World War II

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20th-century conflict global war

World War II was a global conflict from 1939 to 1945 involving most of the world’s nations, marked by unprecedented destruction, the Holocaust, and the use of atomic weapons, and resulting in a major reshaping of the international order.

Aliases (21)

Second World War ×676
World War II era ×84
Great Patriotic War ×46
World War II period ×8
The Second World War ×2
World War II in Europe ×2
第二次世界大戦 ×2
II wojna światowa ×1
Second World War (as a youth auxiliary) ×1
Second World War (through antecedent regiments) ×1
Second World War era ×1
Segunda Guerra Mundial ×1
The Second World War (Winston Churchill) ×1
World War II (as conscientious objector medic) ×1
World War II (historical narrative) ×1
World War II (relatively minor damage) ×1
World War II (through 11th Marine Regiment) ×1
World War II campaigns ×1
World War II in Marvel continuity ×1
World War II political leadership ×1
WorldWarII ×1

Statements (92)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	20th-century conflict → global war →
endDate	1945-09-02 →
hasPart	Allied invasion of Sicily → Battle of Anzio → Battle of Berlin → Battle of Britain → Battle of Coral Sea → Battle of Dunkirk → Battle of El Alamein → Battle of France → Battle of Guadalcanal → Battle of Hong Kong → Battle of Iwo Jima → Battle of Kursk → Battle of Leyte Gulf → Battle of Midway → Battle of Monte Cassino → Battle of Narvik → Battle of Okinawa → Battle of Saipan → Battle of Singapore → Battle of Stalingrad → Battle of Tarawa → Battle of the Atlantic → Battle of the Bulge → Battle of the Philippines (1944–1945) → Blitz → D-Day → Eastern Front → European theatre of World War II → Evacuation of Dunkirk → Holocaust → Invasion of Poland → Italian campaign → Manhattan Project → North African campaign → Nuremberg trials → Operation Avalanche → Operation Bagration → Operation Barbarossa → Operation Berlin → Operation Berlin (Atlantic) → Operation Blue → Operation Cartwheel → Operation Chastise → Operation Citadel → Operation Cobra → Operation Compass → Operation Coronet → Operation Cottage → Operation Crossbow → Operation Crusader → Operation Detachment → Operation Downfall → Operation Dragoon → Operation Gomorrah → Operation Goodwood → Operation Hailstone → Operation Husky → Operation Iceberg → Operation Ichi-Go → Operation Lüttich → Operation Market Garden → Operation Meetinghouse → Operation Neptune → Operation Nordwind → Operation Olympic → Operation Overlord → Operation Plunder → Operation Sea Lion → Operation Shingle → Operation Spring Awakening → Operation Ten-Go → Operation Tidal Wave → Operation Torch → Operation Typhoon → Operation Uranus → Operation Varsity → Operation Watchtower → Operation Weser Exercise → Operation Weserübung → Pacific War → Phoney War → Potsdam Conference → Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) → Tehran Conference → Warsaw Uprising → Western Front → Winter War → Yalta Conference →
startDate	1939-09-01 →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
100th Infantry Battalion → 100th Rifle Division ("Second World War") → 100th Rifle Division ("Great Patriotic War") → 107th Rifle Division ("Second World War") → 107th Rifle Division ("Great Patriotic War") → 10th Army → 10th Army (Italy) ("Second World War") → 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment → 11th Armoured Division ("Second World War") → 11th Marine Regiment → 12th Army (Red Army) ("Second World War") → 12th Army Group → 14th Air Force → 15th Army Group ("Second World War") → 15th Panzer Division → 163rd Rifle Division → 16th Army → 16th Army (Wehrmacht) → 18th Army (Wehrmacht) → 1st Airlanding Brigade ("Second World War") → 1st Baltic Front ("Second World War") → 1st Battalion, 1st Marines → 1st Battalion, 7th Marines → 1st Belorussian Front ("Second World War") → 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division → 1st Canadian Division ("Second World War") → 1st Combat Engineer Battalion → 1st Division (Australia) ("Second World War") → 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis → 1st Infantry Division ("Second World War") → 1st Marine Division → 1st Marine Division (United States) → 1st Parachute Brigade ("Second World War") → 1st Polish Army → 1st Ranger Battalion → 1st South African Division ("Second World War") → 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division → 1st Tank Battalion → 1st Ukrainian Front ("Second World War") → 21st Army (Red Army) ("Second World War") → 21st Army Group ("Second World War") → 21st Panzer Division ("Second World War") → 21st Panzer Division → 23rd Fighter Group → 26th Army (Red Army) → 27th Armoured Brigade ("Second World War") → 27th Infantry Division (United States) → 28th Infantry Division → 2nd Armoured Division (France) ("Second World War") → 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines → 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines → 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines → 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines → 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment ("Second World War") → 2nd Belorussian Front → 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade ("Second World War") → 2nd Carrier Division → 2nd Division (Australia) ("Second World War") → 2nd Light Division ("Second World War") → 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing → 2nd Marine Division → 2nd Marine Tank Battalion → 2nd New Zealand Division ("Second World War") → 2nd Panzer Army → 2nd Parachute Brigade ("Second World War") → 2nd Polish Army → 322nd Rifle Division ("Second World War") → 37th Army (Red Army) ("Second World War") → 38th Army (Red Army) ("Second World War") → 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines → 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines → 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines → 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment ("Second World War") → 3rd Belorussian Front ("Second World War") → 3rd British Infantry Division ("Second World War") → 3rd Canadian Infantry Division ("Second World War") → 3rd Infantry Division → 3rd Infantry Division ("Second World War") → 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing → 3rd Marine Division → 3rd Panzer Army → 40th Army (Red Army) → 40th Army (Red Army) ("Great Patriotic War") → 40th Army Corps → 42nd Infantry Division → 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division ("Second World War") → 442nd Regimental Combat Team → 4th Army → 4th Indian Division ("Second World War") → 4th Indian Division → 4th Infantry Division (United States) → 4th Marine Division → 4th Marine Division → 509th Composite Group → 51st (Highland) Division → 57th Army (Red Army) → 5th Army (Red Army) → 5th Carrier Division → 5th Marine Division → 6th Armored Division → 6th Army → 6th Army (Red Army) ("Second World War") → 6th Battalion, Green Howards ("Second World War") → 6th Marines → 6th Panzer Army → 716th Infantry Division → 77th Indian Infantry Brigade ("Second World War") → 7th Armoured Division ("Second World War") → 7th Battalion, Green Howards ("Second World War") → 7th Infantry Division (United States) → 7th Marine Regiment → 7th Panzer Division → 82nd Infantry Division → 8th Army → 8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry ("Second World War") → 8th Guards Army → 8th Marines → 90th Infantry Division (United States) → 90th Light Africa Division → 9th Army → 9th Army (Red Army) ("Second World War") → 9th Army (Wehrmacht) → 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry ("Second World War") → ABDA Command → AK → ARMIR ("Second World War") → Abe Nobuyuki → Admiralty Islands campaign → Adolf Borchers → Adolf Galland → Advance to the Elbe → Aichi D3A → Aichi D3A → Air Medal → Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Fighter Command ("Second World War") → Air Transport Command → Air raid on Bari → Akio Morita → Alan Brooke → Alan S. Boyd → Albanian resistance → Albert C. Wedemeyer → Albert Kesselring → Aleksandr Vasilevsky → Aleksandr Vasilevsky → Aleutian Islands campaign → Alexander Löhr → Alexander Patch → Alexander Solzhenitsyn → Alexander Vandegrift → Alexandros Papagos → Alexei Kosygin → Alfred Gause → Allied ABDA Command → Allied Combined Operations Headquarters ("Second World War") → Allied Expeditionary Air Force ("Second World War") → Allied Expeditionary Force in North Africa → Allied High Command → Allied Land Forces ("Second World War") → Allied Naval Commander, Expeditionary Force ("Second World War") → Allied Naval Commander, Expeditionary Force → Allied Naval Expeditionary Force ("Second World War") → Allied Naval Expeditionary Force → Allied Naval Forces → Allied air forces → Allied bombing of Germany → Allied bombing of Hungary → Allied forces → Allied invasion of Sicily → Allied merchant shipping → Allied military engineers → Allied operations in Western Europe → Allied reconquest of British Somaliland ("Second World War") → Allied strategic bombers → Allied strategic bombing of Japan → Allies of World War II → Alphonse Joseph Georges → Alphonse Juin → Altmark → Altmark Incident → Amedeo, Duke of Aosta → American Campaign Medal → American Defense Service Medal → American Volunteer Group → Anami Korechika → Andrew Cunningham → Andrey Yeremenko → André Malraux → Anthony McAuliffe → Anton Lopatin → Antoni Chruściel → Arado Ar 234 → Archibald V. Arnold → Area B-5 (Catoctin Mountain Park) → Arethusa class (1930s) → Ariete Armoured Division ("Second World War") → Armata Italiana in Russia → Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan → Armed Forces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia → Army Air Forces Training Command → Army Group A → Army Group B → Army Group Centre → Army Group Don ("Second World War") → Army Group North → Army Group South → Army Group Vistula → Arthur C. Clarke → Arthur Harris → Arthur Percival → Arthur Tedder → Arthur Tedder → Arthur Tedder → Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal → Atlantic Fleet → Attack on Taranto → Audie Murphy → Australian 9th Division ("Second World War") → Australian Army ("Second World War") → Auxiliary Territorial Service ("Second World War") → Auxiliary Territorial Service ("Second World War") → Axis → Axis powers → Azad Hind Government → BMW 801 → Baedeker Blitz → Balkan Campaign → Baltic Fleet (Soviet Union) → Baltic offensive (1944) → Barney Ross → Barry Goldwater → Basil Embry ("Second World War") → Bastogne Barracks ("Second World War") → Bataan Death March → Batalla del Río de la Plata ("Segunda Guerra Mundial") → Battle for Caen → Battle for Rome → Battle of Aachen → Battle of Ambon → Battle of Anzio → Battle of Balikpapan (1942) → Battle of Bardia ("Second World War") → Battle of Bataan → Battle of Berlin → Battle of Berlin (air campaign) → Battle of Calabria → Battle of Cape Gloucester → Battle of Cape Matapan → Battle of Cape Spada → Battle of Cape Spartivento → Battle of Corregidor (1942) → Battle of Corregidor (1945) → Battle of Damascus (1941) → Battle of Dombås → Battle of Drøbak Sound → Battle of Gabon → Battle of Hamburg → Battle of Hong Kong → Battle of Imphal → Battle of Kasserine Pass → Battle of Kiev (1941) → Battle of Lake Ladoga in World War II → Battle of Lenino → Battle of Leyte Gulf → Battle of Malaya → Battle of Malta → Battle of Manila (1945) → Battle of Medenine ("Second World War") → Battle of Mindanao (1945) → Battle of Narvik → Battle of Nibeiwa ("Second World War") → Battle of Okinawa → Battle of Palembang → Battle of Salerno → Battle of Singapore → Battle of Surigao Strait → Battle of Toungoo → Battle of Tulagi → Battle of Uman → Battle of Vinjesvingen → Battle of the Admin Box → Battle of the Badung Strait → Battle of the Bzura → Battle of the Don Bend → Battle of the Heligoland Bight (1940 minelaying operations area) → Battle of the Java Sea → Battle of the Makassar Strait → Battle of the Philippine Sea → Battle of the Philippines (1944–1945) → Battle of the Pockets →	conflict
12th Army (Red Army) → 21st Army (Red Army) ("Great Patriotic War") → 322nd Rifle Division → 37th Army (Red Army) ("Great Patriotic War") → 57th Army (Red Army) ("Great Patriotic War") → 5th Army (Red Army) ("Great Patriotic War") → 9th Army (Red Army) → ARP (Air Raid Precautions) ("Second World War") → Ausland-SD → Auxiliary Territorial Service ("Second World War") → Baltic Fleet (Soviet Union) → British Chiefs of Staff Committee → British India Command ("Second World War") → British Security Coordination → Bryansk Front ("Great Patriotic War") → Commander-in-Chief West ("Second World War") → Dornier Flugzeugwerke → EAM → Einsatzgruppen → First Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy → Flag Officer, Dover ("Second World War") → French Moroccan Goumiers → Friedrich Janssen → German 17th Army → German General Staff → Government Code and Cypher School → Heinrich Gley → Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps ("Second World War") → Imperial Japanese Naval Academy → Inland-SD ("Second World War") → Italian Blackshirt divisions → JG 26 ("Second World War") → Japanese Kwantung Army → Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces → John Ferrell ("World War II era") → John Vachon → Katherine Tupper Brown → Kido Butai → Ministry of War of Japan → Nakajima Aircraft Company → Operational Groups ("Second World War") → Otto Hofmann → Reich Office for Spatial Planning → Rikusentai → Royal Canadian Engineers ("Second World War") → Royal Hungarian Air Force → Royal Romanian Air Force → SD → SS → SS Planning Office → SS security zone at Obersalzberg → SS-Verfügungstruppe → Straits Settlements Volunteer Force → Telecommunications Research Establishment → United States Coast Artillery Corps → Viet Minh → Women's Land Army →	activeDuring
Chartwell, Kent, England ("Second World War") → Hall of Memory ("Second World War") → Intrepid Park → Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Historic District → Map Room → Marshal of Finland → Memorial Day → National Monument (Amsterdam) → Roll of Honour ("Second World War") → Rosie the Riveter → Royal Observer Corps crest ("Second World War") → Statue of Jan Smuts, Parliament Square ("Second World War") → Theme from "Guadalcanal March" (revised) → Theme from "Victory at Sea" (revised) → Trinity test device → Victory Day parades ("Great Patriotic War") → Victory Day parades → White Cliffs of Dover ("Second World War") →	associatedWith
B Reactor → Fifth Party System in United States politics → Glenn L. Martin Company plant, Omaha, Nebraska → Gulag system → Karl Heinrich Pfirsch → Katherine Tupper Brown → Lucie Maria Rommel → Red Skull ("World War II in Marvel continuity") → Reich Steel Commissioner ("Second World War") → Reichsführer-SS →	associatedWithEvent
District of Radom → German-occupied Europe → Greek government-in-exile → Lend-Lease program → Ministry of Aircraft Production ("Second World War") → Protectorate ministries → Reich Protector → State Council of Czechoslovakia → Supreme War Council of Japan →	appliesToPeriod
Alsace-Lorraine → At Sea → Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy → Juno Beach Centre ("Second World War") → Marshal of Poland → Secretary of State for War ("Second World War") → Square of Sorrow ("Second World War") → The G.I.’s General →	associatedWithConflict
Air Medal → Distinguished Flying Cross → Iron Cross 2nd Class → Medal for Merit → Medal for Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 ("Great Patriotic War") → Military Cross ("Second World War") → Order of Alexander Nevsky ("Great Patriotic War") → Order of Glory ("Great Patriotic War") →	campaign
First Fleet → Heer → New Mexico class → Second Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) → Service for Poland’s Victory → United States Cavalry → Yugoslav Partisans →	activeInConflict
Achille Starace ("World War II era") → European resistance movements → Karl Ritter → National Labour Organisation → National Liberation Front (EAM) → Socialist Party of Greece → Väinö Tanner ("World War II era") →	activeInPeriod
Dambana ng Kagitingan → De Oversteek → Eccles War Memorial → Eternal Flame (Australian War Memorial) ("Second World War") → McAuliffe Square → Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad → World War II Illinois Veterans Memorial →	commemorates
Australian War Memorial ("Second World War") → National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific → National War Memorial ("Second World War") → Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial → USS Utah Memorial → World War II Memorial →	commemoratesConflict
Home Army → Imperial Japanese Army Academy → Polish POWs → RAF Second Tactical Air Force ("Second World War") →	activeDuringConflict
Columbia Radiation Laboratory → KG 53 ("Second World War") → Lehrgeschwader 1 ("Second World War") → Training Wing 1 →	activeDuringPeriod
Fifth Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) → Franz Stangl → Hungarian 2nd Army → Junkers →	activePeriod
7th Battalion, Green Howards → BB-31 → French Fourragere → Omaha Beach →	associatedConflict
EAM (National Liberation Front) → Royal Australian Army Medical Corps ("Second World War") → SS units →	activeIn
Distinguished Service Order ("Second World War") → Military Order of William → Virtuti Militari →	awardedDuring
Nuremberg trials → War Criminals Prison No. 1 →	after
Julian March → Île d’Yeu prison →	afterWar
Allied Control Council → IMT Charter ("Second World War") →	appliesToConflict
BB-37 → Hospital Point, Pearl Harbor →	associatedWithWar
Distinguished Service Cross → Military William Order →	awardedInConflict
Pentagon → RAF Fairford ("Second World War") →	builtDuring
Military Medal ("Second World War") → Silver Star Medal →	campaigns
Tuxedo Park →	aboutEvent
Small Constitution of 1947 →	adoptedAfter
Borneo territories of the British Empire ("Second World War") →	affectedBy
Western Belarus →	annexationDuring
Eupen-Malmedy region →	annexedDuring
Meiji Constitution →	appliedDuringConflict
British Military Administration in Eritrea ("Second World War") →	appliesDuring
Seventh War Loan Drive posters →	appliesToEvent
Office of Price Administration →	appliesToTimePeriod
Oswald Mosley →	arrestedDuring
Berghof →	associatedEvent
Ilkenau →	associatedWithHistoricalPeriod
Theme from "The Valiant Years" ("Second World War") →	associatedWithPeriod
Truman family →	associatedWithWarTimeLeadership
Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems →	basedOnWorkCompletedDuring
3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) →	battleHonors
Life Guards ("Second World War") →	battleHonoursInclude
Leros →	battleOccurredIn
Anglo-American intelligence cooperation →	beganDuringConflict
Plymouth, England ("Second World War") →	bombedDuring
Eastern Poland →	borderChangedSignificantlyDuring
Radio Oranje →	broadcastDuring
New York Shipbuilding Corporation →	builtForConflict
Bronze Star Medal →	campaignOrService
Distinguished Service Order ("Second World War") →	campaignUsage
Distinguished Conduct Medal ("Second World War") →	campaignUse
Cannes Film Festival →	cancellationReason
1948 Summer Olympics →	cancellationReasonOf1944Games
Petsamo, Finland →	cessionAfter
Lucky Strike →	changedPackagingDuring
Alsace →	changedSovereignty
Finnish offensive of 1941 →	chronologicalContext
Lebanon Conference (1944) →	chronologyWithin
University of Königsberg →	closedDueTo
Buchenwald Trial →	concernedEvent
Medal of Freedom (1945) →	conferralContext
Vierville-sur-Mer →	WorldWar