id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9873 World war - Wikipedia .html text/html 4321 683 71 The Oxford English Dictionary cited the first known usage in the English language to a Scottish newspaper, The People's Journal, in 1848: "A war among the great powers is now necessarily a world-war." The term "world war" is used by Karl Marx and his associate, Friedrich Engels,[2] in a series of articles published around 1850 called The Class Struggles in France. The term "World War I" was coined by Time magazine on page 28b of its June 12, 1939 issue. In terms of human technological history, the scale of World War I was enabled by the technological advances of the second industrial revolution and the resulting globalization that allowed global power projection and mass production of military hardware. The Second World War occurred from 1939 to 1945 and is the only conflict in which nuclear weapons have been used; both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in the Japanese Empire, were devastated by atomic bombs dropped by the United States. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9873.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9873.txt