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World War II
	; (clockwise from top left) Chinese forces in the Battle of Wanjialing; Australian 25-pounder guns during the First Battle of El Alamein; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front in December 1943; US naval force in the Lingayen Gulf; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender; Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad;
Date	1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945; (6 years and 1 day);
Location	Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean, North Africa, Horn of Africa, Australia, briefly North and South America
Result	Allied victory; Collapse of Nazi Germany; Fall of the Japanese and Italian Empires; Allied occupations of Germany and Japan and foundation of the Italian Republic; Beginning of the Nuclear Age; Dissolution of the League of Nations and creation of the United Nations; Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers and beginning of the Cold War (more ...);
Participants
Allies United Kingdom; Canada; Australia; New Zealand; South Africa; India; France French Third Republic (1939 - '40); Free France (1940 - '44); Provisional Government of the French Republic (From 1944); United States (From December 1941); Soviet Union (From June 1941); China; Poland; Greece; Netherlands; Belgium; Brazil; Paraguay; Mexico; Cuba; Bahrain; Mongolia; Ethiopia; Morocco (From November 1942); Nepal; ...and several others	Axis powers Nazi Germany; Italy Kingdom of Italy (1939 - '43); Italian Social Republic (1943 - '45); Imperial Japan; Bulgaria; Romania; Hungary; Finland (1941 - '44); Thailand; Iraq (1941); States established by Axis supporters Slovakia; Croatia; Vichy France; Morocco (1940 - '42) ; Syria; Lebanon; Subtle Axis support (Neutrality in name only) Spain Philippine Falange; Co-belligerents Soviet Union (Until 1941); Danzig; Azad Hind Kesatuan Melayu Muda
Commanders and leaders
Main Allied leaders Joseph Stalin; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Winston Churchill; Chiang Kai-shek;	Main Axis leaders Adolf Hitler; Hirohito; Benito Mussolini;
Casualties and losses
Military dead:; Over 16,000,000; Civilian dead:; Over 45,000,000; Total dead:; Over 61,000,000; (1937–1945); ...further details;	Military dead:; Over 8,000,000; Civilian dead:; Over 4,000,000; Total dead:; Over 12,000,000; (1937–1945); ...further details;

^ Maghraoui, Driss (2014-08-08). "The goumiers in the Second World War: history and colonial representation". The Journal of North African Studies. 19 (4): 571–586. doi:10.1080/13629387.2014.948309. ISSN 1362-9387.

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[:41-1] Maghraoui, Driss (2014-08-08). "The goumiers in the Second World War: history and colonial representation". The Journal of North African Studies. 19 (4): 571–586. doi:10.1080/13629387.2014.948309. ISSN 1362-9387.

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