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-World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a global war that involves vitually by the hostilities, with a vast majority countries in every part of the world. It is a worldwide military conflict which including by all of the great powers and forming two opposing combatant alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. The war was lasted from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945, from Europe and North Africa in the east and the Asia-Pacific in the west covering by two-thirds of land area. In a total war directly involving more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries across the globe, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, were used for reconnaissance, as fighters, bombers, and ground-support, and each role was advanced considerably, and of strategic bombing was enabling to targeting the enemy industrial and population centres to destroy the enemy's ability and the only two uses of nuclear weapons in the war. World War II was the deadliest, destructive and largest military conflict in human history. An estimated total of 70-85 million fatalities, including military and the majority of civilians was directly caused by the war. Tens of millions of people died due to genocides (including the Holocaust of 6.3 million Jews murdered), starvation, massacres, and disease. In the wake of the Axis defeat, Germany and Japan were occupied, and war crimes tribunals were conducted against German and Japanese leaders.