This is an event that has taken place.
World War II
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Date 26 February 1938 - 27 September 1943 (5 years, 7 months and 1 day
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Location Europe, Mediterranean, North Africa, Horn of Africa, Siberia, China, Manchuria
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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
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Participants
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Axis
- Germany
- Italy
- Hungary
- Romania
- Bulgaria
- Manchuria
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Comintern
- USSR
- Mongolia
- China
- Xinjiang
- Spain
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Entente
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- Canada
- India
- New Zealand
- South Africa
- France
- Poland
- Yugoslavia
- Norway
- Denmark
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Portugal
- Greece
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TPTO
- Japan
- Indochina
- Malaysia
- Indonesia
- Korea
- United States
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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.