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<p><ins class="ice-ins ice-cts-1" data-changedata="" data-cid="2" data-last-change-time="1524859854237" data-time="1524859854237" data-userid="162" data-username="Author">The&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary" title="Oxford English Dictionary">Oxford English Dictionary</a></i>&nbsp;cited the first known usage in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English language</a>&nbsp;to a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scottish</a>&nbsp;newspaper: the&nbsp;<i>People&#39;s Journal</i>&nbsp;in 1848: &quot;A war among the great powers is now necessarily a world-war.&quot; The term &quot;world war&quot; had been used in 1850 by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a>&nbsp;and his associate,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Friedrich Engels</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<i>The Class Struggles in France</i>.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_B._Anderson" title="Rasmus B. Anderson">Rasmus B. Anderson</a>&nbsp;in 1889 described an episode in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_mythology" title="Teutonic mythology">Teutonic mythology</a>&nbsp;as a &ldquo;world war&rdquo; (Swedish:&nbsp;<i>v&auml;rldskrig</i>), justifying this description by a line in an&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a>&nbsp;epic poem, &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lusp%C3%A1" title="Völuspá">V&ouml;lusp&aacute;</a>: folcvig fyrst i heimi&quot; (&quot;The first great war in the world&quot;.)<sup id="cite_ref-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;German writer August Wilhelm Otto Niemann had used the term &quot;world war&quot; in the title of his anti-British novel,&nbsp;<i>Der Weltkrieg: Deutsche Tr&auml;ume</i>&nbsp;(<i>The World War: German Dreams</i>) in 1904, published in English as&nbsp;<i>The Coming Conquest of England</i>.</ins></p>

<p><ins class="ice-ins ice-cts-1" data-changedata="" data-cid="2" data-last-change-time="1524859854237" data-time="1524859854237" data-userid="162" data-username="Author">In English, the term &quot;First World War&quot; had been used by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_%C3%A0_Court_Repington" title="Charles à Court Repington">Charles &agrave; Court Repington</a>, as a title for his memoirs (published in 1920); he had noted his discussion on the matter with a Major Johnstone of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>&nbsp;in his diary entry of September 10, 1918.<sup id="cite_ref-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></ins></p>

<p><ins class="ice-ins ice-cts-1" data-changedata="" data-cid="2" data-last-change-time="1524859854237" data-time="1524859854237" data-userid="162" data-username="Author">The term &quot;World War I&quot; was coined by&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i>&nbsp;magazine in its issue of June 12, 1938. In the same article, the term &quot;World War II&quot; was first used speculatively to describe the upcoming war. The first use for the actual war came in its issue of September 11, 1939.<sup id="cite_ref-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;One week earlier, on September 4, the day after France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany, the Danish newspaper&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristeligt_Dagblad" title="Kristeligt Dagblad">Kristeligt Dagblad</a></i>used the term on its front page, saying &quot;The Second World War broke out yesterday at 11 a.m.&quot;<sup id="cite_ref-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup></ins></p>

<p><ins class="ice-ins ice-cts-1" data-changedata="" data-cid="2" data-last-change-time="1524859854237" data-time="1524859854237" data-userid="162" data-username="Author"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction">Speculative fiction</a>&nbsp;authors had been noting the concept of a Second World War in 1919 and 1920, when&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Hastings" title="Milo Hastings">Milo Hastings</a>&nbsp;wrote his&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopian" title="Dystopian">dystopian</a>&nbsp;novel,&nbsp;<i>City of Endless Night</i>. Other languages have also adopted the &quot;world war&quot; terminology, for example; in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: &quot;world war&quot; is translated as&nbsp;<i>guerre mondiale</i>, in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>:&nbsp;<i>Weltkrieg</i>&nbsp;(which, prior to the war, had been used in the more abstract meaning of a global conflict), in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>:&nbsp;<i>guerra mondiale</i>, in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>:&nbsp;<i>guerra mundial</i>, in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language" title="Danish language">Danish</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language" title="Norwegian language">Norwegian</a>:&nbsp;<i>verdenskrig</i>, and in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>:&nbsp;<i>мировая война</i>&nbsp;(<i>mirovaya voyna</i>.)</ins></p>

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