second world war

Noun second world war has 1 sense

• second world war(n = noun.act) world war 2, world war ii - 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;
is a kind of world war
has parts: bataan, corregidor, battle of britain, ardennes counteroffensive, battle of the ardennes bulge, battle of the bulge, battle of the bismarck sea, bismarck sea, battle of the coral sea, coral sea, dunkerque, dunkirk, al alamayn, battle of el alamein, el alamein, eniwetok, battle of guadalcanal, guadalcanal, invasion of iwo, iwo, iwo jima, kwajalein, leyte, leyte invasion, leyte island, battle of midway, midway, okinawa, okinawa campaign, battle of the philippine sea, philippine sea, saipan, salerno, battle of the somme, somme, somme river, makin, tarawa, tarawa-makin, battle of wake, battle of wake island