The global calamity that was the Third Global War, which lasted from the Argentinean Invasion of Uruguay on February 17, 1940, to the Unconditional Surrender of China on December 5, 1946. The war was fought by two major alliances: the National Socialist nations of the world, namely Germany, the United Kingdom and the Confederate States of America, united in the National Socialist Alliance. The other alliance, the Grand Alliance, was composed mostly of the world's democracies, such as Russia and the United States of America, as well as the right-wing and Sorelist dictatorships of France and Japan. In all, it is estimated that over 100 million people around the world, which includes military and civilian deaths, as well as the estimated 23 million killed in the National Socialist nations ba