Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Progression of World War Two

Progression of World War Two

 * Reason:Crisp informative and shows the progression of the war very well
 * Proposed caption:World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a worldwide military conflict; the amalgamation of two separate conflicts, one beginning in Asia in 1937 as the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the other beginning in Europe in 1939 with the invasion of Poland. It is regarded as the historical successor to World War I.

This global conflict split a majority of the world's nations into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. Spanning much of the globe, World War II resulted in the deaths of over 70 million people, making it the deadliest conflict in human history.

World War II was the most widespread war in history, and countries involved mobilized more than 100 million military personnel. Total war erased the distinction between civil and military resources and saw the complete activation of a nation's economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities for the purposes of the war effort; nearly two-thirds of those killed in the war were civilians. For example, nearly 11 million of the civilian casualties were victims of the Holocaust, which was conducted by Nazi Germany, largely in Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union.

The conflict ended in an Allied victory. As a result, the United States and Soviet Union emerged as the world's two leading superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War for the next 45 years. The United Nations was founded in the hopes of preventing another such conflict, and self determination gave rise to decolonization/independence movements in Asia and Africa, while Europe itself began traveling the road leading to integration
 * Articles this image appears in:Allies of World War II
 * Creator:Astrokey44 i think


 * Support as nominator Hadseys (talk • contribs) 15:41, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment This image was nominated twice before: Featured picture candidates/Ww2 allied axis (May 2006, not promoted) and Featured picture candidates/WW2 Allied Axis (June 2006, not promoted). – sgeureka t•c 15:53, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose; as a creator of similar animated timelines, I think the need for clear information outweighs the language-agnosticism of this map. That is to say, I'd like a short explanation of each jump on the timeline, as it's a large map and it can be difficult to notice every change. This has been nominated unchanged for the last year and a half; it's time someone improved on it. --Golbez 04:58, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose In addition to Golbez, I think it needs rather more frames to really give a true view of the course of the war - for instance, the island-hopping of the pacific campaign doesn't appear Adam Cuerden talk 17:41, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment, I really like the idea but tend to agree with the two opposes. A concise explanation / more detail might be useful. Also, the caption is too vague since presumably this will be in an article that already states the premise of WWII. gren グレン 14:00, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

MER-C 02:38, 19 November 2007 (UTC)