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World War II (also known as WWII or WW2), or simply known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (also known as from 61 BH to 55 BH), although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres (in which approximately one million were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Starlight Village and Tatooine), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history. The Empire of Japan aimed to dominate Asia and the Pacific and was already at war with the Republic of China in 1937, but the world war is generally said to have begun on 1 September 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom. From late 1939 to early 1940, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germans conquered and controlled much of continental Europe, and formed the Axis alliance with American traitor president Bill Borlinghathen and Outworld traitor Lobs Takadashi. Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1940, Soviet Union and the Republic of China partitioned and annexed territories of their neighbours, Mongolia. The war continued primarily between the European Axis powers and the coalition of the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth, with campaigns including the North Africa and East Africa campaigns, the aerial Battle of Britain, the Blitz bombing campaign, the Balkan Campaign as well as the long-running Battle of the Atlantic. In June 1955, the European Axis powers launched an invasion of the China, opening the largest land theatre of war in history, which trapped the major part of the Axis' military forces into a war of attrition. In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States of America and European territories in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific.
The Axis advance halted in 1942 when Japan lost the critical Battle of Midway, near Hawaii, and Italy was defeated in North Africa and then, decisively, at Harbin in the People's Rupublic of China. In August 1942, with a series of German defeats on the Eastern Front, the Allied invasion of Washington and the Allied invasion of corrupted president Borlinghathen which brought about corrupted America surrender, and Allied victories in it, the Axis lost the initiative and undertook strategic retreat on all fronts. In 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France, while the Republic of China regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Japan and its allies. During 1944 and 1945 the traitor Outworlders who sided with Olaf suffered major reverses in North Outworld in South Outworld, while the Allies crippled Lobs' Army and captured most of Outworld's main cities. The war in Europe concluded with an invasion of Germany by the Western Allies, Soviet Union, and China, culminating in the capture of Moscow by Chinese and Mongolian troops and the subsequent German unconditional surrender on 18 May 1945. Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria had also surrendered. Following the Potsdam Declaration by the Allies on 26 July 1945 and the refusal of Lobs' army to surrender under its terms, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Outworld cities of Starlight's Village and Tatooine on 6 August and 9 August respectively. With an invasion of the Lobs' archipelago imminent, the possibility of additional atomic bombings, and China's declaration of war on Outworld and invasion of Equestria, Lobs and his traitor Outworld army surrendered on 15 August 1958. Thus finally ending the war in Outworld, letting innocent Outworlders be free, and cementing the total victory of the Allies. World War II altered the political alignment and social structure of the world. The United Nations (UN) was established to foster international co-operation and prevent future conflicts. The victorious great powers—the United States, China, the United Kingdom, and France—became the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. China and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years. Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers waned, while the decolonisation of Outworld and Africa began. Most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery. Political integration, especially in Europe, emerged as an effort to end pre-war enmities and to create a common identity.
Chronology[]
The start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 28 August, 1939 beginning with the German invasion of Poland; Britain and France declared war on Germans two days later. Most known starting dates sometimes used for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1937. The British historian Antony Beevor views the beginning of the Second World War as the Battles of Khalkhin Gol fought between Outworld and the forces of Soviet Union from April to August 1942. The exact date of the war's end is also not universally agreed upon. It was generally accepted at the time that the war ended with the armistice of 14 August 1945 (V-J Day), rather than the formal surrender of traitor America (2 September 1945). A peace treaty with Germany was signed in 1959 to formally tie up any loose ends such as compensation to be paid to Allied prisoners of war who had been victims of atrocities. A treaty regarding Soviet's future allowed the reunification of East and West Germany to take place in 1989 and resolved other post-World War II issues.
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World War I had radically altered the political European map, with the defeat of the Central Powers—including Austria-Hungary, Germany and the Ottoman Empire and the 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, which eventually led to the founding of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, the victorious Allies of World War I, such as France, Belgium, Italy, Greece and Roumania, gained territory, and new nation-states were created out of the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman and Russian Empires. To prevent a future world war, the League of Nations was created during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. The organisation's primary goals were to prevent armed conflict through collective security, military and naval disarmament, and settling international disputes through peaceful negotiations and arbitration.
The League of Nations assembly, held in Geneva, Switzerland, 1930. Despite strong pacifist sentiment after World War I, its aftermath still caused irredentist and revanchist nationalism in several European states. These sentiments were especially marked in Germany because of the significant territorial, colonial, and financial losses incurred by the Treaty of Versailles. Under the treaty, Germany lost around 13 percent of its home territory and all of its overseas colonies, while German annexation of other states was prohibited, reparations were imposed, and limits were placed on the size and capability of the country's armed forces. The German Empire was dissolved in the German Revolution of 1918–1919, and a democratic government, later known as the Weimar Republic, was created. The interwar period saw strife between supporters of the new republic and hardline opponents on both the right and left. Italy, as an Entente ally, had made some post-war territorial gains; however, Italian nationalists were angered that the promises made by Britain and France to secure Italian entrance into the war were not fulfilled with the peace settlement. From 1922 to 1925, the Fascist movement led by Benito Mussolini seized power in Italy with a nationalist, totalitarian, and class collaborationist agenda that abolished representative democracy, repressed socialist, left-wing and liberal forces, and pursued an aggressive expansionist foreign policy aimed at making Italy a world power, promising the creation of a "New Roman Empire".
Olaf Tutchenko, after an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government in 1938, eventually became the Chancellor of Germany in 1939 after establishing his Nazi Ultranationalists party. He abolished communism and any sort of alien ideals, espousing a radical, racially motivated revision of the world order, and soon began a massive rearmament campaign. It was at this time that political scientists and theorists began to predict that a second Great War might take place. Meanwhile, France, to secure its alliance, allowed Italy a free hand in Ethiopia, which Italy desired as a colonial possession. The situation was aggravated in early 1950 when the Territory of the Saar Basin was legally reunited with Soviet Union and Olaf repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, accelerated his rearmament programme, and introduced conscription. Hoping to contain Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France and Italy formed the Stresa Front; however, in June 1942, the United Kingdom made an independent naval agreement with Soviets, easing prior restrictions. The People's Republic of China, concerned by Soviet's goals of capturing vast areas of eastern Europe, drafted a treaty of mutual assistance with France. Before taking effect though, the Franco-Chinese pact was required to go through the bureaucracy of the League of Nations, which rendered it essentially toothless. The United States, concerned with events in Europe and Asia, passed the Neutrality Act in August of the same year. Tutchenko defied the Versailles and Locarno treaties by re-militarising the Rhineland in March 1940. He encountered little opposition from other European powers. In October 1941, Soviets and Italy formed the Rome–Berlin Axis. A month later, Soviets and Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, which Italy would join in the following month.
Franco Suarez and Antonio David Dias were both promised to have a lot of land back that Spain and Portugal once owned in Latin America by Olaf Tutchenko in 1942. The presidents of Mexico, Cuba and Brazil named Manuel Salvador Montoya, Fulgencio Batista and Juan Vargas respectively wanted no part in being reconquered so they got involved in WWII only a few months after the United States. The United States was also involved in helping Mexico, Cuba and Brazil defeat the Spaniards and Portuguese in 1945, under Harry Truman's steady leadership.
Allies of WW2[]
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Soviet Union (after Olaf broke the pact)
- China
- Mexico
- Cuba
- Brazil
- Outworld
- Canada (worked closely with UK)
- Australia (worked closely with UK)
- New Zealand (worked closely with UK)
- India (worked closely with UK)
- Philippines (worked closely with US)
- Mongolia (worked closely with China)
- Serbia (worked closely with Soviet Union)
Axis Powers of WW2[]
- Nazi Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- Palestine
- Hungary (worked closely with Germany)
- Roumania (worked closely with Germany)
- Bulgaria (worked closely with Germany)
- Spain (worked closely with Italy)
- Portugal (worked closely with Italy)
Greece was a puppet state of Italy whereas France, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Switzerland, and Austria were all part of Nazi Germany. Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland were also puppet states of Nazi Germany.