| image =
Clockwise from top left:
- Chinese forces in the Battle of Changde
- Australian 25-pounder guns during the First Battle of El Alamein
- German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front in December 1943
- US naval force in the Lingayen Gulf
- Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender
- Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad
| date =
- 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945[a]
- (6 years and 1 day)
| place = Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, South-East Asia, China, Japan, Middle East, Mediterranean, North Africa, Horn of Africa, Central Africa, Australia, briefly North and South America
| result =
- Allied victory
- Fall of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan
- Allied military occupations of Germany, Japan, Austria and foundation of the Italian Republic in place of the Kingdom of Italy
- Beginning of the Nuclear Age
- Dissolution of the League of Nations and creation of the United Nations
- Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers and beginning of the Cold War (See Aftermath of World War II)
| combatants_header = Participants| combatant1 = Allies| combatant2 = Axis
| commander1 = Main Allied leaders:
| commander2 = Main Axis leaders:
| casualties1 =
- Military dead:
- Over 16,000,000
- Civilian dead:
- Over 45,000,000
- Total dead:
- Over 61,000,000
- (1937–1945)
- ...further details
| casualties2 =
- Military dead:
- Over 8,000,000
- Civilian dead:
- Over 4,000,000
- Total dead:
- Over 12,000,000
- (1937–1945)
- ...further details
| campaignbox =
}}
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