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virphen wrote:Why isn't WW II considered to have started in 1931? Why aren't WW I and WW II considered to be essentially the same war just with a 20 year armistice?
Rome Existed wrote:I already said in the OP guys what a world war is.
Why are other ealier wars not counted as world wars? Because the term was only invented a few years prior to the out break of the First World War, that's why.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_warA world war is a war affecting the majority of the world's most powerful and populous nations. World wars span multiple countries on multiple continents, with battles fought in multiple theaters, and last for multiple years.
a war engaged in by all or most of the principal nations of the world; especially capitalized both Ws : either of two such wars of the first half of the 20th century
If through fear of entangling alliances the United States should return the Philippines to Spain, Mr. Page asserted that the predatory nations would swoop down upon them and a world war would result. ["New York Times," Dec. 16, 1898]
Rome Existed wrote:
The invasion of Poland involved the major nations of Germany, UK, France and then the USSR.
The invasion of Manchuria involved the major nation of Japan and that's it.
Which also puts it on a completely different level in terms of number and sizes of battles, miles of combat lines/front, miles of supply lines in the "theater", amounts of resources used, people fighting...CdesignProponentsist wrote:The Korean war combat theater was isolated to just Korea.
Berthold wrote:Huh? Austria was occupied territory before 1955, and didn't have an army. Was that, rather, Australia?
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