Question: Which war in 2001 is subjectively deemed a world war?

Context articles: French battleship Courbet (1911)
Legacy Australia
Legal purge in Norway after World War II
Josef Mengele
TOG2
World war
War on Terror
HMS Indomitable (1907)
Tsunami bomb
Foreign support of Finland in the Winter War

Courbet was the lead ship of her class, the first dreadnoughts built for the French Navy.
 She was completed before World War I and named in honour of Admiral Amédée Courbet.
 She spent the war in the Mediterranean, helping to sink the Austro-Hungarian protected cruiser "Zenta" in August 1914.
 She spent the rest of the war providing cover for the Otranto Barrage that blockaded the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic Sea.
 Although upgraded several times before World War II, she was not deemed to be a first-class battleship and spent most of the interwar period as a gunnery training ship.
Legacy is an Australian organisation, established in 1923 by ex-servicemen.
 The organisation has the aim of caring for the dependents of deceased Australian service men and women.
 The dependants of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, Malayan emergency and Vietnam War deceased are cared for.
 In addition the peacekeeping operations in East Timor, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have provided ongoing work for Legacy.
 Finally, any death which is deemed service-related is attended to by Legacy.
The legal purge in Norway after World War II took place between May 1945 and August 1948 against anyone who was deemed to have collaborated with the German occupation of the country.
 Several thousand Norwegians and foreign citizens were tried and convicted for crimes committed in Scandinavia during the Second World War.
 However the scope, legal basis, and fairness of these trials has since been a matter of some debate.
 A total of 40 people—including Vidkun Quisling, the Minister President of Norway during the occupation—were executed after capital punishment was reinstated in Norway.
 A further five were sentenced to death in Poland in 1947 for their actions in Norway.
Josef Mengele (] ; 16 March 19117 February 1979) was a German "Schutzstaffel" (SS) officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
 Mengele was a member of the team of doctors responsible for the selection of victims to be killed in the gas chambers and for performing deadly human experiments on prisoners.
 Arrivals deemed able to work were admitted into the camp, and those deemed unfit for labor were immediately killed in the gas chambers.
 Mengele left Auschwitz on 17 January 1945, shortly before the arrival of the liberating Red Army troops.
 After the war, he fled to South America, where he evaded capture for the rest of his life.
The Tank, Heavy, TOG II* was a prototype British tank design produced in the early part of the Second World War in case the battlefields of northern France devolved into a morass of mud, trenches and craters as had happened during the First World War.
 When this did not happen the tank was deemed unnecessary and the project terminated.
A world war, as it is commonly understood, is a large-scale war involving many of the countries of the world or many of the most powerful and populous ones.
 World wars span multiple countries on multiple continents, with battles fought in many theaters.
 While a variety of global conflicts have been subjectively deemed "world wars", such as the Cold War and the War on Terror, the term is widely and generally accepted only as it is retrospectively applied to two major international conflicts that occurred during the 20th century: World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945).
The War on Terror (WoT), also known as the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a metaphor of war referring to the international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001.
<ref name="Schmitt/slogan"> </ref> U.S. president George W. Bush first used the term ""war on terrorism"" on 16 September 2001, and then ""war on terror"" a few days later in a formal speech to Congress.
 In the latter speech, George Bush stated, "Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists and every government that supports them."
 The term was originally used with a particular focus on countries associated with al-Qaeda.
 The term was immediately criticised by such people as Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and more nuanced ones subsequently came to be used by the Bush administration to publicly define the international campaign led by the U.S.; it was never used as a formal designation of U.S. operations in internal government documentation.
HMS "Indomitable" was one of three "Invincible"-class battlecruiser s built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war.
 She tried to hunt down the German ships "Goeben" and "Breslau" in the Mediterranean when war broke out and bombarded Turkish fortifications protecting the Dardanelles even before the British declared war on Turkey.
 She helped to sink the German armoured cruiser "Blücher" during the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915 and towed the damaged British battlecruiser HMS "Lion" to safety after the battle.
 She damaged the German battlecruisers "Seydlitz" and "Derfflinger" during the Battle of Jutland in mid-1916 and watched her sister ship HMS "Invincible" explode.
 Deemed obsolete after the war, she was sold for scrap in 1921.
The tsunami bomb was an attempt during World War II to develop a tectonic weapon that could create destructive tsunamis.
 The project commenced after US Navy officer E.A. Gibson noticed small waves generated by explosions used to clear coral reefs.
 The idea was developed by the United States and New Zealand military in a programme code named Project Seal.
 The weapons concept was deemed feasible, but the weapons themselves were never fully developed or used.
 A related concept, the bouncing bomb "was" developed and used in World War II, to be dropped into water as a means to destroy German dams and cause loss of industrial capacity and widespread flooding.
The foreign support in the Winter War contained material, men and moral support to the Finnish struggle against the Soviet Union in the Winter War.
 World opinion at large supported the Finnish cause.
 The World War had not yet begun in earnest and was known to the public as the Phoney War; at that time, the Winter War was the only real fighting in Europe besides the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, and thus held major world interest.
 The Soviet aggression was generally deemed unjustified.
 Various foreign organizations sent material aid, such as medical supplies.
 Finnish immigrants in the United States and Canada returned home, and many volunteers (one of them future actor Christopher Lee) traveled to Finland to join Finland's forces: 8,700 Swedes, 1,010 Danes (including Christian Frederik von Schalburg, a captain in Christian X of Denmark's bodyguard and later commander of the Free Corps Denmark, a volunteer unit created by Nazi Germany in Denmark during World War II), about 1,000 Estonians, 725 Norwegians, 372 Ingrians, 366 Hungarians, 346 Finnish expatriates, more than 20 Latvians and 190 volunteers of other nationalities made it to Finland before the war was over.