:There are bound to be national names for the overall conflict, I mean a silly example could be the American Revolutionary War, which we British appear to, more often than not, call the American War of Independence – or simlar. There are countless other examples, although one must admit that sitting here now my minds gone blank. 
 :As for the examples provided the Soviet term, the "Great Patriotic War" was that not constructed as a propaganda name to help construct a fighting sprit among the people? It is somewhat clear that the politicians and the Soviet armed forces clearly saw the war as something far greater than a fight against the Axis forces on the Eastern front as seen from their co-operation with the Western powers on a military level, economic level i.e. lend-lease, and a political level i.e. calling for a second front fighting over the Balkans, Greece and post war Europe and not to mention their commitment to join in the fight against the Japanese once Germany was defeated. 
 :As for the other example of Finland’s Continuation War, one could see this as just another front on the Eastern Front - it wasn’t like they were fighting a completely separate action from everyone else and were supported by German forces at times. 
 :On top of that the British Empire also fought the Anglo-Iraqi war and the fighting in North Africa is sometimes referred to as the Desert War. The latter two are clearly just other campaigns fought by the British Empire in the much larger overarching conflict commonly known as World War Two.   

 == Total War == 

 Considering the Second World War is the greatest example of total war am somewhat surprised to see the term only mentioned within the lead and once in a note. Surely this term should crop up a couple more times throughout the article considering the devastation of economic areas, the attacks (directly and indirectly) on the work forces and the genocides that happened.