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World War II or the Second World War was a global military conflict that involved most of the world’s nations including all of the great superpowers. During World War II there were two opposing military alliances called the Allies and the Axis. The Allies consisted of the British Empire, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United States. President Roosevelt referred to the Allies as the “Big Three� and once China joined they were known as the “Four Policemen�. The Axis was made up of the three major powers Germany, Italy, and Japan. At the zenith of their power they dominated large parts of Europe, Africa, East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean. The starting date of the war was said to be September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. There was a period that spanned from 1937 to 1941 were belligerents entered the war before or after this date. Some of the events are the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the start of Operation Barbarossa, Pearl Harbor and the British......

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