WWII

1. World War II.

WWII

abbreviation

1. World War Two

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Salon

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.

From Los Angeles Times

It's not the first time, and I'm not talking about the Palmer raids in WWI or the Japanese Internment in WWII, both of which were shameful episodes in which the president used this obscure wartime power to detain, imprison and deport people based solely on their ancestry or national origin under the suspicion that they might commit sabotage or espionage.

From Salon

The Pentagon websites recognizing the contributions of racial minorities such as the Tuskegee Airmen, the Navajo Code talkers and baseball legend Jackie Robinson, as well as all the women pilots going all the way back to WWII, were taken down with urls that distinctly said "DEI."

From Salon