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World war II
 World War II or the Second World War, often
abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a global war that
lasted from 1939 to 1945.
 It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—
including all of the great powers—forming two opposing
military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
 In a total war directly involving more than 100 million
personnel from more than 30 countries, the major
participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and
scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the
distinction between civilian and military resources.
 Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the
strategic bombing of population centres and the only two
uses of nuclear weapons in war.
 World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human
history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, a majority
being civilians. Tens of millions of people died due to
genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation,
massacres, and disease.
 In the wake of the Axis defeat, Germany and Japan were
occupied, and war crimes tribunals were conducted
against German and Japanese leaders.
 The exact causes of World War II are debated, but
contributing factors included the Second Italo-Ethiopian
War, the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese
War, the Soviet–Japanese border conflicts and rising
European tensions since 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
subsequently 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, and formed the Axis alliance with
Italy and Japan (along with other countries later on).
 Following the onset of campaigns in North Africa 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 war in the Balkans, the aerial
Battle of Britain, the Blitz of the UK, and the Battle of the
Atlantic.
 On 22 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.
2 Russo-Ukrainian War
 The Russo-Ukrainian War[19][d] is an ongoing war
between Russia (together with pro-Russian
separatist forces) and Ukraine.
 It began in February 2014 following the Ukrainian
Revolution of Dignity, and initially focused on the
status of Crimea and the Donbas, internationally
recognised as part of Ukraine.
 The first eight years of the conflict included the
Russian annexation of Crimea (2014) and the war
in Donbas (2014–present) between Ukraine and
Russian-backed separatists, as well as naval
incidents, cyberwarfare, and political tensions.
 Following a Russian military build-up on the
Russia–Ukraine border from late 2021, the conflict
expanded significantly when Russia launched a
full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
 In August 2014, unmarked Russian military
vehicles crossed the border[20] into the Donetsk
republic.
 An undeclared war began between Ukrainian
forces on one side, and separatists intermingled
with Russian troops on the other, although Russia
attempted to hide its involvement.
 The war settled into a static conflict, with
repeated failed attempts at a ceasefire.
 In 2015, the Minsk II agreements were signed by
Russia and Ukraine, but a number of disputes
prevented them being fully implemented.
 By 2019, 7% of Ukraine was classified by the
Ukrainian government as temporarily occupied
territories.
3 Arms used world war II
4 Arms which are being used in Russo-Ukrainian War
5 causes of ww2
6 What caused Russia to invade ukraine
Bibliography / Webliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

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