World War II

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This is an event that has taken place.

World War II
Date
26 February 1938 - 27 September 1943 (5 years, 7 months and 1 day
Location
Europe, Mediterranean, North Africa, Horn of Africa, Siberia, China, Manchuria
Result
Trans-Pacific Treaty Organisation and Entente victory
  • Fall of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
  • Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Comintern
    • Beginning of the Second Russian Civil War
  • Fall of Manchuria and Communist China
  • Dissolution of the League of Nations and creation of the United Nations
  • Emergence and expansion of the two victor factions
    • Early signs of the coming Cold War
  • Unprecedented time of global cooperation for the following decade
Participants
Axis
  • Germany
    • Slovakia
  • Italy
  • Hungary
  • Romania
  • Bulgaria
  • Manchuria
    • Xibei
    • Shanxi
Comintern
  • USSR
    • Tannu Tuva
  • Mongolia
  • China
  • Xinjiang
  • Spain
Entente
  • United Kingdom
    • Australia
    • Canada
    • India
    • New Zealand
    • South Africa
  • France
  • Poland
  • Yugoslavia
  • Norway
  • Denmark
  • Netherlands
  • Belgium
  • Luxembourg
  • Portugal
  • Greece
TPTO
  • Japan
    • Indochina
    • Malaysia
    • Indonesia
  • Korea
  • United States

World War II, also known as the Second World War, WWII, or WW2, was a global conflict that lasted from 1938 to 1943. It involved all great powers and saw the collapse of the Axis and the Comintern and the rise of the Trans-Pacific Treaty Organisation and the Pan-European Entente.