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World War 1 English

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World War 1

(= World War I) a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918

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Simple sentences

May there never be another world war!
My grandfather was killed in World War II.
When did World War II break out?

Movie subtitles

I would at least like a world without war.
That's why. I would at least like a world without war. A place where we won't lose dear ones.

News and current affairs

NEW YORK - On May 8, 1945, when World War II in Europe officially ended, much of the world lay in ruins.
This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs.
In 1989, it looked as if the dark legacy of World War II, the enslavement of Eastern Europe, was finally over.
Neoliberalism filled the vacuum, creating vast wealth for some people, but at the expense of the ideal of equality that had emerged from World War II.
This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs. But in some ways the 1945 consensus, in the West, was strengthened by Cold War politics.

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