English example sentences with "WWII"

He was a general in WWII.
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You're mistaken. With all due respect, Your Holiness is mistaken. Christ didn't come here with Columbus. It was the Antichrist who came. The indigenous holocaust was worse than the Holocaust of WWII, not even the pope can deny that.
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Before WWII, the border between Finland and the USSR was near Leningrad.
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The Russian T-34 tank won WWII.
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The Japanese didn't lose WWII. They merely failed to win.
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Little-remembered now is that Grand Central Terminal was the target of a Nazi plot during WWII: Two German agents were dispatched to sabotage the giant rotary convertors in a deep subbasement that supplied electrical current for the railways.
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References to what we now call BDSM practices can be found throughout the history of literature, but the first modern organized community is believed to have been the post-WWII gay leather scene.
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The perception of extraterrestrials as gods hinges on human psychology and cultural context. Imagine a scenario: a sleek, shimmering craft descends, and beings emerge who can heal diseases with a touch, manipulate gravity, or communicate telepathically. To a medieval peasant—or even a modern person unfamiliar with advanced tech—this might scream "divine intervention." Anthropologically, we see this pattern in cargo cults of the Pacific, where isolated tribes revered WWII airmen as gods because their planes and goods defied explanation.
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