World War II

Personnel| Allies* Franklin D Roosevelt (U.S.A.)
* Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union/U.S.S.R.)
* Winston Churchill (U.K., British Empire)
* Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China)
* Charles de Gaulle (French Republic and Free France)
* Heinrich Himmler (Nazi Germany)
* Erwin Rommel (Nazi Germany)
* Karl Doenitz (Nazi Germany)
* Hirohito (Japanese Empire)
* PM Hideki Tojo (Japanese Empire)
* Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita (Japanese Empire)
* Yoshijirō Umezu (Japanese Empire)
* Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Japanese Empire)
* Benito Mussolini (Fascist Italy)
* Victor Emmanuel III (Fascist Italy)
* Giovanni Messe (Fascist Italy)

Strength| Allied Powers* British Armed Forces
	+ British Royal Army
	+ Royal Navy
		- Royal Marines
	+ Royal Air Force

* Canadian Armed Forces
	+ Canadian Army
	+ Royal Canadian Navy
	+ Royal Canadian Air Force

* Australian Defence Force
	+ Australian Army
	+ Royal Australian Navy
	+ Royal Australian Air Force

* British Indian Armed Forces
	+ British Indian Army
	+ British Royal Indian Navy

* Soviet Armed Forces (joined June 1941 after Operation Barbarrosa)
	+ Soviet Red Army
	+ Soviet Navy
		- Soviet Naval Infantry
	+ Soviet Air Force

* US Armed Forces (joined December 7 1941, after the Pearl Harbor attacks)
	+ United States Army and Army Air Forces
	+ US Navy
	+ US Marine Corps

* French Armed Forces and later the Free French Armed Forces, (joined June 1940)
	+ French Army
	+ French Navy
	+ French Air Force

* Republic of China Armed Forces (joined December 1941)
	+ Republic of China Army
	+ Republic of China Navy
	+ Republic of China Air Force

* Other Allied Countries
	+ South Africa
	+ Southern Rhodesia
	+ Yugoslavia
	+ New Zealand
	+ Italy (from September 1943
	+ Greece

* Combatant with Governments in Exile
	+ Belgium
	+ Denmark
	+ Poland
	+ Netherlands
	+ Norway
	+ Luxembourg
	+ Philippines
	+ Free Thai Movement
	+ German Army (Heer)
	+ German Navy (Kriegsmarine)
	+ German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
* German Schutzstaffel (SS)
	+ Waffen-SS
	+ Allgemeine SS
		- Gestapo

* Italian Armed Forces (defeated in 1943)
	+ Italian Army
	+ Italian Navy
	+ Italian Air Force

* Armed Forces of the Japanese Empire
	+ Imperial Japanese Army
		- IJA Air Force
		- Kimpeitai (Military Police and Intelligence)
	+ Imperial Japanese Navy
		- IJN Marine Corps
		- IJN Naval Air Service
			* Kamikaze squadrons

* Other Axis-alligned Nations and Militaries
	+ Vichy France
	+ Croatia
	+ French Indochina
	+ Second Philippine Republic
	+ Romania (until August 1944)
	+ Slovak Republic (1939–1945)
	+ Kingdom of Thailand
	+ Wang Jingwei regime
	+ Manchukuo

Result| Allied Victory* Fall of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan

* Allied military occupations of Germany, Japan, Austria and foundation of the Italian Republic in place of the Kingdom of Italy

* Countries of Asia gained their Independece after centuries of Colonization and after being occupied by Imperial Japan.

* Beginning of the Nuclear Age.

* Creation of the United Nations in October 1945.

* Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers and beginning of the Terran Cold War in 1947.

* Formation of NATO, April 1949.

* The Beginning of Holocaust Denial by the Neo-Nazis and Japanese War Crime denial by the Japanese ultranationalists.

**World War II** or also known as the **Second World War** and **WWII** (also known in the Andromeda Galaxy as the **Second Terran Civil War**), was a global conflict on Earth that lasted from 1939 to 1945. This involved the vast majority of the Earth's countries —including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. In a total war directly involving more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries.

The conflict started on September 1st, 1939 when Nazi Germany, under dictator Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland, thus causing the United Kingdom and France to subsequently declare war on Germany two days later. The conflict was originally a European matter, but then after the Empire of Japan attacked the U.S. naval base Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States entered the war. Through out the early 1940s the Allies and civilian resistance engaged in battles against around the world against the Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy.

Then on June 6th, 1944, the tide turned against the Axis powers when the Allies invaded Nazi occupied Normandy, France which was a success and a severe blow to the Nazi Regime. Eventually, the war in Europe concluded with the liberation of German-occupied territories, and the invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, culminating in the fall of Berlin to Soviet troops. Refusing to surrender to the allies, Hitler committed suicide, and when the news of his death spread, the Germany unconditionally surrendered on May 8th, 1945.

Despite victory in Europe however, the war wasn't over as Japan refused to back down. As a result the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan on August 6th and 9th, 1945, both killing tens of thousands of people. In the aftermath of the devastation, Japan surrendered, thus ending the war on September 2nd.

Unfortunately during the war, Adolf Hitler committed one of the worst crimes against humanity known as the Holocaust, where the Nazis imprisoned, enslaved, or massacred Jewish people in Europe. The motives of the holocaust was likely anti-semitism, eugenics, German nationalism, and Hitler accusing the Jewish people for Germany's defeat during World War I, while the Japanese wanted to conquer the whole Asian continent and the Pacific whereas they claiming that they were Liberating Asia from the Imperialism when in reality the Empire of Japan wanted to Invade, Conquer and Colonize the countries of Asia, while it's Soldiers claiming they were fighting for Honor and for their beloved Emperor, but in reality they committed worst atrocities on both Civilian and Military personnel, even the Right-wingers were still in denial of what they did during the War on Pacific. The Second World War remains the deadliest conflict ever to occur on Earth.