Unit 12:: World War II
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Abstract

World War II, the biggest military conflict in the history of humanity, began on September 1, 1939, with Germany's invasion of Poland and ended on September 2, 1945, with the surrender of Japan, the last of the three major Axis powers to do so. More than sixty countries were formally involved in the worldwide battle, and it is estimated that no fewer than sixty million people were killed in the course of the war, with the majority of victims being noncombatants.

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