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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A war fought from 1939 to 1945, in which Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and other allies defeated Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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- proper noun The war from 1939 to 1945 of the
Allied forces , includingUnited Kingdom ,Soviet Union , theUnited States ,France , andChina against theAxis Powers , includingGermany ,Italy , andJapan .
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- noun 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
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By the end of World War II, the future vice president was 3 years old, and the Bidens were "living comfortably in a nice house in the Boston suburbs," he wrote in his book.
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