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that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939/45. Aprincipal belligerents were the Axis powers Germany, Italy, and Japan and the Allies France,Great Britain,the United States, the Soviet Union,and, to a lesser extent, China.The war was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus,of the disputes left unsettled by World War I.The 40,000,000–50,000,000 deaths incurred in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war,in history.
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