Some 20 years after the end of World War I, lingering disputes erupted in an even larger and bloodier conflict—World War II. The war began in Europe in 1939, but by its end in 1945 it had involved nearly every part of the world.
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A German armored division takes part in the invasion of Poland in 1939, at the start of World War II.
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Allies dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, effectively ending the war in Japan.
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a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country.
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World War 2 was fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) and the Allied Powers (Britain, United States, Soviet Union, France). 61 countries with 1.7 billion people, three quarters of the world's population were involved in some way. It was the deadliest war in all of human history with around 70 million people killed.
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