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Moon7296 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

World War/ other wars with 'the'

World War I

World War II

The Korean War

The Vietnam War

The French and Indian War

I found most of the wars have a definite article the while World War I and II have not the.

Is there a reason or no reason?
  

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Good question, Moon. Perhaps the answer lies in the scale of the wars. Both World War I and II involved nearly the entire planet and there is no need for a definite article because it was so widespread and fought on so many different fronts.

— JohnParis

  • Good question, Moon.
  • Perhaps the answer lies in the scale of the wars.
  • Both World War I and II involved nearly the entire planet and there is no need for a definite article because it was so widespread and fought on so many different fronts.
  • The Korean War was, on the other hand, localized and fought only in North and South Korea.
  • It's the same for The American Civil War (The Civil War) and The Vietnam (first called The War in Indochina by the French).
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Good question, Moon.

Perhaps the answer lies in the scale of the wars.

Both World War I and II involved nearly the entire planet and there is no need for a definite article because it was so widespread and fought on so many different fronts. The Korean War was, on the other hand, localized and fought only in North and South Korea. It's the same for The American Civil War (The Civ
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