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In this global military conflict, the largest in history, two sides faced each other: the Allies (France, Poland, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China and the United States), and the Axis Powers (Germany, the Empire of Japan and the Kingdom of Italy), and beginning with Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939
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Almost total devastation of Europe. ...
Beginning of a bipolar world. ...
Division of Germany. ...
Emergence of new technologies. ...
Decolonization. ...
The death of between 55 and 70 million people. -
Fought between 1939 and 1945, World War II was a global war between the Allies (Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States) and the Axis powers (Germany, Japan and Italy).
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This war not only caused the death of 3% of the world's population, for six years it destroyed thousands of homes and families, forced many people to leave their homes, many children to witness the murder of their parents, caused poverty, hunger, discrimination, persecution, fear
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World War II permanently changed the balance of power in Europe and Asia. In the case of Eastern Europe and the Far East, profound territorial changes were made. The end of the war marked the beginning of negotiations for the signing of a series of new territories.
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It was the largest and most destructive conflict in all of history. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, thus starting World War II. In response, Britain and France declared war on Germany. German forces invaded Western Europe in the spring of 1940.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Japan, having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, formally surrenders, ending World War II.
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In the early hours of May 7, 1945, at the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Reims (France), the Chief of Staff of the High Command of the German Armed Forces, General Alfred Jodl, signed the act of unconditional military capitulation to the entire German army against the Allies.
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The side that was the winner in World War II was that of the Allies, being the countries that were fighting against Hitler's Nazism. Among the main countries that were part of the Allies we can talk about the United Kingdom, France, the United States, the USSR, New Zealand, Australia or the British Raj
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September 2, 1945