By the term World War, the factors that are also involved in aside from location of combat. Though France and England were global superpowers, the amount of fighting and the loss of life, hardly compares to "The Great War." The actual name of World War 1.
Also two primary countries fighting in a seperate country also doesn't constitute a "World War." When there is a large scale global conflict that was the great war. Then yes, that would be a world war. "Japan was involved during the first world war and were with the allied powers of the time with Britian, America, France, Italy, and Russia.
A global conflict situation is likely but with so many countries allying themseleves with one another, it would be mixed.
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