During World War II....

[ndee]

did they already know it was "World War II" or was it maybe called something else?

 

[Shaftatplanetquake]

Well, America did because the war was already well underway before we got involved.

 

[compudog]

I think everyone refered to it as World War II.

 

[Fencer128]

I believe that the WW1 was referred to as the "Great War". When WW2 came along it was known as the "Second World War" - which made the "Great War" "merely" the "First World War".

Make sense?

Cheers,

Andy

 

[Colt45]

dont know, but they call it "the great patriotic war" in russia (well, all of the states that were part of the sojuz at the time, i guess)