World War II
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World War II
- /ˌwɜː(ɹ)ld ˌwɔː(ɹ)ˈtuː/
Where it comes from
From world war + two. The term was used for a hypothetical future war as early as 1819. It was first applied to the war in 1939-45 in an article in Time, dated September 11, 1939.
proper noun World War 2 · World War Two · WWII · WW2
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The war from 1939 to 1945 of the Allied forces, including the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the United States, France, and China, against the Axis Powers, including Germany, Italy, and Japan.
As students all over the United States knuckle down to learning, the rumble of war drums once more proclaims Mars high man in Europe. Discarding morbid curiosity, every student should consider it vitally necessary to get a general picture of the causes, movements, and possible effects of World War I
Similar: Second World War
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name war from 1939 to 1945
| Español | Segunda Guerra Mundial |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 제2차 세계 대전, 제이차 세계 대전 Jeicha segye daejeon |
| 日本語 | 第二次世界大戦, 第2次世界大戦 Dainiji Sekai Taisen |
| 中文 | 第二次世界大戰 /第二次世界大战 Dì-èr Cì Shìjiè Dàzhàn, 二戰 /二战 Èrzhàn |
| हिन्दी | द्वितीय विश्वयुद्ध dvitīya viśvayuddh |
| Kiswahili | Vita Kuu ya Pili ya Dunia |
| Português | Segunda Guerra Mundial |
| Français | Seconde Guerre mondiale, Deuxième Guerre mondiale |
| Deutsch | Zweiter Weltkrieg |
| Italiano | Seconda guerra mondiale |
| Ελληνικά | Β΄ Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος, Δεύτερος Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος Défteros Pagkósmios Pólemos |
| Română | Al Doilea Război Mondial |
| Русский | Втора́я мирова́я война́ Vtorája mirovája vojná |
| Tiếng Việt | Chiến tranh thế giới thứ hai, Đệ nhị thế chiến |
| العربية | الْحَرْبُ الْعَالَمِيَّةُ الثَّانِيَة al-ḥarbu l-ʕālamiyyatu ṯ-ṯāniya |
| עברית | מִלְחֶמֶת הָעוֹלָם הַשְּׁנִיָּה \ מלחמת העולם השנייה |
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title = {World War II},
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