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| | World War II |
 | | World War II World War II was the most extensive and costly armed 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 (see below). |
 | | The war was fought mainly between an alliance of the British Commonwealth, France, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Chinacollectively known as the Allies; and the Axis Powers, an alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan. |
 | | In the Paris Peace Treaty, the Soviet Union's enemies Hungary, Finland and Romania were required to pay war reparations of $300,000,000 each (in 1938 dollars) to the USSR and her satellites (both Hungary and Romania became satellites of the Soviet Union). |
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