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a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945 (Freq. 2)
• Syn: ↑World War 2, ↑Second World War
• Members of this Topic: ↑Free French, ↑Fighting French
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑world war
• Part Meronyms:
↑Bataan, ↑Corregidor, ↑Battle of Britain, ↑Battle of the Ardennes Bulge, ↑Battle of the Bulge, ↑Ardennes counteroffensive, ↑Bismarck Sea, ↑battle of the Bismarck Sea, ↑Coral Sea, ↑battle of the Coral Sea, ↑Dunkirk, ↑Dunkerque, ↑El Alamein, ↑Al Alamayn, ↑Battle of El Alamein, ↑Eniwetok, ↑Guadalcanal, ↑Battle of Guadalcanal, ↑Iwo, ↑Iwo Jima, ↑invasion of Iwo, ↑Kwajalein, ↑Leyte, ↑Leyte Island, ↑Leyte invasion, ↑Midway, ↑Battle of Midway, ↑Okinawa, ↑Okinawa campaign, ↑Philippine Sea, ↑battle of the Philippine Sea, ↑Saipan, ↑Salerno, ↑Somme, ↑Somme River, ↑Battle of the Somme, ↑Tarawa, ↑Makin, ↑Tarawa-Makin, ↑Battle of Wake, ↑Battle of Wake Island
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the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. Abbr.: WWII
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the second world war http://www.macmillandictionary.com/med2cd/weblinks/world-war-ii.htm
Thesaurus: cold war and wars in historyhyponym
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a war (1939 - 45) in which the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) were defeated by an alliance eventually including the United Kingdom and its dominions, the Soviet Union, and the U.S
Encyclopedic information:
Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 led Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany. Germany defeated and occupied France the following year and soon overran much of Europe. Italy joined the war in 1940, and the U.S. and Japan entered after the Japanese attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. Italy surrendered in 1943, and the Allies launched a full-scale invasion in Normandy in June 1944. The war in Europe ended when Germany surrendered in May 1945; Japan surrendered after the U.S. dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. An estimated 55 million people were killed during the war, including a much higher proportion of civilians than in World War I
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Useful english dictionary. 2012.