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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › SoldierSoldier - Wikipedia

    With certain exceptions, service as a soldier, especially in the infantry, had generally been restricted to males throughout world history. By World War II, women were actively deployed in Allied forces in different ways.

  2. www.researchingww2.co.uk › ww2-abbreviations-acronymsWW2 Abbreviations and Acronyms

    When you research a soldier who served in either the British or Indian Army during the Second World War you’ll be confronted by a wide range of military jargon. This is often in the form of abbreviations and acronyms and can make reading military documents very difficult.

  3. The Schutzstaffel (German: [ˈʃʊtsˌʃtafl̩] ⓘ; lit. 'Protection Squadron'; SS; also stylised with Armanen runes as ᛋᛋ) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

  4. Slang term used by German soldiers during World Wars I and II for a military-issue mixture of dried vegetables. Drang nach Osten – "Push to the East", Germany's ambitions for territorial expansion into Eastern Europe.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › World_warWorld war - Wikipedia

    Conventionally, the term is reserved for two major international conflicts that occurred during the first half of the 20th century, World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), although some historians have also characterised other global conflicts as world wars, such as the Nine Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession, the ...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › World_War_IIWorld War II - Wikipedia

    World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, resulting in 70 to 85 million fatalities, more than half of which were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust of European Jews, and by massacres, starvation, and disease.

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  8. Definitions of the important terms you need to know about in order to understand World War II (1939–1945), including Allied Powers, Anschluss, Appeasement, Axis Powers, Battle of Britain, Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of El-Alamein, Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Midway, Battle of Okinawa, Battle of Stalingrad ...