World War II

English

Proper noun

World War II

1. (historical) The war from 1939 to 1945 of the Allied forces, including the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the United States, France, and China, against the Axis Powers, including Germany, Italy, and Japan.
   • 2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism‎^[1], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 182:

     If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.

Synonyms

• Second World War, World War 2, WW2, WWII

Hyponyms

• European War
• Pacific War, (The) War in the Pacific

Related terms

• world war
• World War I
• World War III
• World War IV

Translations

war from 1939 to 1945

• Afrikaans: Tweede Wêreldoorlog
• Albanian: Lufta e Dytë Botërore
• Arabic: اَلْحَرْبُ اَلْعَالَمِيَّةُ اَلثَّانِيَة‎ f (al-ḥarbu l-ʿālamiyyatu ṯ-ṯāniya)
• Armenian: երկրորդ համաշխարհային պատերազմ (erkrord hamašxarhayin paterazm)
• Azerbaijani: İkinci Dünya Müharibəsi
• Belarusian: друга́я сусве́тная вайна́ (druhája susvjétnaja vajná)
• Bulgarian: вто́ра световна война f (vtóra svetovna vojna)
• Catalan: Segona Guerra Mundial f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第二次世界大戰 (zh), 第二次世界大战 (zh) (dì'èrcì shìjiè dàzhàn)

• Crimean Tatar: Ekinci Cian cenki
• Czech: druhá světová válka f
• Danish: anden verdenskrig c, 2. verdenskrig c
• Dutch: Tweede Wereldoorlog (nl) m
• Esperanto: Dua Mondmilito
• Estonian: Teine maailmasõda
• Finnish: toinen maailmansota (fi)
• French: Seconde Guerre mondiale (fr) f, Deuxième Guerre mondiale (fr)
• Galician: Segunda Guerra Mundial
• Georgian: მეორე მსოფლიო ომი (meore msoplio omi)
• German: Zweiter Weltkrieg (de) m
• Greek: Β΄ Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος (el) m (V΄ Pagkósmios Pólemos)
• Hebrew: מלחמת העולם השנייה‎
• Hindi: द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध m (dvitīya viśva yuddh), द्वितीय महायुद्ध m (dvitīya mahāyuddh)
• Hungarian: második világháború (hu)
• Icelandic: seinni heimsstyrjöldin, síðari heimsstyrjöldin, heimsstyrjöldin síðari
• Interlingua: Secunde Guerra Mundial c
• Italian: Seconda guerra mondiale f
• Japanese: 第二次世界大戦 (dainiji sekai taisen)
• Kannada: ಎರಡನೇ ಮಹಾಯುದ್ಧ (eraḍanē mahāyuddha)
• Kazakh: екінші дүниежүзілік соғыс (ekinşi dünïejüzilik soğıs)
• Khmer: សង្គ្រាមលោកលើកទី២ (sɑngkriəm look ləək tii pii)
• Korean: 제이차 세계 대전 (jeicha segye daejeon)

• Latin: secundum bellum mundiale n, secundum bellum mundanum n
• Latvian: Otrais pasaules karš
• Luxembourgish: Zweete Weltkrich (lb) m
• Macedonian: Втора светска војна f (Vtora svetska vojna)
• Malay: Perang Dunia Kedua
• Maltese: It-Tieni Gwerra Dinjija
• Maori: Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao
• Marathi: दुसरे विश्व युद्ध n (dusre viśva yuddha)
• Navajo: naaki góneʼ yéigo daʼahijoogą́ą́ʼ
• Norman: Deuxième Dgèrre Mondiale f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: andre verdenskrig m

  Nynorsk: andre verdskrigen m

• Persian: جنگ جهانی دوم‎ (jang-e jahâni-ye dovvom)
• Polish: druga wojna światowa (pl) f, II wojna światowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Segunda Guerra Mundial f
• Romanian: Al Doilea Război Mondial m
• Russian: Втора́я мирова́я война́ (ru) f (Vtorája mirovája vojná)
• Scottish Gaelic: Dara Cogadh Mòr m
• Spanish: Segunda Guerra Mundial f
• Swahili: Vita Kuu ya Pili ya Dunia
• Swedish: andra världskriget (sv) n
• Telugu: రెండవ ప్రపంచ యుద్ధం (reṇḍava prapañca yuddhaṃ)
• Thai: สงครามโลกครั้งที่สอง (sǒng-kraam-lôok-kráng-tîi-sɔ̌ɔng)
• Turkish: İkinci Dünya Savaşı (tr), 2. Dünya Savaşı (tr)
• Ukrainian: дру́га світова́ війна́ f (drúha svitová vijná)
• Urdu: دوسری عالمی جنگ‎ f (dūsrī 'ālami jaṅg)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: Иккинчи Жаҳон Уруши

  Latin: Ikkinchi Jahon Urushi

• Vietnamese: chiến tranh thế giới thứ hai, Đệ nhị thế chiến
• Volapük: volakrig telid
• Welsh: Yr Ail Ryfel Byd
• West Frisian: Twadde Wrâldkriich
• Yiddish: צווייטע וועלט מלחמה‎ (tsveyte velt milkhome)

Further reading

• World War II on Wikipedia.Wikipedia