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Why was First World War, called a “World War?
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Why was First World War, called a “World War?

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They call it the World War because 1914-1918 was the first of a particular type of international conflict the world's first industrialised "total" war - which had been followed by a second industrialised world war of this kind - 1939-1945.
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