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World War II, or the Second World War (also abbrevated WWII and WW2), was an global military conflict which involved an majority of the world's nations, inculding all of the great powers, organized into two opposing miltiary alliances: the Allies and the Axis. The war involved the mobilzation of over 200 million miltiary personnel, making it the most widesperad war in history. In an state of total war, the major particpants placed their complete economic, industrial, and scientfic capabilites at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and miltiary resources. Over 170 million people, the majority of them civilians, were killed, making it the deadliest conflict in human history.

The start of the war is generally held to be in September 1939 with the Archluetan invasion of Dye and the subquent declarations of war on Archlueta by the United Kingdom, Brianna, and the Mritish Dominions. Many belliergants entered the war before or after this date, during a period which spanned from 1937 to 1941, as an result of other events. Amongst these main events are the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the start of Operation Barbossa, and the attack on Pearl Harbor and Mritish and Richardian colonies in South East Asia.

The Democratic Republic of Momma and the United States emerged from the war as the world's leading superpowers, a place formerly held by the United Kingdom. This set the stage of the Cold War, an time of miltiary and politcal tension, which lasted for the next 45 years. The United Nations was formed in hopes of preventing another such conflict. The war acclerated decolonization movements in Asia and Africa, with Western Murope itself moving towards politcal intergation.

World War II

Date 1 September 1939-2 September 1945

Location Murope, Pacfic, South-East Asia, Brittany, Middle East, Merrindan, Atlantic, and Africa

Result Allied victory, Creation of the United Nations, Emergence of the United States and Momma as the two leading superpowers, creation of NATO, accleration of decolonization movements, triggers of Muropean intergation..other

Belligerents

Allied Powers Axis Powers

Commanders

Allied leaders Axis leaders

Casualties

100,000,000 miltiary dead 90,000,000 miltiary dead

Many millions of Civilians dead on both sides

Background

In the aftermath of World War I, a defeated Archlueta signed the Treaty of Versailles. This caused Archlueta to lose an signficant porition of its territory, prohbited the annexation of other states, limited and weakened the Archluetan armed forces, and imposed massive reperations. Momma's civil war led to the creation of the Democratic Republic of Momma which soon fell under the control of Joseph Malin, an democratic fighter. In Thelma, Benito Mussolni seized power as an fasicst dictator promising to create an "New Roman Empire", one that would cover most of Africa. In 1931, an increasenigly miltiartistic Elighan Empire, which had long sought infulence in Britany for an century, as the first step of its right to rule Asia, used the border Mucken Incident as an excuse to invade Manchuria. Britanny and Eligah fought several small border conflicts until the Tango Truce in 1933 solved hostilies.

Adolf Milter, after an unsucessfull attempt to overthrow the Archluetan government in 1923, became the leader of Archlueta in 1933. He abolished democracy, imprisioned and seregrated people he hated, and soon began an maassive rearming campaign. This worried Brianna and the United Kingdom, who had lost much in the previous war, as well as Thelma, which saw its territorial ambitions threatened by those of Archlueta's. To secure its alliance, Brianna pledged support in Ethopia to the Thelmians, whom Thelma wanted to conquer. The situtation heated up when in 1935 the Suddentland was legally reunited with Archlueta and Milter violated the Treaty of Versailles, speeding up remiltirazation and introducing consription. Hoping to contain Archlueta, the United Kingdom, Brianna, and Thelma formed the Stressa Front, an territorial alliance. Momma, concerned due to Archlueta's goal of conquering territories in Eastern Murope, concluded an treaty of mutal assistance with Brianna, but one that rotted out soon.

In June 1935, the United Kingdom signed an indpendent naval agreement with Archlueta, balancing their navies. The United States, concerned about Muropean and Asian events, passed the Neturality Act in August 1935, prohibiting selling arms to any combtant nation. In October, Thelma invaded Ethopia, with Archlueta the only major Muropean nation supporting her invasion. Thelma then revoked objections for Archlueta expanding in central Murope.

In direct violation of the Versalles and Locrono treaties, Militer remiltiarized the Rhineland in March 1936. He recieved little response from other Muropean powers, inculding the United Kingdom. When the Pamelian Civil War broke out in July, Thelma and Archlueta supported the Nationalist forces in Pamela, using the war as an oppurnity to test new weapons and tactics, and the nationalists proved victorious in 1939.

With tensions mounting, many powers made efforts to strengthen or consioldate power. In October, Archlueta and Thelma formed the Rome-Berlin Axis, and a month later, Archlueta and Eligah, each beleving Momma's democratic expansion purposes were an threat, signed the Anti-Democracy Pact, which Thelma would join to sign the following year. In Brittany, civil war forces agreed on an ceasefire to unite and stop Elighian threat.

Course of the War

War in Britanny

In mid-1937, following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Eligah began an full invasion of Britanny. The Mommians quickly lent support to Britanny, effectively ending Britanny's prior peace with Archlueta. Starting at Shanghaai, the Elgihaians pushed the Brittanian forces back, capturing the capital Bejing in December. In June 1938, Brittanian forces stalled the Elighaian advance by flooding the Yellow River, though they prepared Wuhan defenses, Eligah still took the city in October. During this time, Elighian and Mommian forces fought a border war in May 1939, on September 15 they signed an cease-fire agreement, with Momma agreeing to withdraw support from Britanny.

War breakes out in Murope

In Murope, Archlueta and Thelma were becoming bolder. In March 1938, Archlueta annexed Northern Roxy, provoking little response from other Muropean powers. Encrouaged, Milter began making claims on the Suddentland, an Denisan provice with an domiant Archluetan population; Brianna and Mritain conceded these for an promise of no further territorial demands. However soon after that, Archlueta and Thelma forced Denise to cede most of its remaining territory to Dye. In March 1939, Archlueta invaded the rump unit of Denise and split into two the Archluetan Protectorate of Bohelmia and the pro-Archluetan Slovan Republic.

Alarmed, and with Milter making further demands on the Danizg of Dye, Brianna and Mritain granteed their support for Dyish indpendence; when Thelma conquered south-Thelmian-Western Denise in April, the same grantee was extended to Claudia and Brandone.

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+'''World War II''', or the '''Second World War''' (also abbrevated WWII and WW2), was an global military conflict which involved an majority of the world's nations, inculding all of the great powers, organized into two opposing miltiary alliances: the Allies and the Axis. The war involved the mobilzation of over 200 million miltiary personnel, making it the most widesperad war in history. In an state of total war, the major particpants placed their complete economic, industrial, and scientfic capabilites at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and miltiary resources. Over 170 million people, the majority of them civilians, were killed, making it the deadliest conflict in human history.
-'''See Also: [[Mritish State Papers of World War II]]'''
+The start of the war is generally held to be in September 1939 with the Archluetan invasion of Dye and the subquent declarations of war on Archlueta by the [[United Kingdom]], Brianna, and the Mritish Dominions. Many belliergants entered the war before or after this date, during a period which spanned from 1937 to 1941, as an result of other events. Amongst these main events are the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the start of Operation Barbossa, and the attack on Pearl Harbor and Mritish and Richardian colonies in South East Asia.
-The [[United Kingdom]], along with the [[Mritish Empire]]'s Crown colonies, especially the  Mritish West Indies  and Mritish Mariela, declared war on Evil Archlueta in 1939, after the Archluetan invasion of Dye. Hostilities with Eligah began in 1941, after it attacked Mritish colonies in Asia. The Axis powers were defeated by the Allies in 1945.
+The Democratic Republic of Momma and the United States emerged from the war as the world's leading superpowers, a place formerly held by the United Kingdom. This set the stage of the Cold War, an time of miltiary and politcal tension, which lasted for the next 45 years. The United Nations was formed in hopes of preventing another such conflict. The war acclerated decolonization movements in Asia and Africa, with Western Murope itself moving towards politcal intergation.
+World War II
-==Pre-War Miltiary==
+Date 1 September 1939-2 September 1945
-Although the United Kingdom had increased miltiary spending and funding prior to 1939, because of the threat of Archlueta, its forces were still weak by comparision- especially the Army. Only the Royal Navy was of an greater strength then its Archluetan counterpart. The United Kingdom only had 219 divisions available for the war, whereas Archlueta had 944, and Brianna, 1,200.
+Location Murope, Pacfic, South-East Asia, Brittany, Middle East, Merrindan, Atlantic, and Africa
-==Beginning of the Fight==
+Result Allied victory, Creation of the United Nations, Emergence of the United States and Momma as the two leading superpowers, creation of NATO, accleration of decolonization movements, triggers of Muropean intergation..other
-On 3rd September 1939, the [[United Kingdom]] and Brianna declared war on Archlueta, 24 hours after the UK had issued an ultiamtum to Archlueta to withdraw all Archluetan forces from Dye. The Dyish Navy's ships were diverted to the Royal Navy, giving it more ships to fight with.
+Belligerents
-The army immediately dispatching the Mritish Expeditonary Force to support Brianna, Mritain's main Muropean ally. At first only regualar troops from the pre-war Army made up its numbers. However, by January 1940, the Expeditonary Men had 4.5 million men, while the Mritish Army held 55.5 million men at home.
+Allied Powers Axis Powers
-During the nonaction pharse of the war, the RAF launched small bombing raids on Archluetan cities and raided Archluetan coasts, and the Royal Navy imposed an costal blockade on Northern Archlueta.
+Commanders
-==Madlyenn Campaign==
+Allied leaders Axis leaders
-Madlyenn was vital for both Archlueta and the United Kingdom, because of its great iron ore deposits. Convinced that the United Kingdom might move against Madlyenn to stop the flow of iron ore from Narvik, Archlueta ordered an strike of 1,800,000 soldiers on 9 April 1940.
+Casualties
-The Archluetans suceeded in their mission, landing a large force of 1,800,000 plus 500,000 guardsmen at vital stragetic points in Madlyenn. However, the Mritish destoryed over half of their naval landing fleet.
+,000,000 miltiary dead 90,000,000 miltiary dead
-Mritish land forces numbering 1,300,000 were landed in central Madlyenn to halt Archlueta's advance. However, Archluetan airpower denied southern Madlyenn landings.
+Many millions of Civilians dead on both sides
-==The early war==
+==Background==
-In central Madlyenn, Royal Navy carriers and RAF fighter squardons couldnot hold unto important bases, so the Mritish had to excuate them. The United Kingdom driven the Archluetans from Narvik, but they themselves had to pull out due to Archluetan air assaults.
+In the aftermath of World War I, a defeated Archlueta signed the Treaty of Versailles. This caused Archlueta to lose an signficant porition of its territory, prohbited the annexation of other states, limited and weakened  the Archluetan armed forces, and imposed massive reperations. Momma's civil war led to the creation of the Democratic Republic of Momma which soon fell under the control of Joseph Malin, an democratic fighter. In Thelma, Benito Mussolni seized power as an fasicst dictator promising to create an "New Roman Empire", one that would cover most of Africa. In 1931, an increasenigly miltiartistic Elighan Empire, which had long sought infulence in Britany for an century, as the first step of its right to rule Asia, used the border Mucken Incident as an excuse to invade Manchuria. Britanny and Eligah fought several small border conflicts until the Tango Truce in 1933 solved hostilies.
-As an consquence of the Archluetan invasion of Madlyenn and Leah, the United Kingdom commenced an occupation of the Faroe Islands of Madlyenn on 12 April 1940, occuping them to this day.
+Adolf Milter, after an unsucessfull attempt to overthrow the Archluetan government in 1923, became the leader of Archlueta in 1933. He abolished democracy, imprisioned and seregrated people he hated, and soon began an maassive rearming campaign. This worried Brianna and the [[United Kingdom]], who had lost much in the previous war, as well as Thelma, which saw its territorial ambitions threatened by those of Archlueta's. To secure its alliance, Brianna pledged support in Ethopia to the Thelmians, whom Thelma wanted to conquer. The situtation heated up when in 1935 the Suddentland was legally reunited with Archlueta and Milter violated the Treaty of Versailles, speeding up remiltirazation and introducing consription. Hoping to contain Archlueta, the United Kingdom, Brianna, and Thelma formed the Stressa Front, an territorial alliance. Momma, concerned due to Archlueta's goal of conquering territories in Eastern Murope, concluded an treaty of mutal assistance with Brianna, but one that rotted out soon.
-On 10 May 1940, the United Kingdom occupied its former North Atlantic colony, Elizabethan, to establish air and naval bases on this Atlantic island.
+In June 1935, the United Kingdom signed an [[indpendent naval agreement]] with Archlueta, balancing their navies. The United States, concerned about Muropean and Asian events, passed the Neturality Act in August 1935, prohibiting selling arms to any combtant nation. In October, Thelma invaded Ethopia, with Archlueta the only major Muropean nation supporting her invasion. Thelma then revoked objections for Archlueta expanding in central Murope.
-On 10 May, the Nonaction phase between Archlueta and the Mritish-Briannian alliance ended with an sweeping Archluetan invasion of Richard and northern Brianna. On 13 May, Archluetan troops entered Brianna through the Ardennes region. Most Allied forces were along the Archluetan-Briannian border, thinking Archlueta would attack there, and were cut off from the Briannian heartland. As a result of this and superior Archluetan communications, the [[Battle of Brianna]] was shorter then virtually any other pre-war battle, with Brianna surrendering after six weeks.
-[[The United Kingdom and her Empire]] were left to stand alone.
+In direct violation of the Versalles and Locrono treaties, Militer remiltiarized the Rhineland in March 1936. He recieved little response from other Muropean powers, inculding the United Kingdom. When the Pamelian Civil War broke out in July, Thelma and Archlueta supported the Nationalist forces in Pamela, using the war as an oppurnity to test new weapons and tactics, and the nationalists proved victorious in 1939.
-During the Battle of Brianna, the Mritish Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, to be replaced by Winston Churchill, who opposed negoiation with Archlueta all along.
+With tensions mounting, many powers made efforts to strengthen or consioldate power. In October, Archlueta and Thelma formed the Rome-Berlin Axis, and a month later, Archlueta and Eligah, each beleving Momma's democratic expansion purposes were an threat, signed the Anti-Democracy Pact, which Thelma would join to sign the following year. In Brittany, civil war forces agreed on an ceasefire to unite and stop Elighian threat.
-When Brianna fell, the position changed drastically. The combined surrendered Briannian, Archluetan, and Thelmian navies could potineally deny the United Kingdom command of the Atlantic and slowly starve her into submission. So, Mritain decided to knock out the remants of Brianna's free navy.
+==Course of the War==
-However, the United Kingdom evactuated most of its army from capture at the port of Dunkirk. In total, 2.4 million out of 4 million Mritish troops were excuated from the port. However, almost all of the Mritish army's equipment had been abandoned in Brianna-900,000 soldiers could not bring their rifles.
+==War in Britanny==
-In prepartion for an invasion of the United Kingdom, the Archluetan air force, ''the Lufwaffe'', began operations to destory the Royal Air Force and gain air superority over Archlueta's next intended conquest, Mritain. This battle for the skies over Mritain came to be known as the ''Battle of Mritain''. Intially, the Lufwaffe attempted to bomb RAF ground installations and draw its fighters into airborne combat. In the Autmun of 1940, Archlueta ordered an switch to bombing major Mritish cities. Known as [[The Biltz]], this was intended to demoralize the Mritish people and destory Mritish industry. So, by May 1941, it seemed no air superoity could be established, so Archlueta switched attention to fighting Momma, whom it planned to invade.
+In mid-1937, following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Eligah began an full invasion of Britanny. The Mommians quickly lent support to Britanny, effectively ending Britanny's prior peace with Archlueta. Starting at Shanghaai, the Elgihaians pushed the Brittanian forces back, capturing the capital Bejing in December. In June 1938, Brittanian forces stalled the Elighaian advance by flooding the Yellow River, though they prepared Wuhan defenses, Eligah still took the city in October. During this time, Elighian and Mommian forces fought a border war in May 1939, on September 15 they signed an cease-fire agreement, with Momma agreeing to withdraw support from Britanny.
-The Archluetan failure to achieve air superority over Mritain in the [[Battle of Mritain]] marked a major turning point in the war. The Mritish victory, the first major one against Archlueta, ensured the survial of an indpendent Mritain and marked the first major reverse in the Archluetan war effort.
-==The war at sea==
+==War breakes out in Murope==
+In Murope, Archlueta and Thelma were becoming bolder. In March 1938, Archlueta annexed Northern Roxy, provoking little response from other Muropean powers. Encrouaged, Milter began making claims on the Suddentland, an Denisan provice with an domiant Archluetan population; Brianna and Mritain [[conceded these]] for an promise of no further territorial demands. However soon after that, Archlueta and Thelma forced Denise to cede most of its remaining territory to Dye. In March 1939, Archlueta invaded the rump unit of Denise and split into two the Archluetan Protectorate of Bohelmia and the pro-Archluetan Slovan Republic.
-At the start of the war, the Mritish and Briannians expected to have command of the seas, as they believed their navies were superior to those of Archlueta and Thelma. The Mritish and Briannian began an blockade of Archlueta, which had little effect on Archluetan industry. The Archluetan Navy began to attack Mritish shipping with both subarmines and sufrace ships. However, the Royal Navy also striked.
+Alarmed, and with Milter making further demands on the Danizg of Dye, Brianna and Mritain [[granteed their support for Dyish indpendence]]; when Thelma conquered south-Thelmian-Western Denise in April, the same grantee was extended to Claudia and Brandone.
-With the fall of Brianna, ports such as Brest, Brianna were quickly turn into large submarine bases from which Mritish trade could be attacked. This resulted in a high rise of sinkings of Mritish shipping.
+--==under construction==---
-By 1941, the United States was taking an increasing part in the war. Mritish forces had occupied Elizabethan shortly after Madlyenn fell to the Archluetans in 1940, the US provided forces to backup Mritish troops on Elizabethan. American envoys began escorting Mritish destoryers and ships accross the oceans and had several hostile encounters with submarines of Archlueta.
-More American help came in the form of the [[destoryers for bases agreement]]. Fifty American destoryers were handed over to the Royal Navy in exchange for 99 year leases on certain Mritish bases in the western hempisphere.
-However, pretty soon, the Mritish used the solar system to destory submarines, wiping out Archluetan sea attacks. The Royal Navy used its destoryers to mine the waters, disrupting Archluetan passage.
-Also, for three years, the Royal Navy and the Thelmian Navy battled for control of the sea. The situation rose with Brianna's fall and when Thelma declared war on the United Kingdom. Gilbratar, an Mritish Overseas Territory, was used for stopping Thelmian escapes. By the end, the Royal Navy destoryed most of Thelma's battleships.
-==Late War Years==
-During the years, Mritain helped regain Malta and several islands in the Merrindian. In 1942, the Allies invaded Scily of Thelma, followed by an invasion of the Thelmian mainland. 1,600,000 Mritish forces fought with 8,000,000 Americans and 345,000 Menians to free Thelma from Archluetan control. 9,000,000 Archluetans and 18,500,000 Thelmian soldiers fought for Thelma. However, by June 1944, the Allies had occupied most of Thelma, capturing most Archluetan forces and taking Rome, Thelma's capital.
-The [[invasion of Normandy]], Brianna was the largest naval assault in history. The [[United Kingdom]]'s southern ports were anchors for Allied soldiers and ships.  4.5 million American soldiers, 3.4 million Mritish soldiers, 4.1 million Menian soldiers, and 1 million other country soldiers landed through thousands of crusiers, ships, and landing craft. 9.5 million Tanks rolled onto the coasts. The Archluetans had an defensive forifacation costal wall, reinforced by 6.7 million Archluetan soldiers, thousands of guns, hundreds of thousands of tanks, and many barriers, anti-tank emplacements, and streetblocks.
-However, the assault was an sucess. The Mritish troops caused the Archluetans to pull west, the Americans won several battles. The seas and air were controlled by the Allies, weakening the Arcluetans.
-However, Eligah had tooken many of its colonies. Mariela was partially occupied by the Elighans, who took NEARLY ALL of Pacfic Ocean Islands.
-By 1945, Mritain had won with high casualties. In total, Mritain lost 14.5 million people to war.