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1 giorno fa · World War II began in Europe on 1 September 1939 with the German invasion of Poland and the United Kingdom and France's declaration of war on Germany two days later on 3 September 1939.
2 giorni fa · World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939–45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China).
1 giorno fa · Almost every country in the world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relative few nations remained neutral to the end. The Second World War pitted two alliances against each other, the Axis powers and the Allied powers.
1 giorno fa · The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers. Its principal members by the end of 1941 were the "Big Four" – the United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, and China .
4 giorni fa · World War II. Key People: Nagano Osami. Tōjō Hideki. Yamamoto Isoroku. Husband Edward Kimmel. Walter Campbell Short. (Show more) Recent News. May 17, 2024, 3:03 AM ET (USA Today) USS Oklahoma Frank Hryniewicz lost in Pearl Harbor buried at Arlington. May 11, 2024, 1:41 AM ET (Washington Post)
5 giorni fa · Joseph Stalin. premier of Soviet Union. Also known as: Ioseb Dzhugashvili, Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin. Written by. Ronald Francis Hingley. Former Lecturer in Russian, University of Oxford. Author of Chekhov: A Biographical and Critical Study; Russian Writers and Society; Nihilists; and others; editor and translator of The Oxford...
4 giorni fa · A World War II survivor recalls the London Blitz. Queen Elizabeth II and Winston Churchill's unlikely friendship. The Poles had cracked Enigma in 1931, but when war broke out and the codes changed every 24 hours, it was evident that more effort had to be brought to bear on it.
