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The Second World War is the name that historiography has called the military conflict which involved between 1939 and 1945 most of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, arrangedin two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
  Including the mass murder of civilians, the Holocaust and use first and last nuclear weapons in a military conflict, this was thedeadliest conflict in human history; with a final score of 50 to 70 million victims.

Started on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland, the first step to war Nazi Germany in itsattempt to found an empire in Europe, which produced an immediate declaration of war by France and most countries the British Empire and Commonwealth to the Third Reich.

From late 1939 until early1941, thanks to a dazzling series of military campaigns and the signing of treaties, Germany conquered or subjected much of continental Europe. Based on agreements between the Nazis and the Soviets, thenominally neutral Soviet Union occupied or annexed territories of the six neighboring nations with the shared border in the west. The UK and the Commonwealth remained the only major force capable offighting against the Axis Powers in North Africa and a large naval warfare. In June 1941 the European Axis Powers began an invasion of the Soviet Union, thus initiating the largest land warfareoperation in history, where since that time, the greater part of the military power of the Axis. In December 1941 the Empire of Japan, which had been at war with China since 1937 and tried to expand hisdominions in Asia, attacked the United States and the European possessions in the Pacific Ocean, quickly conquering much of the region.
The Axis advance was arrested in 1942 after Japan's defeat inseveral battles and the European Axis troops in North Africa and the decisive battle of Stalingrad. In 1943, following the various setbacks of the Germans in Eastern Europe, the Allied invasion of...