After the second world war the great violins gravitated towards rich Americans who bought up what was left at fire-sale prices.

ECONOMIST: The highly strung market for violins

After the Great Depression and the Second World War the U.S. helped create and nurture the institutions that enabled war-torn Europe and Japan to make rapid recoveries.

FORBES: Japan and Europe Are Killing Themselves

Doing something effective and substantive, such as creating a modernized version of the gold-based Bretton Woods international monetary system--which lasted from the end of the Second World War until the early 1970s and gave us an era of great, noninflationary economic growth--will not even be broached.

FORBES: Weak Dollar = Weak Recovery

It professes to adhere to the two-major-theater-war standard while proposing for the second contingency something a great deal less.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | The Measure of a Superpower: A Two Major Regional Contingency Military for the 21st Century

It was service in the German army, not the Austrian, that prepared him for his calling, to turn the Great War into the first world war by dint of starting a second.

ECONOMIST: 20th-century history

The great decline in membership came after the second world war.

ECONOMIST: Endangered species

Politically, the Great Depression made possible the rise of Nazism and the Second World War.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Not a great movie, but one of the great, unknown (in this country) stories of the Second World War.

NEWYORKER: John Rabe

There is overwhelming agreement among economists that the Second World War was responsible for bringing about a decisive end to the Great Depression.

FORBES: Can We Get China To Bankroll The Next World War?

The second world war (in which Mr Stevens served in the air force) ended America's Great Depression, and ended the need to look far and wide for work.

ECONOMIST: Irving Stevens