powers. The war oversaw the constant rise of new technologies, including the invention of the nuclear bombs which were used on Japan. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 90 to 110 million fatalities, a majority being civilians. Tens of millions of people died due to genocides, starvation, massacres, and disease. In the wake of the Axis defeat, Nazi Germany, Italy, Japan, the Ottoman Empire and other Axis powers were occupied, and war crimes tribunals were conducted against all respective leaders. The end of the World War II, saw the rise of communism and Cold War, respectively.