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World war

A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. Conventionally, the term is reserved for the two major international conflicts that occurred during the first half of the 20th century: World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). Some historians have also characterized other global conflicts as…

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Other global conflicts

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World war

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related to Other global conflicts · 52
World war → Africa, American Revolutionary War, Anglo-Dutch Wars, As, Asia, Austrian Succession, British, British Empire, Chase-Dunn, Coalition Wars, Dutch, Dutch-Spanish, England, Europe, France, French Empire, French Revolutionary Wars, General Wars, Global French Wars, Global German Wars
related to Second World War · 37
World war → Adolf Hitler, Allied, Asia, Asians, Axis, Big Four, Canada, China, Eastern Europe, Empire, European, Germans, Hiroshima, Holocaust, It, Italy, Japan, Japanese, Jews, Kingdom
related to Etymology · 34
World war → Anderson, August Wilhelm Otto Niemann, British, Court Repington, Der Weltkrieg, Deutsche Träume, England, English, Ernst Haeckel, European War, First World War, France, Friedrich Engels, German, German Dreams, Harvard University, In English, Indianapolis Star, Karl Marx, Lieutenant Colonel Charles
related to Potential third world war · 20
World war → Albert Einstein, Alexandre, Cold War, Eliot Cohen, First, Fourth World War, Hiroshima, It, James Woolsey, Marenches, Nagasaki, Scenarios, Second World War, Second World Wars, Since, Subcomandante Marcos, Third World War, Various, World War III, World War IV
related to First World War · 19
World war → Armenian, Austro-Hungarian Empires, British, Chemical, Columbian, First World War, French Empires, German, Hague Conventions, In, It, Italian, Russian, Second Industrial Revolution, That, The, The First World War, The Ottoman Empire, War
related to Bibliography · 11
World war → Dorling Kindersley, Epstein, Fred, ISBN, Joseph, OCLC, Quotations, Shapiro, The Yale Book, Willmott, Yale University Press
related to External links · 3
World war → Fourth World War, Jean Baudrillard, This
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World war → international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers

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World waris ainternational conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers0.90text
the United Nations were established to collectivize international affairsinstance ofand diplomatic system was created in the aftermath of the war.Institutions0.80text
with the explicit goal of preventing another outbreak of general warinstance ofand diplomatic system was created in the aftermath of the war.Institutions0.80text
World warrelated to BibliographyShapiro0.60section
World warrelated to BibliographyFred0.60section
World warrelated to BibliographyEpstein0.60section
World warrelated to BibliographyJoseph0.60section
World warrelated to BibliographyThe Yale Book0.60section
World warrelated to BibliographyQuotations0.60section
World warrelated to BibliographyYale University Press0.60section
World warrelated to BibliographyISBN0.60section
World warrelated to BibliographyWillmott0.60section

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