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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
How To Use World War 2 In A Sentence
- The German military in World War 2 achieved most of its great victories with the Blitzkrieg tactic.
- What had been considered shell shock in the first World War, presumably due to petechial hemorrhages in the brain, became battle fatigue, then war neuroses, during World War 2. Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 1
- During World War 2, a team of would-be German saboteurs landed in Montauk, and were detected but not apprehended by a coast guard sentry, only to fail in their missions, absorbed into society at large. Michael Vazquez: Warhol Factory Auteur Paul Morrissey Premieres News From Nowhere In-Person at Lincoln Center Tonight
- Up until World War 2, practically all evangelical churches held two preaching services every Sunday; one aimed at edifying the church; the other at converting sinners.
- In the world of the Depression of the 1920s, and into the years of World War 2, Hollywood churned out an endless succession of highly stylised, escapist fantasies.
- During World War 2 he served in the 27th and 30th Battalions, playing for services teams and then for the famous 2nd NZEF "Kiwis" Army team which toured Europe after the war. New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
- Most of the time, my debates of World War 2 will be met with allegations of unsubstantiality.
- I mean it certainly has it s defensive value (I'm pretty sure it's the most indestructible thing in the marvel universe), but in the world war 2 sense, imagine the experience of hiding in a trech with your squad pinned down and all of a sudden the NAzi turret is knocked down by a red white and blue disc with a star in the middle of it. Joe Johnston on Why Chris Evans was Cast as Captain America | /Film
- This week marked the sixtieth anniversary of some of the most destructive episodes in the World War 2 carpet-bombing of Sofia and other Axis-allied capitals.
- Many Allied ships were torpedoed during World War 2 by the dreaded German U-Boats, which actively patrolled up and down the Firth of Forth.