As many World Wars as possible...

i always find it funny when someone says that Europe was the main theatre of WWII and someone else points out (as if to contradict them) that China was hit nearly as bad. :rolleyes:

Except that again, Japan v. Jiang and Mao is a hell of a different thing than the Siege of Tsingtao was. World War II saw the first-large scale strategic bombing and battles in China when Europe was still dismembering Czechoslovakia. Japan's actions here helped spur Hitler into the other war, so it can be hard to separate the one from the other even if people really try it.

Technically the Seven Years war started in North America when Washington attacked Canada, so there.

Yeah, so?
 
Of the modern era and as others have said WW1 was 7YW, WW2 Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, WW3 The Great War and WW4 the '39-'45 War. You could also argue that we are already engaged in WW5-The War on Terrorism. Each of the wars with very different characteristics too...

KillerT:
WW5 would be Cold War, WW6 the War on Terror.

Yeah, history doesn't really work that way, I'm afraid.
 
Of the modern era and as others have said WW1 was 7YW, WW2 Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, WW3 The Great War and WW4 the '39-'45 War. You could also argue that we are already engaged in WW5-The War on Terrorism. Each of the wars with very different characteristics too...

I actually think that what differentiate "World Wars" with the other "Great Wars" was that in "World Wars" ALL of world's MAJOR powers were involved...

Seven Years War and American Revolutionary War - were Ottoman Empire, China, and Persia involved...?
Napoleonic War - were United States, China, and Japan involved...?

So by this definition Cold War should be called WWIII...but I'm not sure about War on Terrorism...
 
I actually think that what differentiate "World Wars" with the other "Great Wars" was that in "World Wars" ALL of world's MAJOR powers were involved...

Seven Years War and American Revolutionary War - were Ottoman Empire, China, and Persia involved...?
Napoleonic War - were United States, China, and Japan involved...?

So by this definition Cold War should be called WWIII...but I'm not sure about War on Terrorism...

The US and Japan were not major world powers at the time of Napoleon, and the US were involved however.
In SYW and ARW times Persia was no more a world power either, it was somewhat involved indirectly in SYW in the Indian theatre however.

It can be questioned what a being a world power meant in Early Modern times. Power and balance systems were regional, but one region, Europe, dominated the Western Emisphere and most of world's seas, that other regional powers didn't.
I'd say that that the only non-european World Power in late 18 century was actually China. Ottoman Empire no more so after Kuçuk Kainarca (1774) or at most, Jassy (1792).
 
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