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World War II
Adolf Hitler, German leader who launched the war
D-Day Invasion of Normandy, turning point of the war
Holocaust
World War II in American history
World War II in British history
World War II in French history
World War II in German history
World War II in Italian history
World War II in Japanese history
major phases of the war
Q & A About Western Europe
see also World War I
turning points in the war
1939: German blitzkrieg overwhelms Poland
1940: Britain survives German air assault
1941: Battle of Moscow: Germany's first great land defeat
1941: United States enters war after Pearl Harbor
1942: Japanese expansion ends after Battle of Midway
1943: last German offensive in the east defeated at Stalingrad
1944: Normandy invasion creates second front, liberates France
1945: Japan surrenders after bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
War in the Pacific
50-year commemorations of the war (archives)
Allied Powers
archive articles (events by year)
art, film, and literature about the war
art, music, and literature during the war
atrocities, concentration camps, and war crimes
Axis Powers
battles
causes of World War II
clocks on "war time" in U.S. and Britain
conferences and treaties
declarations of War 1939–45 (table)
end of the war
events in Afghanistan
events in Africa
events in Albania
events in Arctic
events in Argentina
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events in Latin America
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events in Portugal
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events in Sicily
events in Singapore
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events in South Africa
events in Southeast Asia
events in Spain
events in Sri Lanka
events in Sweden
events in Switzerland
events in Syria
events in Thailand
events in Turkey
events in Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
events in United States
events in West Indies
events in Yugoslavia
international law
leaders and participants
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museums, monuments and memorials
neutral nations
nuclear warfare
Pacific theater
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results of the war
tactics and weapons
U.S. presidents during World War II
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women during World War II
World War II
World War II, global military conflict that, in terms of lives lost and material destruction, was the most devastating war in human history. It began...
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