World War II was a global conflict on planet Earth, a large-scale war primarily fought between two international alliances, the Allies and the Axis Powers.

History and eventsEdit

Called a "world war" because of the extensive use of treaty and law to involve allied nation-states and colonial powers, meaning a number of singular conflicts would be compunded, involve numerous theaters of war, across the whole globe.

Numerous conflicts on the Asian continent preceded the recognized beginning of World War II, but the invasion of Poland in 1939 by Adolf Hitler's Nazis is generally considered to be the starting point of the larger conflict involving Europe. Because of Hitler's Axis treaty with the Empire of Japan, the Nazi government of Germany declared war on the United States in 1941 as a response to the US declaration of war with Japan after an attack at Pearl Harbor. Other Allied nations, including Great Britain and France, had been fighting the Nazis in Europe since the beginning of Hitler's aggression on that continent. Hitler initally counted Italy and the Soviet Union among his other Axis allies, but he betrayed the Soviets and attacked Josef Stalin's people, leaving the Communist USSR on the side of the Allies. The war ended in an Allied victory in 1945, following the detonation of atomic weapons over two Japanese cities.

Benny Russell served in the US Navy during World War II. (DS9 novel: Unity)

Following the German occupation of France, an underground resistance group was formed, calling themselves "Maquis". A 24th century group resisting Cardassian power in the Demilitarized Zone adopted the name "Maquis" from this group.

EventsEdit

• Battle of Britain
• Battle of Santa Cruz
• Normandy Invasion

Alternate timelinesEdit

The interference of Doctor Leonard McCoy following his journey through the Guardian of Forever to the year 1930 led to the delay of the United States' entry into the war until 1944. In this timeline, the war continued into 1955. (TOS episode: "The City on the Edge of Forever"; novel: Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows)

As a part of the Temporal Cold War, the Na'kuhl aided the German war effort, enabling them to occupy the American northeast in 1944. This timeline was negated by the efforts of Captain Jonathan Archer. (ENT episodes: "Storm Front, Parts I and II")

Mirror universeEdit

The Second World War also occurred in the mirror universe, with Japan as one as its participants. One of the results appears to have been a lessening of the power of Japan's emperor, as the Kyoto Imperial Palace was turned into a tourist attraction. (ENT - Mirror Universe novel: Age of the Empress)

PeopleEdit

Political leadersEdit

• Winston Churchill
• Adolf Hitler
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Josef Stalin
• Harry S. Truman

Military personnelEdit

• Vassili Chuikov
• Christopher Danton (USMC)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (US Army)
• Clark Gable (US Army Air Corps)
• Ghrath (Na'kuhl Nazi)
• Hermann Göring (marshal of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe)
• Osborne B. Hardison (US Navy captain, USS Enterprise)
• Thorveldt Jarrow (Swedish resistance)
• John F. Kennedy (US Navy lieutenant)
• John C. Kirk (US Army Air Corps lieutenant)
• Kraul (Na'kuhl Nazi)
• Douglas MacArthur (general of the US Army)
• Josef Mengele (Nazi Germany, military doctor)
• Ivan Romanoff
• Benny Russell (US Navy)
• Arthur Truman (US Army Air Corps)
• Vosk (Na'kuhl Nazi)
• Georgy Zhukov

Vehicles and aircraftEdit

• B-24 Liberator
• B-29 Superfortress
• Fockewulfe Fu-190
• Junkers Ju-52
• Mitsubishi A6M Zero
• P-39 Airacobra
• P-51 Mustang
• Supermarine Spitfire
• USS Enterprise (aircraft carrier CV-6)
• Yakovlev YAK-1

Weapons and technologyEdit

• M1 Garand
• M1911
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle
• M2 Browning
• V-2 Rocket

External linksEdit

• World War II article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• World War II article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.