I’ve always wondered this. The 7 Years war was fought on multiple continents and decided the world as we know it, just like both World Wars. I just don’t get why it wasn’t seen as a world war and I came here to ask why.
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~~I think you are missing a big point.~~
~~World War 1, was not coined at the outbreak, nor at the end of that war.~~
~~The first world war was actually called The Great War. Because it was a huge increase in the lethality and really all aspects of the war.~~
~~Gone was the innocence and naivety of previous wars, war was now a generation destroying, terrible event.~~
~~Then when the next war happened that was even worse, they decided that The Second Great war was a bit weird. So they renamed The Great War as The first world war, and named the second one.. well The Second World War.~~
Turns out that is actually wrong and they were referring to the war as The World War, as early at 1914. You can read this in the Wikipedia Article about the term “World War”
>The term “first world war” was first used in September 1914 by German biologist and philosopher [Ernst Haeckel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel), who claimed that “there is no doubt that the course and character of the feared ‘European War’ … will become the first world war in the full sense of the word”,[^([4])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShapiroEpstein2006329-4) citing a wire service report in the [*Indianapolis Star*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indianapolis_Star) on 20 September 1914.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war)
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