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World War II
World War II is the deadliest and most geographically expansive armed conflict in recorded history, fought from 1939 to 1945 across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, resulting in an estimated 70 to 85 million deaths.
Overview
The war engaged the vast majority of the world's nations organized into the Allies and Axis powers, and was distinguished by industrial-scale warfare, the Holocaust — the systematic genocide of six million Jews and millions of others — the first and only wartime use of nuclear weapons, and the collapse of multiple imperial orders.
Why it matters
The war fundamentally restructured the global political order, ending European colonial dominance, establishing the United States and Soviet Union as competing superpowers, and producing the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Nuremberg Trials as new frameworks for international law and government accountability.
Where it leads
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