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Gotta finish WW Zero first --- started around 700 AD, and still going.
loseyourname said:It does seem a little disingenuous, or at least Eurocentric, to call WWI a 'world' war, but at least WWII took place in both hemispheres and on three continents (four if you count Pearl Harbor and Midway as part of North America). (snip)
loseyourname said:It does seem a little disingenuous, or at least Eurocentric, to call WWI a 'world' war,...
russ_watters said:A world war has major world powers on both sides of the fight.
This map is not clear. Which colours denote the involved countries ? If hope it's not the orange ones because that would be incomplete. Here is a better list : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_IDimitri Terryn said:Countries involved in WWI
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4f/WWI-re.png/800px-WWI-re.png
Fighting took place all over the European Empires, including Africa, Asia en Oceania. There was even the threat of Mexico joining the war as a German ally, which was one of the reasons that Wilson asked congress to declare war (as was still done it those times )
That's around the time that we first dropped our bombs on Baghdad... :uhh:Integral said:History may well say that it started March 19, 2003.
Integral said:Yep, The Iraq war is far from over and may well get MUCH worse before it gets any better.. Georgie boy has opened a real can of worms, now .. can he get us out??