World War II
Facts
25 properties- Instance of
- world war, historical period[4]
- Follows
- World War I, interwar period[5][6]
- Location
- Russia, Europe, Africa, Pacific Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Scandinavia, Indian Ocean, South Asia, North Asia, Republic of China, Japan, Southern Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, Australia, North America, South America[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]
- Subclass of
- war
- Short name
- WWII, WW2, SWW, SGM
- Described by source
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, New World Encyclopedia, Pax Leksikon
- End time
- September 2, 1945[40]
- Has cause
- Treaty of Versailles, causes of World War II, Adolf Hitler, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, providentialism, revanchism, fascism, chauvinism
- Has effect
- British pet massacre, The Holocaust, atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bombing of Dresden, Allies of World War II, Nazi Germany, Empire of Japan, allied-occupied Germany, Austria, League of Nations, United Nations, United States, Soviet Union, Cold War, Japan, Soviet invasion of Poland, Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland
- Has immediate cause
- Secret Additional Protocol to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
- Has part(s)
- Pacific War, Eastern Front, Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, Normandy landings, Battle of the Bulge, Operation Flashpoint, Mediterranean and Middle East Theater of World War II, Middle East Theater of World War II, Battle of Aachen, Battle of the Scheldt, Operation Barbarossa, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Bloody Sunday, Big Week, Battle of Madagascar, Battle of France, Military occupation of the Slovak Republic, Third Battle of Kharkov, German occupation of Norway, Axis occupation of Greece, country in World War II, War in Yugoslavia during World War II, Soviet–Japanese War, 1939 Invasion of Poland[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]
- Hashtag
- world_war_ii, ww2, wwii
- History of topic
- timeline of World War II, diplomatic history of World War II
- Maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject World War II
- Number of deaths
- +73000000
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- Order of battle
- French army 1939-1940, British First Army order of battle, 4 May 1943, Order of battle for 7th Armoured Division, Order of battle of RAF Coastal Command, Supplementary Order of Battle, Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland order of battle, Imperial Japanese Navy order of battle 1941
- Participant
- Axis Powers, Allies of World War II, Nazi Germany, Australia, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Egypt, Mexico, United States, Republic of China[41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48]
- Permanent duplicated item
- Wikidata item, Wikidata item, Wikidata item
- Significant person
- Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Hirohito
- Start time
- September 1, 1939[39]
- Time period
- newest history, late modern period
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- Topic has template
- Template:World War II
- Library of Congress authority ID
- sh85148273
- GND ID
- 4079167-1
- OpenAlex ID
- C137355542
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Infobox collage for WWII.PNG ↗
- ABC News topic ID
- world-war-2
- Academic Encyclopedia of Czech History ID
- d7800249-0ee5-4268-bc2e-35a465ef9b31
- All the Tropes article ID
- World_War_II
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID
- 85111
- AniDB tag ID
- 2691
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID
- 9678
- Armeniapedia ID
- 9112
- Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
- scot/15036
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- Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID
- 2475
- Australian War Memorial ID
- CN15
- BBC News topic ID
- cz5jl9e9091t
- BBC Things ID
- d12073c6-e745-4a9d-844d-a249799148e0
- BNCF Thesaurus ID
- 16826
- BabelNet ID
- 00070139n
- Babelio subject ID
- 188
- Bashenc.online ID
- 83334
- Basisklassifikation
- 15.24
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 11996115g
- Booru tag
- world_war_ii
- CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID
- world-war-ii-2402
- CNA topic ID
- world-war-ii
- Comic Vine ID
- 4015-56025
- Courrier international topic ID
- seconde-guerre-mondiale
- Cultureel Woordenboek ID
- geschiedenis-1900-2000/tweede-wereldoorlog, nederland-1900-1945/tweede-wereldoorlog
- Dagens Nyheter topic ID
- andra-varldskriget
- Danbooru tag
- world_war_ii
- DeCS ID
- 38892
- Der Spiegel topic ID
- zweiter_weltkrieg, world_war_ii_en
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 940.53
- Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID
- CS14628
- DigitaltMuseum ID
- 029996972417
- Disney A to Z ID
- world-war-ii
- E-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia ID
- 1353
- EHLFL ID
- Zweiter_Weltkrieg
- ERR keyword ID
- 2.5M (185k–2.5M, n=3)
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID
- 132642
- Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID
- 1287
- Encyclopedia of Chicago ID
- 1384
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID
- w/world-war-ii
- Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia ID
- world-war-ii
- Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID
- 21884
- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID
- world_war_two
- Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID
- war.055
- Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID
- Druga_svitova_viyna_1939_1945
- Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID
- druha-svetova-valka
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- event/World-War-II
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- seconde-guerre-mondiale, guerre-mondiale-seconde
- Eska.pl topic ID
- tg-pGCw-tNkn-nBh2
- EuroVoc ID
- 7214
- Euronews topic ID
- world-war-ii
- FAST ID
- 1180924
- FOIH periods ID
- 1071
- FactGrid item ID
- Emilio Lunghi
- Fandom article ID
- military:World_War_II, 1930s:World_War_II, cs.historika:Druhá_světová_válka, historica:World_War_II
- Fandom wiki ID
- world-war-2, ru.2worldwar
- France 24 topic ID (French)
- seconde-guerre-mondiale
- Freebase ID
- /m/081pw
- FürthWiki article ID
- 477
- GitLab topic ID
- World+War+II
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- segona-guerra-mundial
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0031535
- Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
- 6627
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- andre_verdenskrig
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 2335018
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
- vtoraia-mirovaia-voina-1939-1945-480c9b
- HDS ID
- 008927
- Handbook of Texas ID
- npwnj
- Harper's tag
- world-war-ii, wwii, 1939-1945
- Hindustan Times topic ID
- world-war-ii
- IMDb keyword
- world-war-two, reference-to-world-war-two
- Interlingual Index ID
- i42245
- Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID
- S\E\SecondWorldWar
- Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID
- isut286
- Istrapedia ID
- 663
- KBpedia ID
- WorldWarII
- Klexikon article ID
- Zweiter_Weltkrieg
- Know Your Meme slug
- world-war-ii
- Krugosvet article (archived)
- istoriya/VTORAYA_MIROVAYA_VONA.html
- KulturNav-ID
- 18426a29-888f-4c93-a1cd-1bb92706cc96
- L'Humanité topic ID
- 2e-guerre-mondiale
- Le Monde diplomatique subject ID
- sujet/secondeguerremondiale
- Lex ID
- 2._Verdenskrig
- Lexicon istoric retic ID
- 1129
- Library of Congress Classification
- D731-D838
- Libris-URI
- 64jlkvmq4b77rq1
- MeSH concept ID
- M0459771
- MeSH descriptor ID
- D047789
- MeSH term ID
- T570451
- MeSH tree code
- I01.880.735.950.250.984, K01.400.504.968.901
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 137355542
- Mississippi Encyclopedia ID
- world-war-ii
- NDL Authority ID
- 00570524
- NE.se ID
- andra-världskriget
- NL CR AUT ID
- ph117270
- NRK topic ID
- 1.6045357
- National Library of Israel ID (old)
- 000771537
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007566075005171
- National Library of Korea ID
- KSH1998001372
- National Library of Poland MMS ID
- 9810648182205606
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
- XX526764
- New Georgia Encyclopedia ID
- history-archaeology/world-war-ii-in-georgia
- New York Post topic ID
- world-war-ii
- New York Times topic ID
- subject/world-war-ii-193945
- NicoNicoPedia ID
- 第二次世界大戦
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3997520
- Open Library subject ID
- world_war_1939-1945
- PACTOLS thesaurus ID
- pcrtIM599oIntc
- Postimees topic ID
- 722389
- Provenio UUID
- 656acf95-f583-4653-b9d0-693e9159fc3e
- Quora topic ID
- World-War-II, worldwarII
- RIA Novosti reference
- 1021937064.
- RationalWiki ID
- World_War_II
- Reddit topic ID
- world_war_ii
- Regensburg Classification
- NQ 2545 - NQ 2795
- Rijksmuseum Research Library authority ID
- 133235
- SELIBR ID
- 139432
- SVKKL authority ID
- h0001538-druha-svetova-valka-19391945
- ScienceDirect topic ID
- social-sciences/world-war-ii, social-sciences/second-world-war
- Semantic Scholar topic ID
- 9295
- Stack Exchange tag
- history.stackexchange.com
- Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe ID
- ereig-0074
- Stadtwiki Dresden article
- Zweiter_Weltkrieg
- Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID
- 5387
- Swedish Anbytarforum ID
- 11155.0
- TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
- ikinci-dunya-savasi
- TV Tropes ID
- UsefulNotes/WorldWarII
- Tennessee Encyclopedia ID
- world-war-ii
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID
- world_war_ii
- The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID
- WO025
- The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID
- 1103
- The Guardian topic ID
- world/secondworldwar
- Topic of Dictionary of Canadian biography identifier
- 1424
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Portal:World War II
- Topic's main category
- Category:World War II
- Treccani ID
- seconda-guerra-mondiale
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
- la-seconda-guerra-mondiale, seconda-guerra-mondiale
- U.S. National Archives Identifier
- 10644634
- UK Archival Thesaurus ID
- f8/mt805/7007/17079/7012
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID
- 13859
- UMLS CUI
- C0681710
- UNBIS Thesaurus ID
- 1007089
- Utah History Encyclopedia ID
- w/WWII
- Vienna History Wiki ID
- 44549
- Vikidia article ID
- en:Second_World_War, it:Seconda_guerra_mondiale, es:Segunda_Guerra_Mundial, eu:Bigarren_Mundu_Gerra, ca:Segona_Guerra_Mundial, fr:Seconde_Guerre_mondiale
- Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
- antrasis-pasaulinis-karas
- Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID
- vtoraya-mirovaya-voyna
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- pq479aes
- WikiKids ID
- Tweede_Wereldoorlog
- Wolfram Language entity code
- Entity["HistoricalEvent", "WorldWar2"], Entity["MilitaryConflict", "WorldWarII"]
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 01314587-n
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39Qhp4vBbhpRH9XvjbDFXtxhb
- YSO ID
- 8900
- Yle topic ID
- 18-295731
- Zhihu topic ID
- 19608803
- Ávvir topic ID
- nubbi-mailmmisoahti
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Location 23
← Field of work 19
Has effect 17
Has part(s) 16
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Has cause 8
Participant 6
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Follows 2
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World War II was a world war.
Body
Outcome and Impact
Things named for World War II include Justice Society: it[49], an animated film[50], directed by Jeff Wamester[51] and World War III[52], a film[53], directed by Houman Seyyedi[54].
Why It Matters
World War II has been cited as an influence by The Roaring Lion[55], a photograph[56], in Canada[57], founded in 1941[58] and Odysseas Elytis[59], a translator[60], 1911–1996[61], of Greece[62], awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature[63].
Entities named for it include Justice Society: it[49], an animated film[50], directed by Jeff Wamester[51] and World War III[52], a film[53], directed by Houman Seyyedi[54].
FAQs
Who did World War II influence?
World War II has been cited as an influence by The Roaring Lion[55] and Odysseas Elytis[59].
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evidence “1939 – Nazi Germany mounted a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe.” dailykos.com · read source
evidence “Set in the immediate aftermath of World War II, Godzilla Minus One chronicles the devastation that has rippled through Japan after being reduced to "zero," only to later be plunged into a "minus" by the emergence of a colossal creature.” movieweb.com · read source
evidence “Some years ago, the two also starred in World War II movies that both happen to be streaming on Paramount+ in the United States right now, before they’re removed from the platform soon.” collider.com · read source
evidence “3 approaches, the Philippines has good reason to remember that the end of World War II in Asia is not merely someone else’s history.” manilatimes.net · read source
evidence “Technically, some of the characters are motivated to get revenge for personal reasons, while others want to fight back against German forces in France during World War II for other reasons.” collider.com · read source
evidence “The BBC News web site has a good story today titled "Brothers together after 67 years" about two brothers, separated in Germany during World War II, who found each other after 67 years.” geneamusings.com · read source
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evidence “What a year it has been for fans of WWII-era storytelling, with films such as Pressure and Lucky Strikedoing well on PVOD, and the documentary series World War II with Tom Hanks continuing to draw audiences for two months.” collider.com · read source