European theatre of World War II
Theatre of military operations during World War II
European theatre of World War II
The European theatre of World War II, lasting from September 1939 to May 1945, was one of two main theatres of combat during World War II, the other being the Pacific War. The combat in Europe resulted in at least 39 million deaths, and a dramatic change in the balance of power on the continent. The Allied powers, including (for most of the war) the United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, and France, fought the Axis powers, including the fascist states of Nazi Germany and Italy, on multiple fronts: Western, Eastern, Scandinavian, and Mediterranean. Germany, meanwhile, enacted the Holocaust, a genocide of six million Jews, within its vast occupied territories across Europe. In 1938, German dictator Adolf Hitler had his country annex Austria and part of Czechoslovakia; this was motivated in part by the Nazi Party's racist ideology, which held that Germany needed to gain "living space" for its so-called "Aryan race" to survive. The country was supported by Italy, led by dictator Benito...
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