WWII

1. World War II.

WWII

abbreviation for

1. World War Two

Example Sentences

By the end of WWII, more than 31,000 people from Japan, Germany and Italy, as well as some Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, had been interned at camps and military facilities — in addition to the more than 100,000 Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated to the same camps and detained under different legal grounds, said Gabriel “Jack” Chin, a UC Davis professor who studies criminal and immigration law.

From Los Angeles Times

“The bad guys won in WWII. There were no 'good guys' in that war,” White wrote in a post still live on X, referring to the American, British and Soviet troops who defeated Nazi forces and liberated millions from concentration camps.

From Salon

After WWII, he worked as an accountant for Shell and BP before retiring in 1972.

From BBC

We must be extra careful with comparisons of any modern-day phenomenon to Nazi atrocities committed during WWII.

From Salon

The tradition was cemented in 1951, during the Korean War, when Gen. Douglas MacArthur, a popular war hero from WWII, ordered his soldiers to cross into North Korea and directly fight Chinese troops—defying President Harry Truman’s orders not to do so and, in fact, sabotaging Truman’s efforts to negotiate an armistice.

From Slate