Has there been any attempt to rename what was probably the first truly global conflict as World War 1? Given the nature of conflicts receiving different names relative to the belligerents, it seems like a potentially lucrative move by scholars or politicians.
Winston Churchill outright called it "the first World War" in his History of the English Speaking Peoples, and this was written and published after both of the actual World Wars. But since the war of 1914-18 is already universally known as the First World War, to affect a proper change would require everybody to start referring to World War I as World War II, and thus World War II as World War III, and that simply isn't going to happen. The names have existed and been widely used for 70 to 100 years already and are deeply ingrained in the popular conscious. And realistically, what would be the point of changing the name? It wouldn't be strictly accurate either, because the earlier War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48) was also global in scope, so is that actually the first World War, making the Seven Years War the... Second World War?