World war ii history for Android

World war ii history app for android description: World war ii (wwii or ww2) also known as the second world war was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 though related conflicts began earlier.
It involved the vast majority of the world 39 s nations including all of the great powers eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the allies and the axis.
It was the most widespread war in history and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries.
In a state of total war the major participants threw their entire economic industrial and scientific capabilities behind the war effort erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources.
Marked by mass deaths of civilians including the holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed) 1 2 and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres (in which approximately one million were killed and which included the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki) 3 it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities.
These made world war ii the deadliest conflict in human history.
4 the empire of japan aimed to dominate asia and the pacific and was already at war with the republic of china in 1937 5 but the world war is generally said to have begun on 1 september 1939 6 with the invasion of poland by germany and subsequent declarations of war on germany by france and the united kingdom.
From late 1939 to early 1941 in a series of campaigns and treaties germany conquered or controlled much of continental europe and formed the axis alliance with italy and japan.
Based on the molotov ribbentrop pact of august 1939 germany and the soviet union partitioned and annexed territories of their european neighbours poland finland romania and the baltic states.
The war continued primarily between the european axis powers and the united kingdom and the british commonwealth with campaigns including the north africa and east africa campaigns the aerial battle of britain th