WWII

1. World War II.

WWII

abbreviation

1. World War Two

Example Sentences

In WWII, the U.K. and France failed to prevent the country’s invasion by the Nazis, despite mutual defense treaties.

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It is a measure of how seriously Poland and its neighbors see the Russian threat that Poland and Germany are now discussing the possibility of Berlin covering some of the cost as compensation for the damage it caused during WWII.

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After WWII, many of those women were summarily fired to make way for returning men.

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In terms of total capacity, the American Immigration Council estimates that the new funding will be enough to balloon ICE’s detention capacity to at least 116,000 beds, which is comparable to the total number of Japanese Americans interned during the whole of WWII.

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PBS, NPR and the Kennedy Center are more recent additions, but their aims and presence grow naturally from the kind of federal funding for arts and media prevalent during the Progressive Era and following WWII, when presidential administrations, of both parties, agreed with the founding fathers’ belief that democracy requires an informed electorate and Americans are entitled to free expression.

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