World War II

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World War II
Date:	1939-1945
Location:	Earth
Outcome:	The first use of human nuclear weapons.;

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World War II,^[4]^[5] also known as the Second World War^[3] and the Great Patriotic War,^[1] was a conflict on Earth.^[3]

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John Forge's family had members fight in World War II.^[6] During the war, the British cracked a German encryption scheme.^[7] Isoroku Yamamoto crippled the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.^[8] Also during the war, France created the Maginot Line.^[4] One of the bloodiest battles in the war was the Battle of Stalingrad.^[3]

The war came to a close with the first usage of human nuclear weapons at Nagasaki and Hiroshima.^[2] The bomb at Hiroshima left a domed structure still standing.^[9]

With the war's close in 1945, people danced in the streets and climbed lampposts to hoist flags, which were all recorded.^[1]

Following the Second World War, war photography was commonplace.^[10]

Some in the 26th-century confused World War II with other wars, like the Hundred Years War, and the Thirty Years War.^[7] World War II is taught in Russian schools in the 26th-century.^[5] The attack on Pearl Harbor was compared to the 26th-century Fall of Reach by Chief Petty Officer McRobb.^[11] France's Maginot Line became idiomatically associated with a Forerunner defensive strategy through Forerunner translation software, after this strategy was discovered by humans.^[4]

A building in Hiroshima, Japan that managed to remain standing in spite of the atomic bomb's blast.
Two soldiers amid the ruins of a city.
A civilian woman taking up arms during the conflict.