World War II

noun

: the war that was fought mainly in Europe and Asia from 1939 to 1945

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Similarly, blitzkrieg—an evolution of the same German military principles—would be used against the Allies in World War II to great and terrible effect. Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024 The foundations for public key cryptography were first discovered between 1970 and 1974 by British mathematicians working for the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters, the same government agency that cracked the Nazi Enigma code during World War II. John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2024 The Supreme Court’s deference to FDR during World War II resulted in unjustifiable ethical breaches, but its new code of conduct has not resolved the question of when a justice should be disqualified from a case. Jed S. Rakoff, The New York Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2024 When Americans went on a car-buying binge after World War II, states like Michigan widened their highways with the goal of keeping traffic moving quickly, a prime directive for engineers. David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for World War II 

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