World War (7981 bytes)
1: ...ting the majority of the world's countries. World wars usually span multiple [[continent]]s, and are ve...
3: ..., [[Italy]] and [[Japan]], besides the [[United States]] and [[Russia]].
5: ...]] ([[1792]]–[[1802]]) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] ([[1803]]–[[1815]]).
7: ...tbreak of World War II, after which the [[United Nations]] was formed.
9: ==Classification as a world war==

The World at War (3532 bytes)
1: ... War]], the events that led up to it, and those that followed in its wake. The series was produced by ...
3: ...ined secret, such as the code-breaking activities at [[Bletchley Park]].
5: ...ted for by industry professionals, ''The World at War'' was placed 19th.
7: The series was narrated by Sir [[Laurence Olivier]]. The score was writ...
11: ...Britain]] and [[Germany]], the experience of occupation in [[The Netherlands]], and the [[Nazi]]s' use...

World War II (36314 bytes)
1: ...lingrad.jpg|thumb|250px|German soldiers at the [[Battle of Stalingrad]]]]
2: ..., being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives.
4: ...l the [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|atomic bombing]] of [[Hiroshima]] and [[Nagasaki]] a...
6: ...ulminated in massive battles with millions of combatants in the first half of the [[1940s]].
8: ...ranean Sea]], and in the [[Pacific War|Pacific theatre]] in the [[Pacific]], in [[Oceania]] and across...

World War I (60269 bytes)
1: ...sschendaele]]. Battle aftermath. Remains of the Chateau Wood]]
2: ... the days of the [[Crusade]]s, all fell after the war.
4: ...technology]], and would involve non-combatants in war as never before.
6: ...d War as merely the first phase of a 30-year-long war spanning the period [[1914]]–[[1945]].
8: ...ld die on the homefront from food shortages, starvation, genocide, and being caught up in the fighting...

Causes of World War II (12701 bytes)
1: <i>Main Article: [[World War II]]</i>
3: ...er have a basic knowledge of World War II and of dates pertaining to it.
5: ==Underlying Causes of World War II==
6: ...ire]] was attractive to many Italians. In Japan, nationalism, in the sense of duty and honor, especial...
7: ... traditional militant [[attitude]] of both these nations <i>(see below)</i>.

Causes of World War I (10670 bytes)
1: ''Main article: [[World War I]]''
4: ...f [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] at [[Battle of Waterloo|Waterloo]]. Napoleon's rise to power was, in turn, a ...
6: == Napoleon Bonaparte and the Rise of Nationalist Sentiment ==
7: ...roken economy and society became the [[Napoleonic Wars]], a continent-wide struggle for power.
9: ...French gained from it. Following the [[Napoleonic Wars]], all of Europe was sharing these ideas.

World at War (1409 bytes)
1: ...ts of the [[Second World War]] see [[The World at War]]''
4: ...nits are groups of ships. Some of the items and features in the game include:
7: ... types of land units (HQ Arm Mech Inf Par Mar Stc AT Art AA)
8: *5 type of air units (Ftr LB FB Bmbr ATrn). Air units have to fly out of airbases to do a...
9: *6 type of naval units (CFlt HFlt LFlt Sub NATr NTrn)

World War IV (2297 bytes)
1: ...ar on Terrorism]] (World War III being the [[Cold War]]). However, it is not a widely used term by poli...
3: == Arguments over World War IV ==
4: ...rld War IV is a war against terrorism, but also a war for democracy and freedom against three distinct ...
7: ...Arab social nationalists (such as the former [[Ba'ath]]ists of [[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Iraq]])<br>
11: ...rom states to the hands of multi-national [[corporations]].

The Netherlands in World War II (12913 bytes)
1: ===Preamble to the War===
2: ... countries, suffered from the effects of the [[Great Depression]] after the [[Black Thursday|Stock mar...
4: ...iging Nederlands Fabrikaat'' (Dutch Product Association) tried to reverse the economic downfall with a...
6: ...nal Socialistic Movement (NSB), a nazistic organisation.
8: ...es were not established at the former Ministry of War (now: Ministry of Defense).

Literature of World War I (3388 bytes)
1: ...day by combatants and their relatives. After the war, many participants published their memoirs and di...
3: ...e only one still commercially available after the war) was the [[Wipers Times]].
5: ...shock]] and the huge social changes caused by the war.
7: ... of the [[20th century]] onwards, the First World War continued to be a popular subject for fiction, ma...
11: *[[Richard Aldington]]: ''[[Death of a Hero]]''

World civil war (4869 bytes)
1: ... international relationships between anti-globalization and anti-Western movements.
3: ...[Soviet Union]], a phenomenon that the [[United States]] opposed based on the [[domino theory]].
5: ... could find common ground with the [[anti-globalization movement]], possibly spreading the conflict ev...
8: ...ended to rally actions among diverse anti-globalization movements.
11: ...s that it will develop into a much larger conflagration involving most countries.

Maquis (World War II) (2930 bytes)
3: ...ually the term became a sort-of-a honorary term that meant armed resistance fighter.
5: ...rcors]] - took names after the area they were operating in. Their size varied from maybe ten men to th...
7: ...left-wing Spanish veterans of the [[Spanish Civil War]].
9: ... began to send its' own agents to France in cooperation with the SOE.
11: ...oup of 7000 maquisards was involved in a pitched battle with 22,000 Germans on June 20, 1944. Some Maq...

Tricycle (World War II) (1108 bytes)
1: ... the items on their list was information about [[Battle of Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor]].
3: ...he [[National Enquirer]], author [[Ian Fleming]] patterned [[James Bond]] 007 after him.
5: ...World War II and was detailed to trail the charismatic spy, who was eventually recruited to work as a ...
12: *[[World War II]]
13: *[[Inspirations for James Bond]]

History of the Second World War (11091 bytes)
1: ...ers not considered in great detail or in one case at all in the main series.
3: ...ore volumes than cover the particular part of the war effort desired to be studied. Hancock edited the ...
5: ... so joint and so interlinked that to try and separate out each service's contribution would have been ...
7: ...lso followed, leading to a somewhat detatched narrative style in some cases.
13: * ''Grand Strategy''

WCW World War 3 (1243 bytes)
1: ...ip Wrestling]]'s answer to [[World Wrestling Federation]]'s [[Royal Rumble]].
4: *The WW3 match is played out in three rings, each holding twen...
5: *All sixty men start the match at the same time.
7: The rules for the World War 3 match were the following:
8: ...ixty men are assigned a specific ring before the match begins, determined by random draw.

Participants in World War II (17822 bytes)
1: ...ected by any of the theatres or events of [[World War II]].
5: ...the [[Soviet Union]] (in June) and the [[United States]] (in December).
9: ...ces, and also little in the way of cooperative strategic planning between the major Axis powers.
11: ... side of the Axis, although for the most part the war effort was directed and powered by Germany and Ja...
13: ...ent states of the victorious Allies as the [[Cold War]] came about.

Participants in World War I (1000 bytes)
3: ...[Greece]], [[Russian Empire]], and the [[United States of America]] against [[Bulgaria]], the [[Ottoma...
5: ...was fought in [[China]], the [[Pacific Ocean]], [[Atlantic Ocean]], [[Africa]], [[Arabia]] and [[Euro...
7: ...sh Empire'' was the common term for Great Britain at this time. The term refers to the colonies it con...
9: [[Category:World War I]]

World War III (18775 bytes)
1: ...''' is sometimes also used to describe the [[Cold War]] of the 20th Century.''
3: ...c bomb]]ing of [[Nagasaki]] at the end of [[World War II]].]]
5: ...as presumed to result in the [[extinction|extermination]] or technological impoverishment of [[human]]...
7: ...chnological singularity]], and catastrophic [[climate change]] as an "[[extinction event|extinction-le...
10: When asked what kind of weapons World War III would be fought with, [[Albert Einstein]] rep...

World War I casualties (2017 bytes)
1: ...a summary of deaths by nationality during [[World War I]].
4: ...t of the total forces mobilized by that country that were killed in action.
27: * [[United States]]: 126,000 (2.89%)
28: Total Allied soldiers killed: approximately 5.5 million
35: Total Central Powers soldiers killed: approximately 3.4 million.

World War I reparations (1047 bytes)
1: ...ng [[World War I]], under Article 231 of the [[Treaty of Versailles]].
3: ...that many economists deemed to be excessive. Reparations came in a variety of forms, including coal, s...
5: ...ts of free coal flooding the market undercut the native coal industry. This also caused massive econom...
7: :''See also :'' [[Aftermath of World War I]]

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