Proper noun
World War II
(history) The war from 1939 to 1945 of the Allied forces, including the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the United States, France, and China, against the Axis Powers, including Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems. Grace Hopper
The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast. Adolf Galland
I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II. Christopher Vokes
When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions. John Mearsheimer
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II. Kenneth Arrow
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay. Doc Hastings