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The battles on the Eastern Front of the Second World War constituted the largest military confrontation in history. The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union , Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe , and Southeast Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945.
The casualties suffered by the Western Allies in making this contribution to the defeat of the Wehrmacht were relatively light, 164,590–195,576 killed/missing, 537,590 wounded, and 78,680 taken prisoner, [64] [65] a total loss of 780,860 to 811,846 to inflict a loss of 2.8 million prisoners on the German army.
On 23 August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany which included a secret protocol that divided Eastern Europe into German and Soviet " spheres of influence ", anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. [2] Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, starting World War II.
During World War II, the Spanish State under Francisco Franco espoused neutrality as its official wartime policy. This neutrality wavered at times, and "strict neutrality" gave way to "non-belligerence" after the Fall of France in June 1940. Franco wrote to Adolf Hitler offering to join the war on 19 June 1940 in exchange for help building ...
Before America entered World War II in December 1941, individual Americans volunteered to fight against the Axis powers in other nations' armed forces. Although under American law, it was illegal for United States citizens to join the armed forces of foreign nations, and in doing so, they lost their citizenship , many American volunteers changed their nationality to Canadian .
The Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy following the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945. The joint Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) was operationally responsible for all Allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre and it ...
1,000,000+ [nb 6] The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, [43] was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the vast Pacific Ocean theater, the South West Pacific theater ...
