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It was called a world war because something like 42 nations world wide were involved in the war either as enemies of Japan, Germany and Italy or as allies of Russia, the USA and the UK. There were over 60 million people who were killed or injured in that war. Millions of people fought in that war. So it definitely was a world war and the biggest one and the deadliest one.

It was fought in all major parts of the world, except the poles and the Americas. Europe and the Asia-Pacific were the main areas, but also in Africa.

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