world war
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We have traveled from the illusion that humanity had left global wars behind forever to the stark prospect of a third world war that could span continents and have devastating global consequences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
"It will be Africa's second world war," he said, alluding to the 1998-2003 Congo war that involved nine African nations.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
For example, children born to mothers who endured famine in the Netherlands during the second world war were more likely to develop heart disease, type 2 diabetes and schizophrenia later in life.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
There’s nothing coincidental in the fact that military schools also rose up around then, and that they kept multiplying past the first world war and up to the second one.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Of course, it wasn’t known as World War I until the outbreak of a second world war in 1939.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
