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What year did they stop calling "The Great War" by that name and start calling it "World War One?"?
And by the same token, when did they decide that World War Two was actually a single "World War" and not a bunch of little wars such as, say, the Sino-Japanese War and the Franco-British-German-Polish War?
@ Paggz - thank you for your response. I'm interested, however, in which year the common man realized that World War Two was going to be a world war and not just a bunch of little wars that seemed only loosely related (was it when Italy invaded Ethiopia or when the Japanese started the Second Sino-Japanese war? Was it when Hitler invaded Poland? Was it the Fall of France? Was it when Hitler invaded the USSR? Or was it finally when the Americans were brought in after Pearl Harbor?) It seems to me that after this realization, they'd have renamed The Great War as World War One and started calling their new mess World War Two... but when was that?
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- PaggzLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
it became WWI when WWII happened, because WWII was bigger and had bigger implications
its called WWII as a single war because the same powers fought each other all over the world, and their actions affected future battles in different locations. (i.e. japan attacks pearl harbor, US retaliates by invading france)
