Similar words: world war i, world war, world war 2, world war 1, World War one, world war two, worldwide, cold war. Meaning: n. a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945.
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151. World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American - built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
152. A treasure trove of sculptures banned by the Nazis has been uncovered from the bombed-out cellars of a Berlin house destroyed during World War II, German museum officials said on Monday.
153. He returned in 2005 to watch the massive May Day "Arirang" public demonstration in Pyongyang celebrating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
154. Before World War II, the French regarded their Maginot Line as an impregnable bulwark against a German invasion.
155. Richard Knerr and Arthur Melin, co-owners of an enterprise called the Wham-o Manufacturing Company, had started making slingshots after World War II with less than $1,000 capital.
156. 1943 - World War II: In Yugoslavia,[http://sentencedict.com/world war ii.html] resistance leader Marshal Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
157. Because the United States to take the Keynesian state intervention policy after World War II increase in national strength, the world's more powerful position impregnable .
158. They talk about overhauling financial institutions and having a new version of the post World War II Bretton Woods conference that established a new monetary and financial system.
159. He opposed the rearmament of Japan after world war ii.
160. Despite the meagerness of his output, Salinger, at 42, has spoken with more magic, particularly to the young, than any other U.S. writer since World War II.
161. Since World War II only two elected U.S. presidents have lost re-election - Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992.
162. At the close of World War II, Acheson was serving as Under Secretary of State.
163. Laden with bamboo and workers, a converted World War II U.S. Army jeep carries its load out of the mountains near Tangub, on the island of Mindanao.
164. The U.S. emerged from World War II as the globe's industrial, financial, and technological leader by default—the rest of the developed world had destroyed much of its industrial capacity.
165. s assassination, but turned it down), for assisting the French Resistance during World War II and for being the first American-born woman to receive the French military honor, the Croix de guerre.
166. During World War II he served as a staff officer with amphibious forces in the invasions of Sicily and Italy, but arrived in the Pacific in time for Okinawa.
167. It is a more recent addition to language, added to the vernacular of engineers through the argot of World War II airplane mechanics.
168. A well camouflaged Marine is giving silent instructions to a Marine Corps jungle-trained dog on the front lines of the beachhead in Bougainville, Soloman Islands, on Jan. 13, 1944 during World War II.
169. A camel leers over the wreckage left on the El Alamein battleground, May 18, 1950, where one of the crucial struggles of World War II was fought.
170. Finnish-Swedish research team said it has found a Soviet submarine that was sunk in a naval battle in the Battle Sea during World War II.
171. The cycloidal propeller was developed prior to World War II but was only occasionally used in tugs because of its manoeuvrability.
172. Big Ben, which is operated by the Palace of Westminster, survived attacks by German Luftwaffe bombers during World War II, continuing to mark the time to within 1 1/2 seconds of Greenwich Mean Time.
173. The photographer who captured World War II servicemen raising American flag over Iwo Jima has died.
174. Famous as the home of Lady Godiva in the th century, Coventry was severely damaged in air raids during World War II (November 940). Population, 38, '00.
175. Famous as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century, Coventry was severely damaged in air raids during World War II (November 1940). Population, 318,600.
176. It was 1943, during World War II, and I was a young U. S. coastguardsman.
177. The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in the World War II and later laid the roots for the CIA was fascinated with information.
178. World War II was a just war, in that the people in this had crushed Hitlerism and saved the world from slavery.
179. Pan's story epitomizes in many ways German military espionage during World War II.
180. A flat-bottomed vessel developed during World War II to land troops and cargo on open beaches and sometimes used as a weapons platform and hospital ship.
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