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  1. Women took on many different roles during World War II, including as combatants and workers on the home front. “More than six million women took wartime jobs in factories, three million volunteered with the Red Cross, and over 200,000 served in the military.”. [1] The war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale; the absolute ...

  2. Start and end dates [ edit] It is generally considered that, in Europe, World War II started on 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland and the United Kingdom and France's declaration of war on Germany two days later on 3 September 1939. Dates for the beginning of the Pacific War include the start of the Second Sino ...

  3. Das National World War II Museum, zunächst als National D-Day Museum bekannt, ist ein Museum in New Orleans (im Central Business District, Louisiana ). Sein Schwerpunkt ist die Schlacht in der Normandie (Operation Overlord) als Beitrag der US-Streitkräfte zum Sieg im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Es wurde vom US-Kongress als America's National World War ...

  4. Finland in World War II. Finnish soldiers raise the flag at the three-country cairn between Norway, Sweden, and Finland on 27 April 1945, which marked the end of World War II in Finland. Finland participated in the Second World War initially in a defensive war against the Soviet Union, followed by another, this time offensive, war against the ...

  5. Air warfare was a major component in all theaters of World War II and, together with anti-aircraft warfare, consumed a large fraction of the industrial output of the major powers. Germany and Japan depended on air forces that were closely integrated with land and naval forces; the Axis powers downplayed the advantage of fleets of strategic ...

  6. Das Museum war 1999 zunächst als Museum of World War II durch den Amerikaner Kenneth W. Rendell gegründet worden, der es anschließend zwanzig Jahre lang als Museumsdirektor leitete. Im Jahr 2016 wurde der Name durch „The International“ erweitert, um die globale Perspektive des Museums zu unterstreichen.

  7. The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allies of World War II, mainly from the British Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. The British Middle East Command with troops from the United Kingdom, South ...