World War (7981 bytes)
1: ...e [[continent]]s, and are very bloody and destructive.
3: ...ved some degree of participation from most of the world's existing countries, especially through the [[co...
5: ...]] ([[1792]]–[[1802]]) and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] ([[1803]]–[[1815]]).
7: ...d War I, and collapsed with the outbreak of World War II, after which the [[United Nations]] was formed...
9: ==Classification as a world war==

The World at War (3532 bytes)
1: ...on]] [[documentary]] series on the [[Second World War]], the events that led up to it, and those that f...
3: ...war remained 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 written by [[Wilfrid Josephs]...
11: ... a historian to list fifteen key campaigns of the war and devoted one episode to each. The remaining el...

World War II (36314 bytes)
2: ... major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives.
4: ...1931]] Japanese incursion into [[Manchuria]]. The war ended in Europe with the surrender of Nazi German...
6: ...owly drew in more countries and culminated in massive battles with millions of combatants in the first...
8: ...s the [[Mediterranean Sea]], and in the [[Pacific War|Pacific theatre]] in the [[Pacific]], in [[Oceani...
10: ...rcent of the [[World population|population of the world]].

World War I (60269 bytes)
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: World War I became infamous for [[trench warfare]], where huge numbers of troops were confined...
12: ''See: [[Causes of World War I]]''

Causes of World War II (12701 bytes)
1: <i>Main Article: [[World War II]]</i>
3: ...d that the reader have a basic knowledge of World War II and of dates pertaining to it.
5: ==Underlying Causes of World War II==
6: ...idea of restoring the [[Roman Empire]] was attractive to many Italians. In Japan, nationalism, in the ...
8: ...many members of these nations to support those individuals and political parties who wished to gain te...

Causes of World War I (10670 bytes)
1: ''Main article: [[World War I]]''
4: ...ld War I was triggered by this assassination, the war's origins lie much farther back, in the complex w...
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.
12: ..., Europe would be thrown into another continental war, as Napoleon and French Nationalism had shown. Me...

World at War (1409 bytes)
1: ...ts of the [[Second World War]] see [[The World at War]]''
4: ...s, turns being 2 months, land units being mostly divisions, air units are squadrons and naval units ar...
13: *World market to buy and sell resources
21: [[Category:Wargames]]

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 ...
11: ...neutral nations were casualties. The Fourth World War refers to economic [[neo-liberalism]], that wishe...
12: This usage of The Fourth World War was borrowed by filmmakers in 2004, for a documen...

The Netherlands in World War II (12913 bytes)
1: ===Preamble to the War===
2: ...ing the period between the first and second World Wars the [[Netherlands]], like other countries, suffe...
8: ...es were not established at the former Ministry of War (now: Ministry of Defense).
10: ===The outbreak of the war===
11: ...self neutral once again as it had been in [[World War I]]. However, on [[May 10]], [[1940]] Germany inv...

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...
12: ...ntures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War]]''

World civil war (4869 bytes)
1: ...re]], [[Third World]] conflicts during the [[Cold War]], and modern international relationships between...
3: ...', Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. associated world civil war with the promotion of numerous [[Marxism|Marxist]...
5: ...ast]]. The [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] were a pivotal moment in spreading this conflict to a truly ...
8: ...at bin Laden had intended to rally actions among diverse anti-globalization movements.
11: ...e. They appear to work in tandem. The third World War is unlikely to be a conflict between the US and A...

Maquis (World War II) (2930 bytes)
7: ...left-wing Spanish veterans of the [[Spanish Civil War]].
9: ...joined the Maquis. The [[Special Operations Executive]] (SOE) helped with supplies and [[Special Air S...
13: The Allied offensive was slowed and the Germans were able to countera...
22: The use of the name originates from a short-lived democracy movement on [[Corsica]] (see [[Maquis...
24: [[Category:World War II resistance movements]]

Tricycle (World War II) (1108 bytes)
5: ...worked in British naval intelligence during World War II and was detailed to trail the charismatic spy,...
12: *[[World War II]]

History of the Second World War (11091 bytes)
1: ...ering various aspects of the civilian part of the war effort, the foreign policy series, the intelligen...
3: ...effort desired to be studied. Hancock edited the civil series and Butler the military. The first volum...
5: ...tre of operations point of view rather than an individual service point of view. This decision was tak...
7: ...o followed, leading to a somewhat detatched narrative style in some cases.
18: ** ''Volume IV'', Michael Howard, 1970

WCW World War 3 (1243 bytes)
1: ...he [[World Championship Wrestling]]'s answer to [[World Wrestling Federation]]'s [[Royal Rumble]].
7: The rules for the World War 3 match were the following:
14: ...WWF's Royal Rumble, where the winner of the World War 3 match would be one of the two wrestlers in the ...

Participants in World War II (17822 bytes)
1: ...ected by any of the theatres or events of [[World War II]].
5: ...by the [[United Kingdom]] and, during the [[Phony War]], [[France]], was in 1941 enforced by the [[Sovi...
9: ... resources, 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: [[World War I]], also called the Great War, was fought by [[China]], [[Japan]], [[Brazil]], ...
5: The war was fought in [[China]], the [[Pacific Ocean]], [...
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: ...ter half of the [[20th century]], when the [[Cold War]] saw the [[capitalism|capitalist]] [[United Stat...
7: Such a globally destructive war with such pervasive weapons ranks with [[asteroid]] impact, a hostil...
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]].
37: == Civilians killed ==
49: Total civilians killed: approximately 6.5 million
51: ...be counted. If so, 25 million to 40 million more civilians should be added to the WWI death toll.
54: [[World War II casualties]]

World War I reparations (1047 bytes)
1: ...orced to make following its defeat during [[World War I]], under Article 231 of the [[Treaty of Versail...
3: ...s), a sum that many economists deemed to be excessive. Reparations came in a variety of forms, includi...
5: ...ut the native coal industry. This also caused massive economic hardship, which was probably the princi...
7: :''See also :'' [[Aftermath of World War I]]

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