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World War II resulted in the death of an estimated 55 million people worldwide. This war is the biggest and most destructive conflict in history. Germany started World War II by invading Poland on September 1, 1939. Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany. German troops invaded western Europe in the spring of 1940. With German support, the Soviet Union occupied the Baltic states in June 1940. Italy, a member of the Axis (a country allied to Germany), entered the war on 10 June 1940 From 10 July to 31 October 1940, the Nazis engaged in air wars over British skies and were ultimately defeated. This war was called the Battle of Britain.nnAfter securing the Balkans by invading Yugoslavia and Greece on April 6, 1941, German troops and their allies invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in direct violation of the German-Soviet Pact. In June and July 1941, Germany also occupied the Baltic states. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin later became the main wartime Allied leader against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies. During the summer and fall of 1941, German troops increasingly pushed their way into the Soviet Union. On December 6, 1941, the Soviet forces launched a violent counterattack. The next day, on December 7, 1941, Japan (an Axis bloc force) bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing the United States to enter into war and ally with Great Britain and the Soviet Union.nnIn May 1942, the British Royal Air Force attacked the German city of Cologne with thousands of bombers, and for the first time brought the German population to a taste of the war. Over the next three years, Allied air forces systematically bombed industrial plants and cities throughout the Reich, leaving German cities in ruins.nnOn the eastern front, during the summer of 1942, Germany and the Axis bloc again attacked the Soviet Union, with the aim of capturing Stalingrad on the Volga River, as well as the city of Baku and the Caucasian oil fields. The German offensive came to a halt on both battlefields in late summer 1942. In November, Soviet forces launched a counterattack on Stalingrad and on February 2, 1943, German Sixth Army surrendered to Soviet troops. German troops launched another attack on Kursk in July 1943, which was the largest tank battle in history, but Soviet forces subdued the attack and maintained a military dominance that was maintained throughout the war.nnIn July 1943, Allied forces landed in Sicily and in September docked on the coast of mainland Italy. After the Grand Council of the Italian Fascist Party relinquished the post of prime minister of Italy Benito Mussolini (an ally of Hitler), the Italian military took over and entered into negotiations to surrender to Anglo-American forces on September 8. German troops stationed in Italy seized control of half of the northern peninsula, and continued the resistance. Mussolini, who had been captured by the Italian military, was rescued by the German SS commandos in September and established a neo-Fascist puppet regime (under German supervision) in northern Italy. German troops continued to control northern Italy until they surrendered on May 2, 1945.nnContinue on your own the end

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