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  2. World War II - Wikipedia

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    World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all the world's countries—including all the great powers—participated, with many investing all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between military and ...

  3. Languages of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia

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    Languages of Yugoslavia are all languages spoken in former Yugoslavia.They are mainly Indo-European languages and dialects, namely dominant South Slavic varieties (Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovene) as well as Albanian, Aromanian, Bulgarian, Czech, German, Italian, Venetian, Balkan Romani, Romanian, Pannonian Rusyn, Slovak and Ukrainian languages.

  4. Code talker - Wikipedia

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    Mohawk language code talkers were used during World War II by the United States Army in the Pacific theater. Levi Oakes, a Mohawk code talker born in Canada, was deployed to protect messages sent by Allied Forces using Kanien'kéha, a Mohawk sub-set language. Oakes died in May 2019; he was the last of the Mohawk code talkers. [35]

  5. World war - Wikipedia

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    A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. [1] 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 ...

  6. Treaty of Versailles - Wikipedia

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    The government of Adolf Hitler declared all further payments cancelled in 1933, and no further reparations payments were made until after the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War. Germany finally paid off its debts under the Versailles treaty, which had been reduced by 50% at the 1953 London Debt Conference, in 2010.

  7. Declarations of war during World War II - Wikipedia

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    A declaration of war is a formal act by which one nation goes to war against another. The declaration is usually the act of delivering a performative speech or the presentation of a signed document by an authorized party of a national government in order to create a state of war between two or more sovereign states.

  8. Yiddish - Wikipedia

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    Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish (, or , yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ (j)ɪdɪʃ], lit.'Jewish'; , historically also Yidish-Taytsh, lit.'Judeo-German') 10 is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.

  9. List of official languages - Wikipedia

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    National language in Switzerland (with German, French, and Italian) [41] ... Meitei (officially known as Manipuri): India (with 21 other official languages)