second world war

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second world war - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Second World War
      n 1: 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 [syn: World War II, World War 2, Second World War
           ]