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WWII

WWII

abbreviation for

  1. World War Two
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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It's not the first time, and I'm not talking about the Palmer raids in WWI or the Japanese Internment in WWII, both of which were shameful episodes in which the president used this obscure wartime power to detain, imprison and deport people based solely on their ancestry or national origin under the suspicion that they might commit sabotage or espionage.

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The Pentagon websites recognizing the contributions of racial minorities such as the Tuskegee Airmen, the Navajo Code talkers and baseball legend Jackie Robinson, as well as all the women pilots going all the way back to WWII, were taken down with urls that distinctly said "DEI."

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By 1946, as Hollywood and the rest of the country emerged from WWII, there simply weren’t enough qualifying feature documentaries to even run the category.

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When Jews were kidnapped for the Holocaust during WWII, it was common for their Christian neighbors to ransack their homes, stealing everything and enriching themselves.

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Despite our sustained fascination with WWII, the Women’s Army Corps remain an infuriatingly overlooked group in film and television.

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