WWII
Global 1940s conflict
WWII is an abbreviation for World War II, the global conflict fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Allied powers (including the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union) and the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan).
The abbreviation appears in both formal and casual contexts: My grandfather served in WWII.
Also written WW2 or W.W.II.
Wartime fascist alliance
- AlliesWWII's victorious coalition
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- pactFormal agreement between parties
- treatyBinding pact between nations
neutrality · Lend-Lease · diplomacy · armistice · surrender · unconditional · occupation · collaboration
Facilities for mass detention
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- NaziGerman fascist party member
- gas chambersSealed execution spaces using poison
Anne Frank · persecution · deportation · ghetto · liberation · atrocities · survivors · Kristallnacht
1944 Normandy invasion
- NormandyNorthern French coastal region
- Pearl HarborHawaiian military port attacked 1941
- StalingradRenamed Soviet industrial city
- MidwayFair's entertainment corridor
Iwo Jima · Okinawa · Dunkirk · Kursk · Berlin · Guadalcanal · Anzio · Britain
Ground combat troops
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- tanksStorage vessels for liquids
- PanzerGerman armored fighting vehicle
- bombingAttack with explosives
U-boat · aircraft carrier · fighter planes · trenches · frontline · casualties · offensive · amphibious
Nazi Germany's totalitarian leader
- ChurchillManitoba's northern port
- RooseveltFamous presidential surname
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- MussoliniItalian fascist premier
Eisenhower · Patton · Montgomery · Rommel · MacArthur · Tojo · de Gaulle · Truman
Limiting distribution during scarcity
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- internmentWartime civilian imprisonment
- civiliansNon-military population
- evacuationRemoval from danger
blackout · war bonds · Rosie the Riveter · victory garden · draft · mobilization · factory · women workers
Below ground or countercultural
- partisansStaunch factional supporters
- MaquisMediterranean shrubland or partisans
- sabotageDeliberate disruption of operations
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
clandestine · guerrilla · cells · networks · hideouts · forgery · infiltration · Dutch resistance
Clandestine atomic weapons program
- HiroshimaFirst nuclear-struck city
- NagasakiSecond city bombed atomically
- nuclearOf atomic energy
- Fat ManImplosion-type nuclear device
Oppenheimer · Little Boy · Enola Gay · radiation · mushroom cloud · Trinity test · Los Alamos · uranium
Earth's vastest ocean
- EuropeanFrom that continent
- North AfricanFrom the continent's top
- Eastern FrontSoviet-German combat theater
- Western FrontFranco-Belgian combat zone
Mediterranean · Burma · Atlantic · island hopping · theater
Axis
Wartime fascist alliance
- AlliesWWII's victorious coalition
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- pactFormal agreement between parties
treaty · neutrality · Lend-Lease · diplomacy · armistice · surrender · unconditional · occupation · collaboration · Vichy
concentration camps
Facilities for mass detention
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- NaziGerman fascist party member
Anne Frank · gas chambers · persecution · deportation · ghetto · liberation · atrocities · survivors · Kristallnacht · Dachau
D-Day
1944 Normandy invasion
- NormandyNorthern French coastal region
- Pearl HarborHawaiian military port attacked 1941
- StalingradRenamed Soviet industrial city
Midway · Iwo Jima · Okinawa · Dunkirk · Kursk · Berlin · Guadalcanal · Anzio · Britain · Atlantic
infantry
Ground combat troops
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- tanksStorage vessels for liquids
- PanzerGerman armored fighting vehicle
bombing · U-boat · aircraft carrier · fighter planes · trenches · frontline · casualties · offensive · amphibious · kamikaze
Hitler
Nazi Germany's totalitarian leader
- ChurchillManitoba's northern port
- RooseveltFamous presidential surname
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
Mussolini · Eisenhower · Patton · Montgomery · Rommel · MacArthur · Tojo · de Gaulle · Truman · Yamamoto
rationing
Limiting distribution during scarcity
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- internmentWartime civilian imprisonment
- civiliansNon-military population
evacuation · blackout · war bonds · Rosie the Riveter · victory garden · draft · mobilization · factory · women workers · air raid
underground
Below ground or countercultural
- partisansStaunch factional supporters
- MaquisMediterranean shrubland or partisans
- sabotageDeliberate disruption of operations
espionage · clandestine · guerrilla · cells · networks · hideouts · forgery · infiltration · Dutch resistance · safe houses
Manhattan Project
Clandestine atomic weapons program
Oppenheimer · Fat Man · Little Boy · Enola Gay · radiation · mushroom cloud · Trinity test · Los Alamos · uranium · plutonium
Pacific
Earth's vastest ocean
- EuropeanFrom that continent
- North AfricanFrom the continent's top
- Eastern FrontSoviet-German combat theater
Western Front · Mediterranean · Burma · Atlantic · island hopping · theater
- 1940sD-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, VE Day, VJ Day
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- WWIID-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Hiroshima, Holocaust
- American WarsRevolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I
- US-Japan Relationsbilateral talks, defense pact, diplomatic ties, military alliance, security pact
- Belarus HistoryBelarus, Minsk, Soviet republic, Soviet era, Soviet rule
WWIIpeacetime
Absence of armed conflict
peace · Pax Americana · armistice · détente · interwar period
- WWII veteransSoldiers from the forties
- WWII bombingsAerial attacks during second global conflict
- WWII vetFormer 1940s combatant
- WWII bunkerFortified wartime shelter
- WWII resistanceClandestine opposition to occupation
- WWII MemorialMonument honoring second global conflict