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second world

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  1. Second Worldnoun

    Those countries aligned with the East during the Cold War, particularly in contrast to those aligned with the West (First World).

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  1. Second World

    The Second World is a term originating during the Cold War for the industrial socialist states that were under the influence of the Soviet Union. In the first two decades following World War II, 19 communist states emerged; all of these were at least originally within the Soviet sphere of influence, though some (notably Yugoslavia and China) broke with Moscow and developed their own path of socialism while retaining Communist governments. Most communist states remained part of this bloc until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991; afterwards, only five communist states remained: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. Along with "First World" and "Third World", the term was used to divide the states of Earth into three broad categories.

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  1. Second World

    The Second World refers to the former socialist, industrial states, the territory and the influence of the Soviet Union. Following World War II, there were nineteen communist states, and after the fall of the Soviet Union, only five socialist states remained: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. Along with "First World" and "Third World", the term was used to divide the nations of Earth into three broad categories. In other words, the concept of "Second World" was a construct of the Cold War and the term has largely fallen out of use since the revolutions of 1989, though it is still used to describe countries that are in between poverty and prosperity, many of which are socialist and former socialist states today. Subsequently, the actual meaning of the terms "First World" and "Third World" changed from being based on political ideology to an economic definition. This might also cause semantic variation of the term between ascribing a region's political entities and its people.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of second world in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of second world in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of second world in a Sentence

  1. Anders Frantzen:

    I told myself I really wanted to come back here and take a proper look. It looks like something you haven't seen since the Second World War. It's very bad, it's difficult to put a face, an image to the numbers we hear about. So you see these pictures (and) it sort of puts things in a new perspective.

  2. James Holland:

    By the end of the Second World War, you saw increasing knowledge of the side effects of these drugs, what you dont see is what to do with people once they become hooked thats something that had to be learned the hard way in the years that followed.

  3. Stephen Ambrose, D-Day, page 577:

    During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

  4. Andrei Soldatov:

    There are no prospects. I’m an adult, and I didn’t exactly have all my life figured out, but all in all I understood what would happen next. Now nobody understands anything. People don’t even understand what will happen to them tomorrow. the things we held dear, like the memory of the Second World War, for instance, became completely compromised.

  5. Anna Soubry:

    If that means I can't go home at the weekend because of death threats, if that means I have get a taxi in order to do a 10-minute walk, if that means I have to be frightened for my wellbeing... this is the biggest decision that this country has made since the Second World War and we come to this place to represent our constituents and do the right thing about our country.

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