| World War II |
Clockwise from top left: Chinese forces in the Battle of Wanjialing, Australian 25-pounder guns during the First Battle of El Alamein, German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front winter 1943–1944, US naval force in the Lingayen Gulf, Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad |
|
|
| Belligerents |
|
Allies
 Soviet Union (1941–45)
 United States (1941–45)
 United Kingdom
 China
 France[a]
 Poland
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 South Africa
 British India
 Yugoslavia (1941–45)
 Greece (1940–45)
 Denmark (1940–45)
 Norway (1940–45)
 Netherlands (1940–45)
 Belgium (1940–45)
 Czechoslovakia
 Brazil (1942–45)
 Mexico (1942–45)
Client and puppet states
 Philippines (1941–45)
 Mongolia (1941–45)
|
Axis
 Germany
 Japan
 Italy (1940–43)
 Hungary (1940–45)
 Romania (1941–44)
 Bulgaria (1941–44)
Co-belligerents
 Finland (1941–44)
 Thailand (1942–45)
 Iraq (1941)
Client and puppet states
 Manchukuo
 Italian Social Republic (1943–45)
 Croatia (1941–45)
 Slovakia
|
| Commanders and leaders |
| Allied leaders
Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek
|
Axis leaders
Adolf Hitler
Hirohito
Benito Mussolini
|
| Casualties and losses |
Military dead:
Over 16,000,000
Civilian dead:
Over 45,000,000
Total dead:
Over 61,000,000 (1937–45)
...further details |
Military dead:
Over 8,000,000
Civilian dead:
Over 4,000,000
Total dead:
Over 12,000,000 (1937–45)
...further details |
|
|
|
