The War to End All Wars? Hardly. But It Did Change Them Forever. - The New York Times - 0 views
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World War I, which began 100 years ago, has moved from memory to history
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In Europe’s first total war, called the Great War until the second one came along, seven million civilians also died.
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World War I also began a tradition of memorializing ordinary soldiers by name and burying them alongside their officers
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World War I could be said to have begun in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, by a young nationalist seeking a greater Serbia.
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It also featured the initial step of the United States as a global power. President Woodrow Wilson ultimately failed in his ambitions for a new
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while World War II was an embarrassing collapse, with significant collaboration. Advertisement Continue reading the main story
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“The supreme irony of 1914 is how many of the rulers of Europe grossly overestimated military power and grossly underestimated economic power,”
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he memory of July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme — when 20,000 British soldiers died, 40,000 were wounded and 60 percent of officers were killed
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In fact, the beginning of the war was mobile and extremely bloody, as were the last few months, when the big offensives of 1918 broke the German Army.
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The end of the Cold War was in a sense a return to the end of World War I, restoring sovereignty to the countries of Eastern Europe, one reason they
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Some question whether the lessons of 1914 or of 1939 are more valid today. Do we heed only the lessons of 1939,
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Others point to the dangers of declining powers faced with rising ones, considering both China and the Middle East,
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Even the Balfour Declaration, which threw British support behind the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, was signed during the war, in November 1917.
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If Tyne Cot is the largest military cemetery for the Commonwealth, this is the smallest American military cemetery.