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Hace 2 días · Start and end dates. History. Aftermath. Impact. See also. Notes. Citations. References. External links. World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two major alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
- Allied victory
The First World War is a seminal historical event; an historical caesura whose aftershocks still resonate. For Eric Hobsbawm, it began the ‘Age of Extremes’ – the start of the ‘short’ twentieth century lasting from 1914 to 1991 in which fascism, communism and liberal democracy clashed for world hegemony.
Hace 4 días · September 3, 1939 - September 2, 1945. Participants: Australia. Axis powers. Czechoslovakia. Free French. Iraq. Poland. United Kingdom. United States. Yugoslavia. Allied powers. Major Events: Battle of Crete. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Battle of Saipan. Battle of Moscow.
- World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on S...
- The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, an...
- The Allied powers were led by Winston Churchill (United Kingdom); Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union); Charles de Gaulle (France); and Franklin D. Rooseve...
- The war in the Pacific turned against Japan during the Battle of Midway (June 3–6, 1942), an American victory that destroyed the Japanese first-lin...
- The Allied landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944, opened a second front in Europe, and Germany’s abortive offensive at the Ardennes in the winter of...
- Estimates of the total number of people killed during World War II have ranged from 35,000,000 to 60,000,000—a significant span, because statistics...
Hace 6 días · They cover a broad range of topics including the economy, the press, the military, arms, territorial disputes, and others. The collection also includes speeches, sermons, bulletins, calendars, and songbooks. Covers 1894-1918. World War History: Newspaper Clippings, 1914 to 1926.
- Kelly L. Smith
- 2009
Hace 2 días · The Eastern Front or Eastern Theater of World War I ( German: Ostfront; Romanian: Frontul de răsărit; Russian: Восточный фронт, romanized : Vostochny front) was a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between Russia and Romania on one side and Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and Germany ...
Hace 2 días · The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun [bataj də vɛʁdœ̃]; German: Schlacht um Verdun [ʃlaxt ʔʊm ˈvɛɐ̯dœ̃]) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse.
Hace 1 día · A Social and Economic History. Dr Peter Waldron, review of Russia’s First World War. A Social and Economic History, (review no. 491) The First World War is Russia’s ‘forgotten war’. After the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, the memory of the war was subsumed into the history of the revolutionary process.
