World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a (26) ______ war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, ...

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World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a (26) ______ war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began (27) ______. It involved the vast majority (28) ______ the world’s countries-including all of the great powers – eventually forming two (29) ______ military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, (30) ______ directly involved more than 100 million people from (31) ______ 30 countries. In a state of “total war”, the major (32) ______ threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked (33) ______ mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres (in which approximately one (34) ______ were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it resulted (35) ______ an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history.

(26) ________

• A. national
• B. inside
• C. global
• D. oceanic