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Second World

Proper noun

Meaning

the Second World

Those countries aligned with the East during the Cold War, particularly in contrast to those aligned with the West (First World).

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

“75 years ago this week, our brave United States Marines landed on the shores of Iwo Jima and began one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War. Source: Internet

Account of a survivor of the biggest shipping disaster in the Second World War.) Motorbuch Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-613-01027-5; *Die letzte Fahrt der Wilhelm Gustloff. Source: Internet

Adolf Eichmann was one of the arrow heads of the Holocaust in Germany during the Second World War. Source: Internet

A church was planned in the 1930s but delayed by the Second World War : the Church of St Mary and St Petroc was eventually consecrated in 1965: Dyer, Peter (2005) Tintagel: a portrait of a parish. Source: Internet

After the founding of the PRC, Zhou was unable or unwilling to protect the former spies that he had employed in the Chinese Civil War and the Second World War, who were persecuted for their wartime contacts with the enemies of the CCP. Source: Internet

Acoustic homing formed the basis for torpedo guidance after the Second World War. Source: Internet

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