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 | | '''World War II''' was the most extensive and costly [[wararmed conflict]] in the [[history of the world]], involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing approximately 55.5 million lives. |
 | | The war was fought between two groups of powers: the [[alliance]] of the [[British Commonwealth]], [[United States]], [[Soviet Union]], [[China]], and the governments-in-exile of [[France]], [[ Poland]], and other occupied European countries, collectively known as the [[Allies]]; and the alliance of [[Germany]], [[Italy]], and [[Japan]] and their allies, collectively known as the [[Axis PowersAxis]]. |
 | | Indeed, the first combat operation in the European Theater of World War II was a German bombing attack against Poland, while the last combat operation in the Pacific Theater was a thousand-aircraft bombing attack on Japan, on [[14 August]] [[1945]]. |
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