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|name=World War II
{{Infobox Military Conflicts
|prev=[[World War I]]
|name        = World War II
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|image       = [[Image:American_landing_at_Omaha_Beach.PNG|300px]]
|next=[[Jovian Moons Campaign]]
|begin      = September 1, 1939
|image=[[File:HINF MarketingWWII.png|300px]]
|end        = September 2, [[1945]]
|date=[[1939]]{{Ref/Reuse|glaslandchapt1}}{{Ref/Note|Id=glasslands|Given the known scale of the war, on top of the known end date of the conflict as well as the character making the comments knowing about World War II, it is almost certain that the 6 year Great Patriotic War is World War II.}}-[[1945]]{{Ref/Reuse|encyctimeline}}
|place       = [[Earth]]
|place=[[Earth]]{{Ref/Reuse|famousshipp260}}
|result     = *The Allied Nations defeat the Axis Powers.
|result=
*The [[United Nations]] is formed.
*The first use of [[human]] nuclear weapons.{{Ref/Reuse|encyctimeline}}
*The [[United States]] and the Soviet Union become military superpowers which led to the [[wikipedia:Cold War|Cold War]]
|side1=
|side1       = Allied Nations (also operating under the name of "[[United Nations]]"<ref>[[wikipedia:Declaration_by_United_Nations|Declaration by United Nations]]</ref>)
|side2=
|side2       = Axis Nations
|side3=
|commanders1 = *[[United States of America]]
|side4=
*[[United Kingdom|British Empire]]
|commanders1=
*France
|commanders2=
*Poland
|commanders3=
*[[Canada]]
|commanders4=
*[[Australia]]
|forces1=
*USSR
|forces2=
* And many more Earth nations
|forces3=
|commanders2 = *Nazi[[Germany| Germany]]
|forces4=
*Empire of [[Japan]]
|casual1=
*Italy
|casual2=
*Romania
|casual3=
*Hungary
|casual4=
*Finland (Co-Belligerent)
* And many more Earth nations
|forces1     = Joint Navy, Army, Air Force and [[Marine]] forces.
|forces2     = Joint Navy, Army, Air Force and [[Marine]] forces.
|casual1     = *Around 50,000,000 total (mostly Soviet and Chinese civilians)
|casual2     = *Around 12,000,000 total (mostly German and Japanese civilians)
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'''World War II''', or abbreviated as '''WWII''', was an international [[human]] conflict that occurred on [[Earth]] between 1939 and [[1945]].


'''World War II''',{{Ref/Reuse|forerunnerintro}}{{Ref/Reuse|glasslandsp321}} also known as the '''Second World War'''{{Ref/Reuse|famousshipp260}} and the '''[[Wikipedia:Great Patriotic War (term)|Great Patriotic War]]''',{{Ref/Novel|Id=glaslandchapt1|Halo: Glasslands|Chapter=1}}{{Ref/NoteReuse|glasslands}} was a [[war|conflict]] on [[Earth]].<ref name="famousshipp260">''Halo: Encyclopedia'', Famous UNSC Ships, p. 260-261 (2009)</ref>
==History==
World War II was the second global military conflict in human history. The war started when Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, invaded Poland. Britain and France had allying pacts with Poland, and so Britain and her empire declared war on Nazi Germany. However during a disastrous retreat of the French ninth army from the Ardennes forest region, Army Group A Broke into France, and immediately headed Northward to surround Allied forces. The BEF (British expeditionary force) as well as the French army, retreated to a small pocket around Calais and Dunkirk. The slowly shrinking pocket was evacuated by a Royal Navy force of 'Little ships', and around 350,000 men were evacuated.


==War==
In 1941, three German army Groups (South, Centre and North) numbering 3,000,000 men and 10,000 tanks, rolled over Soviet controlled territory and began a '''blitzkrieg''' offensive toward Moscow. The Red Army, outnumbering the Germans massively, was forced back into Russia, and by the winter of 1941, the Germans had reached the suburbs of Moscow. Meanwhile, in December 1941, six Japanese carriers began a huge aerial attack on the US naval base of Pearl Harbor. They sunk or seriously damaged 21 ships, including 8 battleships, and brought the USA onto the Allied side of the war. The Japanese and Italy formed a tripartite pact with Nazi Germany, alas, the Japanese and the Germans were forced to fight separate wars.
===Details===
[[John Forge]]'s [[Forge family|family]] had members fight in World War II.<ref>''[[Halo Wars: Official Strategy Guide]]'', Factions: UNSC Leaders, [[Spirit of Bloody Fire. Cutter. Bloody hell.]], p. 22-23</ref> During the war, the [[Britain|British]] cracked a [[Germany|German]] encryption scheme.<ref name="ilbenigma">''[[I love bees]]'', [[Axon Clips]], [[Axon Clips Chapter 4|Chapter 4]] - Herzog: "Enigma"</ref> [[Wikipedia:Isoroku Yamamoto|Isoroku Yamamoto]] crippled the [[United States|US]] [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] [[Fleet]] at [[Wikipedia:Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=hsschapter4|[[Halo: Silent Storm]]|Chapter=4}} Also during the war, [[France]] created the [[Wikipedia:Maginot Line|Maginot Line]].<ref name="forerunnerintro">''Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe'', The Forerunners Introduction, p. 175</ref> One of the bloodiest [[battle]]s in the war was the [[Wikipedia:Battle of Stalingrad|Battle of Stalingrad]].{{Ref/Reuse|famousshipp260}}


===End of the war===
1942 saw the Americans land in north Africa, and with the British 8th Army, they pushed the German Afrika Corps out of North Africa and into Italy. Italy was invaded, with two British armies, and three American. Fighting in Italy would not subside until 1945.
The war came to a close with the first usage of [[human]] [[nuclear weapon]]s at [[Japan|Nagasaki and Hiroshima]].<ref name="encyctimeline">''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]'', Timeline, p. 31</ref> The bomb at Hiroshima left a [[Wikipedia:Hiroshima Peace Memorial|domed structure]] still standing.<ref name="hlegorigins">''[[Halo Legends]]'', [[Origins]]</ref>


==Aftermath==
In 1944, 153,000 American, Canadian, Free French, Polish and British Empire troops landed on 5 separate beaches ( West to East: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword) and dropped into three separate landing zones in Normandy. German resistance in some areas was strong, with American losses on Omaha beach reaching 3,000 dead, wounded or missing. However the Germans were forced back, and hundreds of thousands of German equipment and troops, were surrounded near Falaise. The surrounded troops, were picked off by superior allied aircraft, where they were bombarded with bullets bombs and rockets...  
===Shortly after the war===
With the war's close in 1945, people danced in the streets and climbed lampposts to hoist flags, which were all recorded.{{Ref/Reuse|glaslandchapt1}}{{Ref/NoteReuse|glasslands}}


Following the Second World War, war photography was commonplace.<ref name="jakecouragexbox">''Xbox.com'': Jake Courage (defunct, [https://archives.halopedia.org/halo3/jakecourage/ Archived])</ref>
In the Pacific, where American forces were 'island hopping' their way to Japan, they had successfully captured the Philippines, as well as New Guinea, Rabaul, the Solomon Islands, the Marianas, and were moving to attack Iwo Jima. The British had also began a large offensive in Burma, and were pushing the Japanese back into China, where they had invaded, in 1938.


===Distant affects of the war===
In April 1945, the Red Army surrounded the German capital of Berlin. Hitler committed suicide, and he appointed Hermann Goering, the new Fuhrer. They refused to surrender, and so the Soviets bombarded the city and sent wave after wave of troops into the city to capture it. It didn't finally capitulate until May, when the Russians waved the Red soviet flag over the Reichstag, the German parliament building.
Some in the 26th-century confused World War II with other wars, like the [[Wikipedia:Hundred Years War|Hundred Years War]], and the [[Wikipedia:Thirty Years War|Thirty Years War]].{{Ref/Reuse|ilbenigma}} World War II is taught in [[Russia]]n schools in the 26th-century.{{Ref/Novel|Id=glasslandsp321|[[Halo: Glasslands]]|Page=321}} The attack on Pearl Harbor was compared to the 26th-century [[Fall of Reach]] by [[Chief Petty Officer]] [[McRobb]].{{Ref/Novel|[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]|Page=283}} France's Maginot Line became idiomatically associated with a [[Forerunner]] [[Jat-Krula|defensive strategy]] through Forerunner translation software, after this strategy was discovered by [[humans]].{{Ref/Reuse|forerunnerintro}}


==Gallery==
In the Pacific, the Americans had managed to take control of Iwo Jima, at a heavy cost. It was the one island were American casualties were higher than that of the Japanese, 22,000 men were killed or wounded. They had attacked Okinawa, the last island needed for an invasion of Japan, and the fanatical Japanese defenders, were holding on by the skin of their teeth. The Japanese navy, now reduced to a tiny force, launched '''kamikaze''' aircraft at the US invasion fleet. They would suicidally attack US shipping, with their planes filled with explosive. Nearly 200 US ships were damaged by kamikazes.
<gallery>
File:Hiroshima.png|A [[Wikipedia:Hiroshima Peace Memorial|building]] in Hiroshima, Japan that managed to remain standing in spite of the atomic bomb's blast.  
File:HL OriginsII WWIIsoldiers.png|Two soldiers amid the ruins of a city.
File:HINF MarketingAriane.png|A [[civilian]] [[Ariane|woman]] taking up arms during the conflict.
</gallery>


==List of appearances==
US generals knew that an invasion of Japan would be a costly enterprise. The defenders would attack with such fanaticism that US casualties were expected to exceed 1,000,000 men. The planned invasion would land over 600,000 troops on the island of Kyushu, and North of Tokyo, making it the largest ever attempted, making it nearly 4 times larger than D-day, the invasion of Normandy. But it was not to be, two B-29 Superfortresses took off from their bases in the Marianas. They dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, On August 6th and three days later on Nagasaki. Several days later, the Japanese formally surrendered aboard the battleship, USS ''Missouri. ''
*''[[Halo Wars: Official Strategy Guide]]''
**''[[Spirit of Bloody Fire. Cutter. Bloody hell.]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Halo Legends]]''
**''[[Origins]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Glasslands]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Tales from Slipspace]]
**''[[Undefeated]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Become]]''
**''[[Forever We Fight]]''


==Notes==
The war formally ended on September 3rd, 1945, making it six years to the day that war was declared. By the end, 50,000,000 people had died. The Soviet Union had lost over half the amount of casualties.
{{Ref/Notes}}
 
==The United Nations==
{{main|United Nations}}
As a result of the Allied victory (the United States of America, Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and others) over the Axis Nations (Nazi Germany, Italy, Japan and others), the [[United Nations Charter]] was signed on June 26, [[1945]], marking the replacement of the defunct ''League of Nations'' and the creation of the [[United Nations]]. The United Nations were formed with a goal of international peacekeeping by means of collective security.
 
==Types of ammunition still in use in the Human-Covenant War==
*.30 caliber (confetti maker)
*12.7x99mm (M41 LAAG)
*14.5x114mm (SRS99 series)
*90mm gun (M808B Scorpion)
 
==Trivia ==
===Miscellaneous===
*The paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day and during Operation Market Garden inspired the [[UNSC]]'s [[ODST]]s, although the concept had to be rethought for Zero-G.
*It may be possible that the concept for the [[Brute]] [[Spike Grenade]] was inspired by a German hand grenade known as the "the Potato Masher" or more specifically the "Stielhandgranate".
 
===References in Halo===
* [[Colonel]] [[Herzog]] apparently researched World War II extensively.<ref>[[I Love Bees]] [http://transmit.ilovebees.com/surveillance_archive/week4_subject5.wav]</ref>
*The war has been analyzed in comparison to the [[Human-Covenant War]].<ref>'''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]'''</ref>
*The Maginot Sphere mentioned by the [[Forerunner]] in the Terminals is inspired by the Maginot Line, the French defensive fortifications along the Franco-German border stretching from the Ardennes to the Franco-Swiss border before the war.
*[[John Forge]]'s family has had a military tradition dating back to this time.


==Sources==
==Sources==
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==Related Pages==
*[[United Nations]]
*[[UN Charter]]


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