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World War II Snapshots

Your Guide to the most consequential era in modern history

Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, each driven by a sense of racial and cultural superiority, begin attacking neighboring countries, butchering and enslaving millions of people.

A coalition of Western democracies, Chinese nationalists, and Soviet communists hold the line and eventually turn the tables on the Axis Powers.

The war results in more than 60 million dead worldwide, two-thirds of them civilians, and entire cities and countries left in ruin.

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