Where was world war 2 fought?

Answer 1

all throughout the world. Hence the name.

Answer 2

First in Europe and in theaters (locations) from Italy, Northern states in Africa and all across Europe including Great Britain, France, Germany, etc. When the Japanese attacked out ships in Pearl Harbor in 1941 we went to war with that country. We had the help of our allies but mostly it was good old American grit and great, great generals and a great president, etc. that stomped the enemies, Germany and Japan. We had gotten into Berlin when Hitler took his deadly pill when he realized he was through when President Harry Truman and the generals rightly decided to drop two atom bombs on Japan - that brought an abrupt end to the war. WWII, like WWI (Germans), were the "Great Wars" because they involved threats to the world, not just the USA. Conflicts since then have been questionable but a reality. In their time, War and conflicts evolve. Only history can critique the decisions.

Answer 3

It was called World War II because it was fought in Europe, Africa and Asia plus across the oceans and even to America (Pearl Harbor).

Answer 4

Basically, everywhere except Antarctica.

Even besides Asia, Europe and Africa, and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, there were espionage aspects to the war going on in areas untouched by combat.

Answer 5

Europe, Asia, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean, that's why it was called a WORLD war, it involved most nations in the world and spanned the globe.

Answer 6

Europe, the South Pacific and Asia

Answer 7

oh geez....
all over europe, pretty much. and Japan.
The only battle that took place on U.S. soil was Pearl Harbor.
there were some battles for islands in the atlantic and pacific that are U.S. territories (philipeen islands), but they are not states.

The main ones would be England, Germany, France, Poland, Russia. That's all I can think of right now.

Answer 8

World War II, or the Second World War, was a worldwide conflict fought between the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers, from 1939 until 1945. It was the largest armed conflict the world has ever seen, and remains one of the most significant events in all of human history. World War II involved military forces from over seventy nations; air, land and sea battles spanning much of the globe; and resulted in the death of over sixty million people. The war was brought to an end in 1945 with the Allies victorious.

Europe
The war started in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, invaded Poland. The United Kingdom and France responded by declaring war on Germany two days later. Vast areas of Europe and North Africa, as well as the oceans, became battlefields. The German Blitzkrieg rapidly overwhelmed Poland in 1939, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and France in 1940, and Yugoslavia and Greece in 1941. By summer 1941, Germany had conquered France and most of Western Europe, but it had failed to subdue the United Kingdom due to the success of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.

Hitler then turned on the Soviet Union, opening a surprise attack on June 22, 1941. Despite enormous gains, the invasion bogged down outside of Moscow in late 1941. The Soviets later encircled and captured the German Sixth Army at the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43), decisively defeated the Axis during the Battle of Kursk, and broke the Siege of Leningrad. The Red Army then pursued the retreating Wehrmacht all the way to Berlin, and won the street-by-street Battle of Berlin, as Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker on 30 April 1945.

Meanwhile, the western Allies invaded North Africa (1942) and Italy (1943), then liberated France following amphibious landings in the Battle of Normandy in 1944. Repulsing a German counterattack at the Battle of the Bulge in December, the Allies crossed the Rhine River and linked up with the Soviets at the Elbe River in central Germany.

During the war, the Germans murdered millions of Jews, Roma, and other minorities in a state-sponsored genocide known as the Holocaust.

Asia and the Pacific
In Asia, Japan had invaded China in 1937 and had plans to expand to most of East and South-East Asia. To preempt any American actions in the area, foreshadowed by a small, in economic terms, but politically significant, American commercial embargo on scrap metal and oil exports to the island nation, Japan on December 7, 1941, attacked the American fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor. After six months of sweeping successes, including victory in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese were decisively defeated in the Battle of Midway, in which they lost four aircraft carriers. American submarines gradually cut off the supply of oil and other raw materials to Japan. After the close-fought Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942, the Americans achieved victory in a series of great naval battles such as the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, and invasions of key islands such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945. The Americans and Allies had over a million infantry poised to invade the home islands of Japan in late 1945.

The Japanese in October 1944 started using Kamikaze aircraft on suicide missions. Loaded with explosives, the Japanese warplanes were piloted in suicide dives into American warships, delivering a far more effective blow than trying to drop a bomb.

The American strategic bombing campaign against Japan depended on development of the very long-range B-29 bomber, which by 1945 burned out Tokyo and most of Japan's larger cities with fire bombs and ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945.

Aftermath
About 62 million people, or 2.5% of the world population, died in the war, though estimates vary greatly (refer to the Casualties section). The war concluded with the surrender and occupation of Germany and Japan. The United Nations was founded in 1945. After World War II, Europe was informally split into Western and Soviet spheres of influence, which set the stage for the Cold War. In Asia, however, the defeat of Japan led to its democratization and independence for China and Korea. China's civil war was finally won by the Communists under Mao Zedong, who created the People's Republic of China. The war also resulted in many ideological revolutions, the establishment of new states, technological innovations, and changes in society.

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Answer 9

europe!