It was a world war because it involved all the worlds superpowers and was fought throughout the world eg. Western and Eastern European theater, North African theater, Pacific theater etc.
As the name "World War" suggests, it involved most of the world. Major areas of combat included Europe, Africa, Asia, with some combat in North and South America.
World War 2 started of because of the harshness that the allies had inflicted upon Germany forcing them into a recession. at this point Adolf Hitler took his opportunity to use propaganda to...
World War 2 was fought primarily in Europe (European Theatre) and Asia (Pacific Theatre) (Germany, Russia, Italy, Poland, Japan, China, French Polynesian Islands) Those are just a handful of the...
The main fronts of world war two were: Western Front: Germany vs. Britain and later, America; Eastern Front: European Axis (Germany, Romania, Italy, Bulgaria, Finland & Albania) vs. Russia;...