World War 2

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World War 2 - 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 Synonyms: Second World War, World War II

Al Alamayn, Ardennes counteroffensive, Bataan, Battle of Britain, Battle of El Alamein, Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Midway, Battle of the Ardennes Bulge, battle of the Bismarck Sea, Battle of the Bulge, battle of the Coral Sea, battle of the Philippine Sea, Battle of the Somme, Battle of Wake, Battle of Wake Island, Bismarck Sea, Coral Sea, Corregidor, Dunkerque, Dunkirk, El Alamein, Eniwetok, Fighting French, Free French, Guadalcanal, invasion of Iwo, Iwo, Iwo Jima, Kwajalein, Leyte, Leyte invasion, Leyte Island, Makin, Midway, Okinawa, Okinawa campaign, Philippine Sea, Saipan, Salerno, Second World War, Somme, Somme River, Tarawa, Tarawa-Makin, world war, World War II