What would the First World War be called if the Americans and Japanese hadn't joined?

If we handwave away American involvement and the military action of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, leaving the conflict to solely play out amongst the European powers, would historians ITTL still call the war a world war? Although there would still be fighting in the colonial territories and units drawn from Britain's dominions and France's colonies, would it be enough to qualify the conflict as a truly global conflict? The precedence set by quasi-global conflicts like the Seven Year War would suggest otherwise in terms of naming, but I was interested in what others thought.
 
You could say the same of the Seven Years' War, but it ended up getting called something else.
That wasn't in the modern era, nor did it include places as far afield as New Zealand in the fighting.

The definition of a World War is a war which includes nations from all parts of the world. The Great War qualifies.
 
That wasn't in the modern era, nor did it include places as far afield as New Zealand in the fighting.

The definition of a World War is a war which includes nations from all parts of the world. The Great War qualifies.

No, just places as far afield as the Philippines.

The Great War does indeed qualify, but thanks to European colonial adventures, other wars can be said to qualify as well. They just ended up with different names because they were in another era. Just because it was a world war doesn't mean they'll necessarily call it that.
 
I think a world war qualified. Why America and Japan entering the war make it a world war? What about Canada? That was part of the Americas. What about India? That was part of Asia. Even without the USA and Japan, the conflict involved people being drawn from across the world to fight. There still would have been multiple fronts to the fight, ala fighting in the pacific between the British and German fleets and fighting in Africa in the colonies. I think calling it a World War is perfectly fine.

Who in fact coined the term World War I? Because if it wasn't the USA (I'm almost certain it wouldn't have been Japan) it must have been someone in Europe so I imagine they'd coin it the same.

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I just did a quick wiki, turns out the term World War was about before the war around 1909, and was coined by Germany. The term WWI and the 1st WW came about much later in the USA.

The term World War was coined speculatively in the early 20th century, some years before the First World War broke out, probably as a literal translation of the German word Weltkrieg.[1] German writer August Wilhelm Otto Niemann had used the word in the title of his anti-British novel Der Weltkrieg: Deutsche Träume ("The World War: German Dreams") as early as 1904, published in English as The coming conquest of England. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first known usage in the English language as being in April 1909, in the pages of the Westminster Gazette.

The term First World War was used in the book The First World War: A Photographic History, edited by playwright and war veteran Laurence Stallings and published in 1933.[2] The term "World War I" was invented by Time magazine in its issue of June 12, 1939.[3] In that same issue, the term World War II was first used speculatively by Time magazine to describe the upcoming war.[4] The first use for the actual war came in its issue of September 11, 1939.[5]

I believe that the term would probably come up again if another major war with similar combatants was to follow. The name appears to be retroactively applied in the face of another similar conflict.
 
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