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| | World War II - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | World War II was a global conflict that started on 7 July 1937, in Asia and 1 September 1939,in Europe and lasted until 1945, involving themajority of the world's countries and every inhabited continent. |
 | | While the war stimulated many technologies: radio development accelerated, and radar developed; it retarded others,most notably popular television which the BBC had been developing, but which was shelved, as it also was in Germany and the United States, until the end of thewar. |
 | | World War II saw the birth of the reliable semi-automaticrifle and, more importantly, that of the first real assault rifles.The Germans essentially created and pioneered the idea of an "assault rifle" or sturmgewehr, coining the name for the species in the process. |
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