Second World War

noun

1. World War II.

Second World War

noun

1. another name for World War II

Example Sentences

In a symbolic moment of reconciliation, he also went to Hamburg where he laid a wreath remembering those who had died in the Allied bombing of the city during the Second World War.

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The festival was a national exhibition to promote the country's art, design, technology and science and uplift the public after the Second World War.

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“We were born in the Second World War, 1944 and we had rations — we were living on suet and you were living on steak here,” Daltrey said in his own interview.

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A 500kg unexploded Second World War bomb found in a Plymouth back garden triggered a warning to some 50,000 phones in February last year.

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This was August 2015 and Europe was witnessing the greatest movement in population since the end of the Second World War.

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