World War II, Wars And Battles
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World War II, 1939–45, worldwide conflict involving every major power in the world. The two sides were generally known as the Allies and the Axis .
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• Alamein, El
Anzio
Atlantic Charter
atomic bomb
Axis
Battle of Britain
Battle of the Bulge
Omar Nelson Bradley
Cairo Conference
Casablanca Conference
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman, soldier, and author
cold war
Jean FranCois Darlan
Charles de Gaulle
Disarmament Conference
Dunkirk, town, France
Dwight David Eisenhower
European Economic Community
European Union
fascism
Finnish-Russian War
Francisco Franco
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Germany
Great Britain
Great Depression
Guadalcanal
Halsey, William Frederick, Jr.
Hiroshima
Adolf Hitler
Indian National Congress
Japan
Jews
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ivan Stepanovich Konev
League of Nations
lend-lease
Douglas MacArthur
Maginot Line
Marine Corps, United States
Montgomery, Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Monte Cassino
Moscow Conferences
Munich Pact
Benito Mussolini
Nagasaki
National Socialism
Chester William Nimitz
Normandy campaign
North Africa, campaigns in
Pearl Harbor
Henri Philippe PEtain
Potsdam Conference
Quebec Conference
Erwin Rommel
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Sino-Japanese War, Second
Spanish civil war
Tehran Conference
United Nations
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
United States
Vichy
Volgograd
war crimes
Maxime Weygand
World War I
Yalta Conference
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov
