English > World War II: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | 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. |
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| Synonyms | World War 2, Second World War |
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| Category of | Free French, Fighting French | A French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republic |
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| Instance of | world war | A war in which the major nations of the world are involved |
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| Parts | Bataan, Corregidor | The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II |
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| Battle of Britain | The prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it |
| Battle of Wake, Battle of Wake Island | In December 1941 the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines |
| Battle of the Ardennes Bulge, Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes counteroffensive | A battle during World War II |
| Bismarck Sea, battle of the Bismarck Sea | A naval battle in World War II |
| Coral Sea, battle of the Coral Sea | A Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942) |
| Dunkirk, Dunkerque | An amphibious evacuation in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire |
| El Alamein, Al Alamayn, Battle of El Alamein | A pitched battle in World War II (1942) resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel |
| Eniwetok | World War II (February 1944) |
| Guadalcanal, Battle of Guadalcanal | A battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943) |
| Iwo, Iwo Jima, invasion of Iwo | A bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945) |
| Kwajalein | An amphibious assault in the Pacific in World War II (January 1944) |
| Leyte, Leyte Island, Leyte invasion | A battle in World War II |
| Midway, Battle of Midway | naval battle of World War II (June 1942) |
| Okinawa, Okinawa campaign | A campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945) |
| Philippine Sea, battle of the Philippine Sea | A naval battle in World War II (1944) |
| Saipan | US forces captured the island from the Japanese in July 1944 |
| Salerno | A battle in World War II |
| Somme, Somme River, Battle of the Somme | battle of World War II (1944) |
| Tarawa, Makin, Tarawa-Makin | battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943) |
| Spanish | Segunda Guerra Mundial, World War II |
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| Catalan | Segona Guerra Mundial |
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