world wars
Century's defining battles
World wars are military conflicts involving many of the world's major nations across multiple continents.
The term typically refers to the two catastrophic conflicts of the twentieth century: World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945).
Both reshaped national boundaries, caused tens of millions of deaths, and transformed global politics.
A feared third world war would likely involve nuclear weapons.
- alliesCooperative partners united together
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
- veteransFormer armed forces members
- axisRotation reference line
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
postwar reconstruction · Hiroshima · fascism · trenches · no man's land · Holocaust · massacres · Treaty of Versailles · atomic bomb · European integration · propaganda · Rosie the Riveter · casualties · Great Depression · Russian Revolution · refugees · bombs · draft
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- PortugalLisbon, Porto, Algarve, Oporto, Madeira
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, US Constitution
- Asian historyancient China, China, empresses, shoguns, Chinese civilization
- World Referenceencyclopedia, reference book
- upheavalsupheaval, revolution, revolt, uprising, overthrow
world warsborder skirmishes
Small fights at boundaries
civil wars · proxy wars · territorial disputes · tribal conflicts · insurgencies
world warsworld peace
Global absence of conflict
global peace · détente · peacetime · peaceful coexistence · armistice
world warsinterwar period
1918 to 1939
postwar era · peacetime · Roaring Twenties · reconstruction era
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