Editing World war (section)

==Etymology==
The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' had cited the first known usage in the [[English language]] to a [[Scotland|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]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1887/12/15.htm|title=Introduction to Borkheim|last=Engels|first=Frederick|access-date=2015-03-01|archive-date=2018-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716152910/https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1887/12/15.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> in a series of articles published around 1850 called ''The Class Struggles in France''. [[Rasmus B. 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").<ref>[[Rasmus Björn Anderson]] (translator: [[Viktor Rydberg]]), ''Teutonic Mythology'', vol. 1, [https://books.google.com/books?id=-uJRw32enFQC&pg=PT237 p. 139] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126230205/https://books.google.com/books?id=-uJRw32enFQC&pg=PT237 |date=2020-01-26 }}, London: S. Sonnenschein & Co., 1889 {{OCLC|626839}}.</ref> 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''.

The term "first world war"<!--do not capitalize here; per the quote, it's not a proper noun--> 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' ... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word",{{sfn |Shapiro |Epstein |2006 |p=329}} citing a wire service report in the ''[[The Indianapolis Star|Indianapolis Star]]'' on 20 September 1914. In English, the term "First World War" had been used by Lieutenant Colonel [[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.<ref>{{cite news|title=Chief Editor's notes June 2014|work=Oxford English Dictionary's blog|date=2014-06-13|first=Michael|last=Proffitt|url=https://public.oed.com/blog/june-2014-update-chief-editors-notes-june-2014/|access-date=2022-04-25|archive-date=2022-04-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415031658/https://public.oed.com/blog/june-2014-update-chief-editors-notes-june-2014/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://qi.com/infocloud/the-first-world-war|title=The First World War|work=Quite Interesting|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103043739/https://qi.com/infocloud/the-first-world-war|archivedate=2014-01-03}} Also aired on [[List of QI episodes|QI Series I]] Episode 2, 16 September 2011, BBC Two.</ref>

The term "World War I" was coined by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine on page 28 of its June 12, 1939, issue. In the same article, on page 32, the term "World War{{nbsp}}II" was first used speculatively to describe the upcoming war. The first use for the actual war came in its issue of September 11, 1939.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/3195322/world-war-grey-friday/ |title=Grey Friday: TIME Reports on World War II Beginning |magazine=TIME |date=September 11, 1939 |access-date=20 October 2014 |quote=World War II began last week at 5:20 a. m. (Polish time) Friday, September 1, when a German bombing plane dropped a projectile on Puck, a fishing village and airbase in the armpit of the Hel Peninsula. |archive-date=11 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011180303/http://time.com/3195322/world-war-grey-friday/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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."<ref>"Den anden Verdenskrig udbrød i Gaar Middags Kl. 11", ''Kristeligt Dagblad'', September 4, 1939, Extra edition.</ref>

[[Speculative fiction]] authors had been noting the concept of a Second World War in 1919 and 1920, when [[Milo Hastings]] wrote his [[dystopian]] novel, ''City of Endless Night''.

Other languages have also adopted the "world war" terminology; for example, in [[French language|French]], "world war" is translated as {{Lang|fr|guerre mondiale|italic=yes}}; in [[German language|German]], {{Lang|de|Weltkrieg|italic=yes}} (which, prior to the war, had been used in the more abstract meaning of a global conflict); in [[Italian language|Italian]], {{Lang|it|guerra mondiale|italic=yes}}; in [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], {{Lang|es|guerra mundial|italic=yes}}; in [[Danish language|Danish]] and [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], {{Lang|no|verdenskrig|italic=yes}}; in [[Polish language|Polish]] {{Lang|pl|wojna światowa|italic=yes}}; in [[Russian language|Russian]], {{Lang|ru|мировая война|italic=yes}} ({{Lang|ru-LT|mirovaya voyna|italic=yes}}); and in [[Finnish language|Finnish]], {{Lang|fi|maailmansota|italic=yes}}.