World War II/Infobox

World War II
Clockwise from top left: Chinese forces in the Battle of Wanjialing, Australian 25-pounder guns during the First Battle of El Alamein, German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front winter 1943–1944, US naval force in the Lingayen Gulf, Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Surrender, Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad
Date 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 Location Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa, briefly North America Result Allied victory Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War. (more...)
Belligerents
Allies Soviet Union (1941–45) United States (1941–45) British Empire China (at war 1937–45) France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa Nepal Yugoslavia (1941–45) Norway (1940–45) Netherlands (1940–45) Belgium (1940–45) Greece (1940–45) ...and others	Axis Germany Japan (at war with China 1937–45) Italy (1940–43) Hungary (1941–45) Romania (1941–44) Bulgaria (1941–44) Co-belligerents Finland (1941–44) Iraq (1941) Iran (1941) Thailand (1942–45) Puppet states Manchukuo Vichy France(1940–44) Croatia (1941–45) Slovakia ...and others
Commanders and leaders
Allied leaders Joseph Stalin Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill ...and others	Axis leaders Adolf Hitler Hirohito Benito Mussolini ...and others
Casualties and losses
Military dead: Over 16,000,000 Civilian dead: Over 45,000,000 Total dead: Over 61,000,000 (1937–45) ...further details	Military dead: Over 8,000,000 Civilian dead: Over 4,000,000 Total dead: Over 12,000,000 (1937–45) ...further details