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Speculative fiction authors had been noting the concept of a Second World War in 19, when Milo Hastings wrote his dystopian novel, City of Endless Night. One week earlier, on September 4, the day after France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany, the Danish newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad used the term on its front page, saying 'The Second World War broke out yesterday at 11 a.m.' The first use for the actual war came in its issue of September 11, 1939.

In the same article, on page 32, the term 'World War II' was first used speculatively to describe the upcoming war. The term 'World War I' was coined by Time magazine on page 28b of its Jissue. Charles à Court Repington, as a title for his memoirs (published in 1920) he had noted his discussion on the matter with a Major Johnstone of Harvard University in his diary entry of September 10, 1918. In English, the term 'First World War' had been used by Lt-Col. will become the first world war in the full sense of the word', citing a wire service report in the Indianapolis Star on 20 September 1914. The term 'first world war' was first used in September 1914 by German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel, who claimed that 'there is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European War'. German writer August Wilhelm Otto Niemann used the term 'world war' in the title of his anti-British novel, Der Weltkrieg: Deutsche Träume ( The World War: German Dreams) in 1904, published in English as The Coming Conquest of England.

Anderson in 1889 described an episode in Teutonic mythology as a 'world war' (Swedish: världskrig), justifying this description by a line in an Old Norse epic poem, ' Völuspá: folcvig fyrst I heimi' ('The first great war in the world').

The Oxford English Dictionary cited the first known usage in the English language to a Scottish newspaper, The People's Journal, in 1848: 'A war among the great powers is now necessarily a world-war.' The term 'world war' is used by Karl Marx and his associate, Friedrich Engels, in a series of articles published around 1850 called The Class Struggles in France. Conventionally, the term is reserved for the two major international conflicts that occurred during the first half of the 20th century, World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), although some historians have also characterised other global conflicts as world wars, such as the Nine Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession, the Seven Years' War, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Cold War, and the War on Terror.

A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers.

Instal the last version for iphoneThe Second World War