Does World War 2 have any other famous names ?

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Does World War 2 have any other famous names ?

2007-03-19 00:19:37 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History

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Великая Отечественная война
pronounced
Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna
or translated into English
Great Patriotic War

What the Russians and the former Soviet Republics call WWII.

2007-03-19 01:05:30 · answer #1 · answered by ami.kawabata 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋

The only other name I can think of is the Great Patriotic War, used in the (former) USSR.

2007-03-19 21:10:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

No, but it might interest you to know that even AFTER WW2, inhabitants of Belgium and France where WW1 was fought still refer to WW1 as 'The Great War' or 'The Big War'.

2007-03-19 09:13:27 · answer #3 · answered by mgerben 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋

WWII
WW2

2007-03-19 07:26:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋