World War II/Infobox

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
Date	1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 (6 years, 1 day)
Location	Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa, briefly North and South America
Result	Allied victory; Dissolution of the German Reich, Empire of Japan and Italian Empire; Creation of the United Nations; ; Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers; ; Beginning of the Cold War (more...);
Belligerents
Allies; Soviet Union (1941–45); United States (1941–45); United Kingdom; China (1937–45); France; Poland; Canada; Australia; New Zealand; South Africa; 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 ; 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; Italian Social Republic (1943–45); Croatia (1941–45); Slovakia; ...and others
Commanders and leaders
Allied leaders; Joseph Stalin; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Winston Churchill; Chiang Kai-shek; ...and others	Axis leaders; Adolf Hitler; Hirohito; Benito Mussolini; ...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

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