Timeline for When was the term for WW2 first used and was it more popular in, say, US before Europe?
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| Aug 22, 2017 at 5:01 | comment | added | Jeff | @TomAu: He was not the only one, right? A French guy thought the same thing about the Treaty. But that does not address terminology. I would guess, in general, that the side that starts a war tries to minimize it. No one in Germany would see value in saying, "Look, we started another World War!" As an aside, and maybe another separate question, is how Germany's role in WW2 retroactively affected the perception of WWI. | |
| Aug 22, 2017 at 2:52 | comment | added | Tom Au | @Jeff: A German officer, Lt. Col. Hermann Kriebel, told the Allies at Versailles in 1919, "See you again in 20 years." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Kriebel He was "right on the money." | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 0:39 | comment | added | Jeff | @Bregalad: I would consider the two terms equivalent -- the important words being "war, "world", "second" -- Russia calling it the Great Patriotic War reflects how different their involvement in it was from the ww1. | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 6:51 | comment | added | Bregalad | As far as I am aware, only american names it "World War 2" as if it was a film sequel. In French and in German we call it the equivalent of "the second world war". | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 5:00 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | @Jeff: I suspect just the opposite - that it would have been immediately accepted in Germany as tacit acceptance of their right to a restoration of territory stripped under the Versailles Treaty - whether by force or dimplomacy. | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 4:58 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | @UlfTennfors: Read the fourth paragraph above - it took less than two weeks for Time magazine to coin the starting war as World War II. | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 4:56 | comment | added | Ulf Tennfors | But did they call the war "World War 2" the day Germany invaded Poland, like "now the second world war started." I suppose it took a while before they realised it was a world war. | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 3:54 | comment | added | user13123 | Some interesting ngrams for world war i and world war i,world war ii,first world war,second world war | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 2:33 | history | edited | Pieter Geerkens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 16, 2017 at 2:33 | comment | added | Jeff | Interesting about 1919. I wonder then if Germany really disliked the term arguing that there was in fact no such war, only Germany attempting to regain territory or something. | |
| Aug 16, 2017 at 2:30 | history | edited | Pieter Geerkens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 16, 2017 at 2:25 | history | answered | Pieter Geerkens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |