Question

Why did World War 1 is sometimes referred to as Great War?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

The most frequent moniker for the First World War at the time was 'Great War,' while 'European War' was also used. As the first pan-European war since Napoleon, 'Great' merely referred to the conflict's tremendous scale, similar to how we could refer to a 'great storm' or a 'great flood' today.

The phrase, however, had moral undertones. The Allies believed they were fighting a terrible militarism that had infiltrated Germany. 'Great War' evoked Armageddon, the biblical Great Battle of Good and Evil set to take place at the end of time (there was indeed a battle at Megiddo, the site of Armageddon, in September 1918). As a result, it was sometimes known to as "the Great War of Civilization."

Although the term 'Great War' was used after the conflict ended, the moral undertones and assumptions that it had been 'a war to end all wars' faded as the danger of a second world war loomed in the 1930s.