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Originally Posted by T@T
I may be wrong but I think it was called the "great war" not because we won but because at the time it was the first global war, it had the largest death toll for a time period and in the end it also and paved the way for major political changes across the world.
The "Home by Christmas" and "a good adventure for our boys" was a normal type slogan from the U.S Civil War till the end WWII and probably longer, nothing shocking at all.
I do agree though that it didn't create peace but then again we still don't have global peace!
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It was also called the war to end all wars, but we know how that turned out