World War II

World War II
Clockwise from top left German soldiers advance through northern Russia · German flamethrower team · Soviet Ilyushin Il-2s over German positions near Moscow · Soviet POWs on the way to prison camps · Soviet soldiers fire artillery
Date	1 September 1939 – 4 July 1945
Place	Major theaters: Europe Pacific Atlantic Indian Ocean South-East Asia China Japan Middle East Mediterranean North Africa Horn of Africa Central Africa Australia Caribbean North and South America
Result	Axis Victory
Belligerents
Allies Major: United Kingdom Soviet Union (from 1941) United States (from 1941) Axis Major: German Reich Kingdom of Italy Empire of Japan Minor: Kingdom of Hungary Kingdom of Romania Tsardom of Bulgaria
Leaders
Main Allied leaders: Nikolai Bukharin Thomas E. Dewey Winston Churchill Chiang Kai-shek Main Axis leaders: Adolf Hitler Hirohito Benito Mussolini

World War II was an international conflict that was the decisive event creating the timeline of The New Order: Last Days of Europe, as the Axis victory propelled the Greater Germanic Reich and the Empire of Japan to the status of world powers and resulted in the destruction of the Allies.

In OTL, the Germans do not conquer the British mainland as Operation Sealion fails, and the Germans fail to capitulate the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. In the timeline of TNO, though, the Germans succeed in many of the decisive operations that failed for the Germans in OTL.