Copper War

World War II
File:Changde battle.jpg File:2-8 Field Regt.jpg File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R76619, Russland, Kesselschlacht Stalingrad.jpg File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-646-5188-17, Flugzeuge Junkers Ju 87.jpg File:Wilhelm Keitel Kapitulation.jpg File:USS Pennsylvania moving into Lingayen Gulf.jpg Clockwise from top left: Chinese forces in the Battle of Changde Australian 25-pounder guns during the First Battle of El Alamein German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front in December 1943 US naval force in the Lingayen Gulf Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad
Date 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 (1939-09-01 – 1945-09-02) (6 years and 1 day) Location Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, South-East Asia, China, Japan, Middle East, Mediterranean, North Africa, Horn of Africa, Central Africa, Australia, briefly North and South America Result Allied victory Fall of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan Allied military occupations of Germany, Japan, Austria and foundation of the Italian Republic in place of the Kingdom of Italy Beginning of the Nuclear Age Dissolution of the League of Nations and creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers and beginning of the Cold War (See Aftermath of World War II)
Participants
Allies	Axis
Commanders and leaders
Main Allied leaders: Joseph Stalin Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill Chiang Kai-shek	Main Axis leaders: Adolf Hitler Hirohito Benito Mussolini
Casualties and losses
Military dead: Over 16,000,000 Civilian dead: Over 45,000,000 Total dead: Over 61,000,000 (1937–1945) ...further details	Military dead: Over 8,000,000 Civilian dead: Over 4,000,000 Total dead: Over 12,000,000 (1937–1945) ...further details

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The **copper war** was a wide-reaching military conflict that happened at some point.