Armistice Day and WWI's Global Effects
Category: WORLDPOST
What rapidly came to be called the "Great War" was widely understood not just as a "world" war but also as an "epochal" moment in world history. It was the first "total war" in which entire nations and peoples could be organized toward the waging of war.
By Christopher McKnight Nichols, ContributorAssociate Professor of History, Oregon State University, 2014-11-11