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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 winter 1943–1944, US naval force in the Lingayen Gulf, Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad
Date1 September 1939 (1939-09-01) – 2 September 1945 (1945-09-02) (6 years, 1 day)
Location
Result

Allied victory

Belligerents

Allies
 Soviet Union (1941–45)[nb 1]
 United States (1941–45)
 United Kingdom
 China (at war 1937–45)
 France[nb 2]
 Poland
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 South Africa
 Newfoundland
 Denmark (1940–45)
 Yugoslavia (1941–45)
 Greece (1940–45)
 Norway (1940–45)
 Netherlands (1940–45)
 Belgium (1940–45)
 Czechoslovakia
 Brazil (1942–45)
 Mexico (1942–45)
...and others


Client and puppet states
Philippines (1941–45)
Mongolia (1941–45)

...and others

Axis
 Germany
 Japan (at war 1937–45)
 Italy (1940–43)
 Hungary (1940–45)
 Romania (1941–44)
 Bulgaria (1941–44)


Co-belligerents
 Finland (1941–44)
 Thailand (1942–45)
 Iraq (1941)


Client and puppet states
 Manchukuo
 Croatia (1941–45)
 Slovakia

...and others
Commanders and leaders

Allied leaders

Soviet Union Joseph Stalin
United States Franklin D. Roosevelt
United Kingdom Winston Churchill
Republic of China (1912–1949) Chiang Kai-shek
France Charles De Gaulle
Poland Ignacy Mościcki
Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King
New Zealand Peter Fraser
Union of South Africa Jan Smuts
Dominion of Newfoundland Humphrey T. Walwyn
Denmark Thorvald Stauning
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito
Kingdom of Greece Alexander Papagos
Norway Johan Nygaardsvold
Netherlands Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy
Belgium Hubert Pierlot
Czechoslovakia Edvard Beneš
Brazil Getúlio Vargas
Mexico Manuel Ávila Camacho
Manuel L. Quezon
Gonchigiin Bumtsend

...and others

Axis leaders
Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler
Empire of Japan Hirohito
Kingdom of Italy Benito Mussolini
Kingdom of Hungary Miklós Horthy
Kingdom of Romania Ion Antonescu
Tsardom of Bulgaria (1908–1946) Bogdan Filov
Finland Risto Ryti
Thailand Plaek Phibunsongkhram
 Iraq Rashid Ali al-Gaylani
 Manchukuo Zhang Jinghui
 Croatia Ante Pavelić
 Slovakia Risto Ryti

...and others
Casualties and losses
Military dead:
Over 16,000,000
Civilian dead:
Over 45,000,000
Total dead:
Over 61,000,000 (1937–45)
...further details
Military dead:
Over 8,000,000
Civilian dead:
Over 4,000,000
Total dead:
Over 12,000,000 (1937–45)
...further details

References

Footnotes
  1. ^ 23 August 1939, the USSR and Germany sign non-aggression pact, secretly dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence. USSR armistice with Japan 16 September 1939; invades Poland 17 September 1939; attacks Finland 30 September 1939; forcibly incorporates Baltic States June 1940; takes eastern Romania 4 July 1940. 22 June 1941, USSR is invaded by European Axis; USSR aligns with countries fighting Axis.
  2. ^ After the fall of the Third Republic in 1940, the de facto government was the Vichy Regime. It conducted pro-Axis policies until November 1942 while remaining formally neutral. The Free French Forces, based out of London, were recognized by all Allies as the official government in September 1944.