When did the Great War (1914-1917) get renamed World War 1 ?

Anonymous2021-04-07T12:43:08Z

After 1945, historians found the term "First World War" appropriate because they saw 1914-1918 as the first of a particular type of international conflict - the world's first industrialized "total" war - which had been followed by a second industrialized world war of this kind - 1939-1945.

Anonymous2021-04-07T06:41:07Z

Probably circa 1546

Sir Caustic2021-04-06T19:09:59Z

1913. No-one's been able to find out how that happened, but it did. Most historians think it's got something to do with space-time swirly things.

Fried Potatoes2021-04-06T18:36:13Z

When they had the second one