What would a smaller WWII be called?

PoeFacedKilla

PoeFacedKilla

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Beedok said:
The Seven Years War and Napoleonic Wars had Indian nations acting fully independent as allies of the Europeans. So with that logic then we might skip WWI, but the others are acceptable. Of course WWI had the Japanese invading German territories and both Japan and China were involved in the peace talks were they not?
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by these standards you could very well consider just about every war since the Dutch Revolt a "World War" or a war fought on at least 4 continents. And since the dutch, french, spanish, and anglo-brits all had overseas dependencies on at least 2 non-Europe continents then the world wars should really be numbered something like this.

Dutch Revolt - WWI
War of Spanish Succession - WWII
7 Years' War/French and Indian Wars - WWIII
French Revolutionary Wars* - WWIV
The Great War - WWV
The Second Great War WWVI

But then World War Two was the only real war that involved a truly belligerent non-european power. In my view Japan started WWII in 1933, and the rise of the National Socialists in the same year.

*After Trafalgar the war was pretty much confined to Europe, unless you want to consider the US a Imperial Japanese style ally of France; which I don't.
 

zoomar

The European War. That is what most people called it until the US and Japan became involved anyway. Names might vary in Europe depending on who won, but for most of the rest of the world, "European War" is by far the most logical term (even if combat spilled over to north africa)
 

Kevin C. Smith

An uncle of mine, visiting Britain in the 50's, said that when the war came up in discussion, people referred to it as "The Late Unpleasantness". That'd be a cool name for a war, I think.
 

euromellows

In my timeline I called it the Autumn War. However the war ended fairly quickly with the Wehrmacht stepping in to remove the Nazi's after a rapid collapse in the west from the French Saar Offensive.
 

Codae

Kevin C. Smith said:

OK, with that out of the way, we didn't even have a WWI until WWII came along and we needed to start numbering them. WWI was most commonly referred to otherwise as either the Great War or the European War.
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"The World War" was also used (for instance, in Wells's The Shape of Things to Come).
 

HARRY

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Originally Posted by Rstone4
The War of Hitler's Mustache

I like this!
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Neville Chamberlain British Prime Minister 1939
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Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski Polish Prime Minister 1939
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Albert Lebrun french president 1939

and of cause we are all familiar with the facial hair of Hitler & Stalin, bearing in mind how few leaders have had moustaches since WWII surely the history channel will have a documentary on how it was all about the MO's soon.
 

cpip

HARRY said:
...bearing in mind how few leaders have had moustaches since WWII surely the history channel will have a documentary on how it was all about the MO's soon.
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Knowing the History Channel these days, it'll probably tell us the mustaches were ALIENS.
 
ScrewySqrl

ScrewySqrl

Masky said:
How you mentioned that it was called the Great War before WWII happened... maybe it could be called the "Lesser European War", with WWI as the "Greater European War"?
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One thing to remember.

"The Great War" usurped the title from the 1793-1815 series of conflicts.
 

Yossarian

Hollis Hurlbut said:
Perhaps "the Lightning War", a simple calque of the German Blitzkrieg. Or maybe "the Hitlerian Wars", if the conflicts are analysed as a series of separate wars in which Germany is the only common factor.
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"The Hitlerian Wars" is an interesting idea. I was thinking about the general naming scheme for wars beyond America's "The *country* War" and the Napoleonic Wars do seem like the closest analogue to WWII. Or perhaps the World Wars are lumped together as "The German Wars."
 

MattII

SO, what, does Japan suddenly back down on its territorial ambitions in the Far East? Remember, the final straw for the embargo was Japan's invasion of FIC, so unless the British and the European governments-in-exile are total cowards and bow to Japan's demands to continue selling them fuel (which they're going to start having trouble paying for is some of the sources I've read are right), the Pacific War is coming anyway.
 

AlexAerox

MattII said:
SO, what, does Japan suddenly back down on its territorial ambitions in the Far East? Remember, the final straw for the embargo was Japan's invasion of FIC, so unless the British and the European governments-in-exile are total cowards and bow to Japan's demands to continue selling them fuel (which they're going to start having trouble paying for is some of the sources I've read are right), the Pacific War is coming anyway.
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If it doesn't begin until after the end of "World War II" then it would be considered a completely separate war, especially if Germany doesn't get involved.
 

MattII

AlexAerox said:
If it doesn't begin until after the end of "World War II" then it would be considered a completely separate war, especially if Germany doesn't get involved.
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Germany not getting involved requires Hitler to be sane, never something you want to bet on (remember, he declared was on the US on December 11, while he was still at war with Russia and Britain too).
 
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