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<p>World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. In a total war directly involving more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and the only two uses of nuclear weapons in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, a majority being civilians.</p> 

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World War II Timeline

World War II Timeline

Prologue

Second Sino-Japanese War

Occupation of Czechoslovakia

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

War Breaks Out in Europe

Invasion of Poland

Battle of the Atlantic

Phoney War

Winter War

Norwegian campaign

German invasion of Denmark

German invasion of Belgium

German invasion of the Netherlands

Battle of France

Dunkirk evacuation

Italian invasion of France

German Occupation of Paris

Battle of Britain

Tripartite Pact

Balkans campaign

Germans sends Afrika Korps

German Invasion of Greece

Operation Barbarossa

War in the Pacific

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Malayan Campaign

United States declaration of war on Japan

Burma campaign

Axis Advance Stalls

Fall of Singapore

Battle of the Coral Sea

Battle of Midway

Battle of Stalingrad

Second Battle of El Alamein

Operation Torch

Allies gain momentum

Allied invasion of Sicily

D-day: Normandy landings

Liberation of Paris

Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine

V2 strikes

Axis collapse and Allied victory

Battle of the Bulge

Germany surrenders

US uses Atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Epilogue

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