Just chanced on this topic. This site may interest some of you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war#Classification_as_a_world_war
Its easy to refer to the two most famous conflicts as world wars, but if you consider the (debatable) criteria - and the criteria some of you have put forward, then they don't actually qualify as 'world wars' for a good part of their duration.
Just a thought.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war#Classification_as_a_world_war
Its easy to refer to the two most famous conflicts as world wars, but if you consider the (debatable) criteria - and the criteria some of you have put forward, then they don't actually qualify as 'world wars' for a good part of their duration.
Just a thought.