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|image       = [[File:American_landing_at_Omaha_Beach.PNG|300px]] American troops landing at Omaha Beach
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|begin      = September 1, 1939
|next=[[Jovian Moons Campaign]]
|end         = September 2, [[1945]]
|image=[[File:HINF MarketingWWII.png|300px]]
|place       = [[Earth]]
|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}}
|result     = *The Allied Nations defeat the Axis Powers.
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*The [[United Nations]] is formed.
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*The [[United States]] and the Soviet Union become military superpowers which leads to the [[wikipedia:Cold War|Cold War]]
*The first use of [[human]] nuclear weapons.{{Ref/Reuse|encyctimeline}}
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|commanders2 = [[wikipedia:Axis leaders of World War II|Axis Leaders]]
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|casual1     = *Around 61,000,000 total (mostly Soviet and Chinese 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]].


==History==
'''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>
World War II was the second military conflict in human history to be given the "World War" title, though it, and it's precurser, World War I, were by no means the first global war in Earth's history at that time . It was fought between the Axis powers and the Allies.


The war started in 1939 (this date is somewhat disputed - the Japanese had been fighting the Chinese sporadically since 1931, and an all-out war began in 1937) when Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, invaded Poland. Britain and France had allying pacts with Poland, and so both nations declared war on Nazi Germany. However, in 1940, during a disastrous retreat of the French 9th army from the Ardennes forest region, Army Group A broke into France, and the resulting ''blitzkrieg'' offensive quickly overtook the rest of the defenders. The Allies 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 338,000 men were evacuated.
==War==
===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}}


In 1941, three German army Groups (South, Centre and North) numbering 3,900,000 men and 3,600 tanks, rolled over Soviet controlled territory and began an 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, a Japanese carrier task force began a huge aerial assault 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 at the same time began attacking British, French, and Dutch colonies, American territories, and Australia.
===End of the war===
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>


1942 saw the Americans land in northern Africa, and with the British 8th Army, they pushed the German Afrika Corps out of North Africa and into Italy. Italy was invaded in 1943, with two British armies, and three American. Fighting in Italy would not subside until 1945.
==Aftermath==
===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}}


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. By early 1945, the Allies had invaded Germany from the east and west.
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.
===Distant affects of the war===
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}}


In April 1945, after beating back the German forces through occupied Soviet territory and Eastern Europe, the Red Army surrounded the German capital of Berlin. Hitler allegedly committed suicide, and  Karl Donitz was appointed to be the new Fuhrer as per his instruction. 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 8, when General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender for all German forces to the Allies.
==Gallery==
<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>


In the Pacific, the Americans had managed to take control of Iwo Jima, at a heavy cost. It was one of the few instances where American casualties exceeded the Japanese, 22,000 men were killed or wounded. The Americans would then attack Okinawa, the last island needed for an invasion of Japan. The Japanese Navy, now reduced to a tiny force, launched ''kamikaze'' suicide aircraft at the US invasion fleet.
==List of appearances==
*''[[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]]''


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 and Japanese casualties were expected to be in the tens of millions, with the nation's infrastructure almost totally destroyed. The planned invasion would land millions of Allied soldiers onto the Japanese islands, which would have made it the largest ever attempted naval invasion, dwarfing Operation Overlord, 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. ''
==Notes==
 
{{Ref/Notes}}
The war formally ended on September 2nd, 1945, six years and one day after war was declared. By the end, 78,000,000 people had died, most of them civilians.
 
==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 Organization was 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".
* The term "frag" when used to describe a Human fragmentation grenade originated in this frame of time.
 
===References in Halo===
* [[Colonel]] [[Herzog]] apparently researched World War II extensively.<ref>[[I Love Bees]] [http://transmit.ilovebees.com/surveillance_archive/week4_subject5.wav 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==
<references/>
{{Ref/Sources}}
 
==Related Pages==
*[[United Nations]]
*[[UN Charter]]


{{Human wars}}


{{Humanwars}}
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[[Category:Wars]]

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World War II
A civilian farmer carrying a wounded soldier through a World War II battlefield. From Forever We Fight.

Date:

1939[1][Note 1]-1945[2]

Location:

Earth[3]

Outcome:

  • The first use of human nuclear weapons.[2]
 

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

War[edit]

Details[edit]

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]

End of the war[edit]

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]

Aftermath[edit]

Shortly after the war[edit]

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

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

Distant affects of the war[edit]

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]

Gallery[edit]

  • A building in Hiroshima, Japan that managed to remain standing in spite of the atomic bomb's blast.

    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.

    Two soldiers amid the ruins of a city.

  • A civilian woman taking up arms during the conflict.

    A civilian woman taking up arms during the conflict.

List of appearances[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c 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.

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Halo: Glasslands, chapter 1
  2. ^ a b c Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition), Timeline, p. 31
  3. ^ a b c d Halo: Encyclopedia, Famous UNSC Ships, p. 260-261 (2009)
  4. ^ a b c Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe, The Forerunners Introduction, p. 175
  5. ^ a b Halo: Glasslands, page 321
  6. ^ Halo Wars: Official Strategy Guide, Factions: UNSC Leaders, Spirit of Bloody Fire. Cutter. Bloody hell., p. 22-23
  7. ^ a b I love bees, Axon Clips, Chapter 4 - Herzog: "Enigma"
  8. ^ Halo: Silent Storm, chapter 4
  9. ^ Halo Legends, Origins
  10. ^ Xbox.com: Jake Courage (defunct, Archived)
  11. ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 283

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