In a world where the Axis win World War II, what would they call the conflict? Would they keep our name for it or would they use a propaganda laced-term for it like 'War Against American Imperialism and Asian Liberation' for the Pacific War or 'War Against The Treachery of 1918' for the European front?
Axis names for World War II
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I have no idea what Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy might call their wars, sorry. But for Militaristic Japan, I have some idea. In Japanese today, the war is usually only called Work War II if you are talking about the global conflict, or at least multiple theaters. Otherwise, the names change depending on which theater you are talking about. The fighting in China was referred to at the time as the "China Incident", or 支那時変" in Japanese. Please not that this particular name for China in Japanese is now often considered derogatory, especially outside of Japan. It's not used in modern Japanese. In a victorious Militaristic Japan scenario, that probably won't be a concern. If you are focused on the fighting in Asia outside of China, the term "Greater East Asian War", or 大東亜戦争 is used. If you are fighting against the US and UK, the term "Pacific War" or 太平洋戦争 is used. In a victorious Militaristic Japan scenario, I expect both names will be even more common.
Sugestions for a german name: Der Grosser Vaterlaendische Krieg
Der Krieg zur Neugestaltung Europas
Der Krieg zur Neugestaltung Europas
Well, Germans used to call campaigns feldzug. Polish, French etc. If British capitulated or signed some kind of peace after French, there would probably not even be Balkan campaign. Soviet would be another one. Sometimes called russlandfeldzug or ostfeldzug. So there wouldn't even be proper Zweiter Weltkriege but separate wars, campaigns.
They called it "Zweite Weltkrieg", "Second World War," and they still do. The First World War was often an unqualified "der Weltkrieg." Considering that "Dritte Reich" was an acceptable name for the Nazi state, they probably would have remained calling it the Second World War. It was so huge that it doesn't lend itself to politicized names, it has to be something massive ("Great Patriotic War" is one example). It wasn't just the war against the Anglo-American plutocrats or the Judeo-Bolsheviks or against Polish aggression, it was also the war to protect European civilization and to ensure the freedom of the German people. (All these points are from a Nazi perspective, particularly on what counted to Nazis as "freedom".)
Or, in their more propagandized examples, Feldzug was replaced by Gegenangriff "counterattack", such as Gegenangriff nach Polen "The Counterattack against Poland."
Maybe. Or as Soviet called Liberation. For example Slovaks called their war against Poland war, but also polne tazenie - basically feldzug. But also liberation war as teritories with Slovak majority gained by Poland in 1938 but also.1924 were loberated. Not sure gow Hungarians or Romanians called their campaigns against Soviet Inion.