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world war ii

第二次世界大戦 第2次世界大戦 WW2 WWII world_war_2

The Second World War (abbreviated "WWII" or "WW2") was a major worldwide war that began when Nazi Germany attacked Poland on September 1st of 1939 and ended after Japan surrendered on August 15th of 1945. It is considered a result of the outcome of World War I.

The belligerents formed two major factions, the Allied Powers (or "Allies") and the Axis Powers (or "Axis").

World War II is considered the deadliest military conflict in human history. Over 60 million people died as a result of the fighting and/or resulting resource shortages, as well as deliberate mass killings throughout the war, and hundreds of millions were displaced or left destitute in the aftermath. WW2 can also be considered the deathblow to the old European empires which had dominated history up to that point; the war left them financially, militarily, and culturally even more exhausted than they had been after WW1 and saw the rise of two new super-powers with a rather anti-colonial bent to them: the USSR and the USA, thus kickstarting the Cold War.

Technologically, WW2 saw the first usage of the many trends that still dominate warfare to this day: the first modern missiles and rockets were used during WW2, aircraft carriers replaced battleships as the dominant surface warfare vessels, unmanned radio controlled vehicles saw limited use during the war, and StG 44, the world's first assault rifle, entered service during the later half of the war. The most important and influential technology used, however, is the first (and only) usage of a nuclear weapon in the history of warfare: when the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by the atomic bombs dropped by the USA.

This tag can be applied if the image is related to World War 2, such as featuring technology (tanks, aircraft, warships or weapons) of the era, uniforms & troops, or battle scenes.

Participants

The Allies
  • United Kingdom
  • France
  • Soviet Union
  • United States
  • Republic of China
  • Poland
  • Norway
  • Netherlands
  • Belgium
  • Luxembourg
  • Ethiopia
  • Greece
  • Czechoslovakia (annexed prior the war begun, later fought as partisans and foreign brigade)
  • Yugoslavia
  • Philippines (until 1942 and after 1944)
  • India
  • Canada
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • South Africa
  • Rhodesia
  • Mongolia
  • Brazil
  • Mexico
The Axis
  • Nazi Germany
  • Fascist Italy
  • Empire of Japan
  • Hungary
  • Romania (until 1944)
  • Bulgaria
  • Finland
  • Slovakia
  • Croatia
  • Philippines (from 1942 - 1944)
  • Thailand

Tagged Battles

  • Pacific Theatre
    • Attack on Pearl Harbor
    • Battle of the Coral Sea
    • Battle of Midway
    • Guadalcanal Campaign
    • Battle of the Philippine Sea
    • Battle of Iwo Jima
      • Raising The Flag On Iwo Jima
    • Operation Ten-Gou
    • Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • North Africa Front
    • Battle of Beda Fomm
    • First Battle of El Alamein
    • Second Battle of El Alamein
  • European Theatre/Western Front
    • Battle of France
      • Dunkirk Evacuation
    • Battle of Britain
    • Invasion of Normandy
      • D-Day
        • Omaha Beach
      • Battle of Caen
    • Operation Market Garden
      • Battle of Arnhem
        • John Frost Bridge
      • Battle of Nijmegen
    • Battle of the Bulge
      • Siege of Bastogne
    • Battle of Remagen
  • Eastern Front
    • Siege of Odessa
    • Siege of Sevastopol
    • Battle of the Kerch Peninsula
    • Winter Offensive
    • Battle of Stalingrad
    • Battle of the Dnieper
    • Prague Offensive
    • Battle of Berlin
      • Raising A Flag Over The Reichstag

See also

  • Invasion Stripes
  • World War I
  • Tag group:History
  • Second Sino-Japanese War
  • Spanish Civil War
  • United States
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt
    • Harry S. Truman
    • United States Army
      • General Douglas MacArthur
      • General George S Patton
      • United States Army Air Corps
    • United States Navy
      • United States Marine Corps
  • United Kingdom
    • Winston Churchill
      • Marshall Bernard Montgomery
    • Special Air Service
    • Royal Air Force
    • Royal Navy
  • Soviet Union
    • Joseph Stalin
    • Soviet Army
  • Nazi Germany
    • Adolf Hitler
    • Waffen-SS
      • Heinrich Luitpold Himmler
      • Josef Mengele
    • Wehrmacht
    • Luftwaffe
      • Hermann Wilhelm Goering
    • Kriegsmarine
    • Afrika Korps
      • Erwin Rommel
  • Empire of Japan
    • Emperor Hirohito
    • Hideki Tojo
    • Imperial Japanese Navy
      • Kamikaze Pilots
      • Ohka (weapon)
    • Imperial Japanese Army
      • General Kuribayashi Tadamichi
      • Lieutenant Colonel Baron Nishi Takeichi
    • Horikoshi Jirou
      • Mitsubishi A6M Zero
        • Sakai Saburou
  • Fascist Italy
    • Benito Mussolini
    • Regia Aeronautica
    • Regia Marina

World War II in Popular Culture

  • Wolfenstein (series)
  • Kerberos Saga
  • Kaze Tachinu
  • The Cockpit
  • Letters From Iwo Jima
  • Kelly's Heroes
  • Das Boot
  • Dunkirk (movie)
  • Band of Brothers
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Fury (movie)
  • Enemy At The Gates

External Links

  • Wikipedia: World War II

The following tags are aliased to this tag: wwii (learn more).

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