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 * image            = Clockwise from top left: Chinese forces in the Battle of Changde

Australian 25-pounder guns during the First Battle of El Alamein

German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front in December 1943

US naval force in the Lingayen Gulf

Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender

Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad


 * date             = (23 years, 183 days)
 * place            = Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, South-East Asia, China, Japan, Middle East, Mediterranean, North Africa, Horn of Africa, Central Africa, Australia, briefly North and South America
 * 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
 * Beginning of the Nuclear Age
 * Dissolution of the League of Nations and creation of the United Nations
 * Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers and beginning of the Cold War (See Aftermath of World War II)
 * combatants_header = Participants
 * combatant1       = Allies
 * combatant2       = Axis
 * commander1       = Main Allied leaders: Joseph Stalin

🇺🇸 Franklin D. Roosevelt

🇬🇧 Winston Churchill

Chiang Kai-shek
 * commander2       = Main Axis leaders: Adolf Hitler

Emperor Hirohito

Benito Mussolini
 * casualties1      = Military dead:

Over 16,000,000

Civilian dead:

Over 45,000,000

Total dead:

Over 61,000,000

(1937–1945)

...further details
 * casualties2      = Military dead:

Over 8,000,000

Civilian dead:

Over 4,000,000

Total dead:

Over 12,000,000

(1937–1945)

...further details }}
 * campaignbox      =