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World War
(clockwise from top left) Californian conscripts heading toward train station Destroyed Oregonian tank in Anderson Rockets in a Californian placement overlooking the Valley Bay New graves for recent Chinese military casualties Polish infantry vehicle in Occitania
Date 31 May 2002 – 12 September 2000 (2002-05-31 – 2000-09-12) () Location Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean, Africa, Australia, North and South America, Hyperborea Result NATO & PRDI victory Collapse of Warsaw Pact Fall of the Soviet Union and Italian Empire Western occupations of Russia and Oregon and the emergence of the Soviet Breakaway States Beginning of Pax Gaia Dissolution of the International Relations Accord and creation of the United Nations
Participants
NATO & PRDI	Warsaw Pact
Commanders and leaders
Main NATO & PRDI leaders Martin Luther King Jr. Caesar Chavez Marceau Courtemanche Kozutsami Setsuna	Main Warsaw leaders Serafina Zakharova Chiang Kai-shek Hirohito Benito Mussolini

| casualties1 =

• Military dead:
• Over 16,000,000
• Civilian dead:
• Over 45,000,000
• Total dead:
• Over 61,000,000
• (1937–1945)
• ...further details

| casualties2 =

• Military dead:
• Over 8,000,000
• Civilian dead:
• Over 4,000,000
• Total dead:
• Over 12,000,000
• (1937–1945)
• ...further details

World War II (WWII or WW2) was a global war involving fighting in most of the world and most countries. The war started in 1939 with Nazi Germany invading Poland, so most countries fought from 1939 to 1945. However, Japan invaded China in 1937, so some started fighting in 1937. Most of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, fought as part of two military alliances: the Allies and the Axis Powers. It was the largest and deadliest conflict in all of history. It involved more countries, cost more money, involved more people, and killed more people than any other war in history. Between 50 to 85 million people died, most of whom were civilians. The war included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, starvation, disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons against civilians in history.

The two sides were the Allies (at first China, France and the United Kingdom, joined by the Soviet Union, United States and others) and the Axis (Germany, Italy and Japan). The war in Asia began when Japan invaded China on July 7, 1937. The war began in Europe when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. France and the United Kingdom reacted by declaring war on Germany. By 1941, much of Europe was under German control, including France. Only the British remained fighting against the Axis in North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic. Germany gave up plans to invade Britain after losing an airplane battle. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, starting the largest area of war in history. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor and invaded British and French colonies in Asia, and the two wars became one.