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    World War II began in 1939 with Germany's invasion of Poland and soon involved many countries around the world. By 1942, Germany and Italy were defeated in North Africa and at Stalingrad by the Soviet Union. Key setbacks in 1943 cost the Axis powers their initiative and forced them into strategic retreat on all fronts. The war in Europe concluded in 1945 with the Allies invading Germany and the Soviet Union capturing Berlin, leading to Germany's unconditional surrender. Japan refused to surrender after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US in August 1945, but soon capitulated after the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria. The war drastically changed the global political and social order, establishing the UN and setting the stage for the

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    World War II began in 1939 with Germany's invasion of Poland and soon involved many countries around the world. By 1942, Germany and Italy were defeated in North Africa and at Stalingrad by the Soviet Union. Key setbacks in 1943 cost the Axis powers their initiative and forced them into strategic retreat on all fronts. The war in Europe concluded in 1945 with the Allies invading Germany and the Soviet Union capturing Berlin, leading to Germany's unconditional surrender. Japan refused to surrender after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US in August 1945, but soon capitulated after the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria. The war drastically changed the global political and social order, establishing the UN and setting the stage for the

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    World War II began in 1939 with Germany's invasion of Poland and soon involved many countries around the world. By 1942, Germany and Italy were defeated in North Africa and at Stalingrad by the Soviet Union. Key setbacks in 1943 cost the Axis powers their initiative and forced them into strategic retreat on all fronts. The war in Europe concluded in 1945 with the Allies invading Germany and the Soviet Union capturing Berlin, leading to Germany's unconditional surrender. Japan refused to surrender after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US in August 1945, but soon capitulated after the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria. The war drastically changed the global political and social order, establishing the UN and setting the stage for the

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    The causes of the war are debated; contributing factors included the rise of

    fascism in Europe, the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, Soviet–
    Japanese border conflicts, and tensions in the aftermath of World War I. World War
    II is generally considered to have begun on 1 September 1939, when Nazi Germany,
    under Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland. The United Kingdom and France declared war on
    Germany on 3 September. Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany
    and the Soviet Union had partitioned Poland and marked out their "spheres of
    influence" across Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania. From late 1939
    to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or
    controlled much of continental Europe in a military alliance called the Axis with
    Italy, Japan, and other countries. Following the onset of campaigns in North and
    East Africa, and the fall of France in mid-1940, the war continued primarily
    between the European Axis powers and the British Empire, with the war in the
    Balkans, the aerial Battle of Britain, the Blitz of the UK, and the Battle of the
    Atlantic. In June 1941, Germany led the European Axis powers in an invasion of the
    Soviet Union, opening the Eastern Front, the largest land theatre of war in
    history.

    Japan aimed to dominate Asia and the Pacific, and by 1937 was at war with the
    Republic of China. In December 1941, Japan attacked American and British
    territories with near-simultaneous offensives against Southeast Asia and the
    Central Pacific, including an attack on Pearl Harbor which resulted in the United
    States and the United Kingdom declaring war against Japan. The European Axis powers
    declared war on the US in solidarity. Japan soon conquered much of the western
    Pacific, but its advances were halted in 1942 after losing the critical Battle of
    Midway; Germany and Italy were defeated in North Africa and at Stalingrad in the
    Soviet Union. Key setbacks in 1943—including German defeats on the Eastern Front,
    the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italian mainland, and Allied offensives in the
    Pacific—cost the Axis powers their initiative and forced them into strategic
    retreat on all fronts. In 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France,
    while the Soviet Union regained its territorial losses and pushed Germany and its
    allies back. During 1944–1945, Japan suffered reversals in mainland Asia, while the
    Allies crippled the Japanese Navy and captured key western Pacific islands. The war
    in Europe concluded with the liberation of German-occupied territories; the
    invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, culminating in the
    Fall of Berlin to Soviet troops; Hitler's suicide; and the German unconditional
    surrender on 8 May 1945.

    Following the refusal of Japan to surrender on the terms of the Potsdam


    Declaration, the US dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima on 6 August and
    Nagasaki on 9 August. Faced with imminent invasion of the Japanese archipelago, the
    possibility of more atomic bombings, and the Soviet Union's declared entry into the
    war against Japan on the eve of invading Manchuria, Japan announced on 10 August
    its intention to surrender, signing a surrender document on 2 September 1945.

    World War II changed the political alignment and social structure of the world, and
    set the foundation for the international order for the rest of the 20th century and
    into the 21st century. The United Nations was established to foster international
    cooperation and prevent conflicts, with the victorious great powers—China, France,
    the Soviet Union, the UK, and the US—becoming the permanent members of its Security
    Council. The Soviet Union and the US emerged as rival superpowers, setting the
    stage for the Cold War. In the wake of European devastation, the influence of its
    great powers waned, triggering the decolonisation of Africa and Asia. Most
    countries whose industrie

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