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Second World War

Second World War

noun

  1. another name for World War II

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The most recent version, the fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, was adopted after the Second World War and was intended to stop the mass killing of civilians from happening again.

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Previously he was director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk where he changed the exhibition to emphasise Polish heroism and suffering during the conflict.

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"An opportunity to think big and to act bigger. An opportunity for Canada to embark on the largest transformation of its economy since the Second World War."

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UK government debt ballooned to 250% of GDP by the end of the Second World War.

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Artefacts from the Second World War were processed through Westminster Abbey by members of the Armed Services.

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