World War II

World War II was the most devastating war in human history and, to date, the only nuclear war. It was the culmination of a number of factors including left-over resentment from the Treaty of Versailles, unresolved geopolitical disputes, ideological tensions between socialism and capitalism, as well as (in some cases) the unchecked growth of ultranationalism. Unlike the conflict which preceded it, World War II fully lived up to its name; fighting occurred in the plains of Europe 🌍, in the deserts of West Asia 🌴, in the jungles of Asia 🌏, in the beaches of Oceania 🌅, under every sea and over every sky of Earth.

In German articles this conflict is known as the Second Weltkrieg and in Soviet articles as the Great Patriotic War.

Numerous regional alliances participated in the fighting, but they eventually coalesced into two sides:

     UNITED NATIONS - ALLIED POWERS     

• Kaiserliche Eisenpakt
  (Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, West Poland, Yurislanzia)
• Allied Nations of North America (ANNA)
  (United States of America, Canada, Mexico)
• Red Sea Alliance (RSA)
  (United Arab Kingdoms, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Imperial African Army)
• Other Allied Nations
  (Republic of China, Oceanyka)

      EURASIAN COMINTERN - AXIS POWERS      

• Moscow Pact (MTO)
  (Soviet Union, France, Turkey, East Poland, Finland, Iran, Terranihil, Konratopia, Communist China)
• South European Pact (SEUROP)
  (Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, Danubia)
• Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere (GEACPS)
  (Japan, Manchuria, Korea, Thailand)

While some historians argue that it began earlier (particularly at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War, most agree that it began on September 1st, 1939, with the French Invasion of Germany.

~ Western European Theatre ~

Battle of Alsace | Low Countries Campaign

Battle of the Rhine

Guderian's Counteroffensive

North Sea Commercial Treaty

Battle of Britain | THE REPUBLIC OF GREAT BRITAIN JOINS THE ALLIED POWERS

~ Eastern European Theatre ~

Third Battle of Tannenberg | First Battle of Poland | First Battle of Galicia | Bohemian Campaign | Battle of the Eastern Alps

Yellow Winter

       ~ Pacific & East Asian Theatre ~

Second Sino-Japanese War

Operation Minamikaze

Chinese Communist Revolution

       ~ Clandestine Operations Theatre ~

Project PERUN

       ~ General Articles ~

Second Treaty of Versailles - END OF THE WAR -