Global Wars

The term Global Wars is used in Valmante mostly to refer to five major, multinational wars that took place during the late 19th and early 20th centuries:

• First Global War, February 1883 - July 1887

• Second Global War, April 1903 - May 1906

• Third Global War, May 1919 - December 1924

• Fourth Global War, March 1940 - October 1947

• Fifth Global War, June 1954 - January 1957

The period of the wars is often taken as the watershed of modern, "multipolar" Valmante; the political upheavals of the war, as well as the massive economic growth it fuelled amongst many of the belligerent countries, led to a situation at the end of the wars when economic supremacy no longer rested with any single country.