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title: "Top 7 Facts About World War 2"  
description: "World War II was an expansive war fought between the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan) and the Allied power (Great Britain, Russia and the U.S.)"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-14  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1561/top-7-facts-about-world-war-2  
category: "history"  
tags: ["World war", "world war 2", "history", "WW2", "facts", "world war facts"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Top 7 Facts About World War 2

![Top 7 Facts About World War 2](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8961007c-e9a1-4ba3-bd13-36bab10ba0a3/images/83f57a31-288b-4b76-a69a-3eb607a59a6a.jpeg) ![Top 7 Facts About World War 2](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8961007c-e9a1-4ba3-bd13-36bab10ba0a3/images/d179e117-7887-444f-bb03-8bec81b594ec.jpeg) World War II was not only fought in Europe. In the North African Military Campaigns between 1940 and 1943 ![Top 7 Facts About World War 2](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8961007c-e9a1-4ba3-bd13-36bab10ba0a3/images/9a76e6dc-df37-446f-954b-1947fa5a8447.jpeg) In total WWII claimed the lives of approximately 60 million people. ![Top 7 Facts About World War 2](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8961007c-e9a1-4ba3-bd13-36bab10ba0a3/images/3aac418f-b64c-4111-85dc-aa3eba6ca402.jpeg) The Holocaust claimed the lives of six million Jews. ![Top 7 Facts About World War 2](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8961007c-e9a1-4ba3-bd13-36bab10ba0a3/images/2c9d31fe-35ca-4b2c-b2a1-d8e792e1b9da.jpeg) World War II was a continuation of World War I. At the end of WWI, the Treaty of Versailles was signed. ![Top 7 Facts About World War 2](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8961007c-e9a1-4ba3-bd13-36bab10ba0a3/images/6a9e22fc-449d-4e2f-a939-303180ca1843.jpeg) The immediate cause of WWII was the German invasion of Poland. ![Top 7 Facts About World War 2](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8961007c-e9a1-4ba3-bd13-36bab10ba0a3/images/29b7dc3b-fe3b-4c0b-ba56-12f85dbecd4c.jpeg) The U.S was involved in WWII before the Pearl Harbor attack. ![Top 7 Facts About World War 2](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/8961007c-e9a1-4ba3-bd13-36bab10ba0a3/images/ad8c993c-9891-44c7-bae2-199920bce5d0.jpeg) Stalingrad was a major turning point in the war. On July 9, 1942, Hitler ordered the capture of the Soviet Union city of Stalingrad.

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