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World War II
	; Clockwise from top left: Chinese forces in the Battle of Wanjialing, Australian 25-pounder guns during the First Battle of El Alamein, German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front in December 1943, a US naval force in the Lingayen Gulf, Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad
Date	1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 (6 years, 1 day)
Location	Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean, North Africa and Horn of Africa, briefly North and South America
Result	Allied victory; Collapse of the Third Reich; Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires; Creation of the United Nations; ; Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers; ; Beginning of the Cold War (more...).;
Participants
Allies	Axis
Commanders and leaders
Allied leaders Joseph Stalin; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Winston Churchill; Chiang Kai-shek;	Axis leaders Adolf Hitler; Hirohito; Benito Mussolini;
Casualties and losses
Military dead:; Over 16,000,000; Civilian dead:; Over 45,000,000; Total dead:; Over 61,000,000 (1937–45); ...further details	Military dead:; Over 8,000,000; Civilian dead:; Over 4,000,000; Total dead:; Over 12,000,000 (1937–45); ...further details

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^ Various other dates have been proposed as the date on which World War II began or ended.

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 <!--NOTE: The consensus of a discussion which concluded in November 2014 at [[Talk:World War II#Request for comment: WWII infobox]] was to only list the 'Allies' and 'Axis' as combatants. PLEASE do not change this without first obtaining consensus for the change -->
+| combatants_header = [[Participants in World War II|Participants]]
 |combatant1 =[[Allies of World War II|'''Allies''']]
 |combatant2 =[[Axis powers|'''Axis''']]