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Originally Posted by oldman9x7 If anyone has the time can you tell me WTF difference there is between World War Two and The Second World War???
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The standard answer goes along these lines:
"The Second World War" is ostensibly a more neutral name, since it simply points out that this was a
second world war after there had been a previous 'global' conflict (referred to prior to the Second World War simply as "The Great War", of course).
"World War Two", on the other hand, makes it sound as though this is merely one 'episode' in an ongoing (and thus inevitable) series of 'global' conflicts, with "World War 3", "World War 4", etc. lined up for production at a Hollywood studio in the near future.
In short: the first name makes it sound more like a unique conflict that needs to be considered on its own terms; while the latter reduces it to a mere skirmish in an ongoing series of human squabbles.
