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

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: اَلْحَرْب اَلْعَالَمِيَّة اَلثَّانِيَة‎ f (al-ḥarbu l-ʿālamiyyatu ṯ-ṯāniya)
• Armenian: երկրորդ համաշխարհային պատերազմ (erkrord hamašxarhayin paterazm)
• Belarusian: друга́я сусве́тная вайна́ (druhája susvjétnaja vajná)
• Bulgarian: втора 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)

• Czech: druhá světová válka f
• Danish: anden verdenskrig c, 2. verdenskrig c
• Dutch: Tweede Wereldoorlog (nl) m
• 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
• Italian: Seconda guerra mondiale f
• Japanese: 第二次世界大戦 (dainiji sekai taisen)
• Khmer: សង្គ្រាមលោកលើកទី២ (songkreeum saagoloak dee pee)
• Korean: 제2차 세계 대전 (jeicha segye daejeon)
• Latvian: Otrais pasaules karš

• Luxembourgish: Zweete Weltkrich (lb) m
• Macedonian: Втора светска војна f (Vtóra svétska vójna)
• Malay: Perang Dunia Kedua
• Maltese: It-Tieni Gwerra Dinjija
• Maori: Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao
• Marathi: दुसरे विश्व युद्ध n (dusare 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
• 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
• Swedish: Andra världskriget n
• Thai: สงครามโลกครั้งที่สอง (sŏng kraam lôhk kráng têe sŏng)
• Turkish: İkinci Dünya Savaşı (tr), 2. Dünya Savaşı (tr)
• Ukrainian: друга світова війна f (drúha svitová vijná)
• Urdu: دوسری عالمی جنگ‎
• Vietnamese: chiến tranh thế giới thứ hai
• Volapük: volakrig telid
• Welsh: Yr Ail Ryfel Byd
• West Frisian: Twadde Wrâldkriich
• Yiddish: צווייטע וועלט מלחמה‎ (Tsveyte Welt Milkhome)

Further reading

• World War II on Wikipedia.Wikipedia