The war to end all wars.
Who said world war one was the war to end all wars. He and others felt that this war would put an end once and for all to the sort of governments and attitudes. This prompted prolonged negotiations over proposed solutions like the League of Nations. Both sides victors and vanquished were ruined 20 Geoffrey Wheatcroft Geoffrey Wheatcroft is an English journalist and.
Mockingly he said that The Great War like the next war is a war to end war and of course he was right. By the end of hostilities World War 1. To the shock of absolutely nobody conflicts persisted around the world after the armistice was signed on November 11 1918.
With CiarĂ¡n McMenamin Robert Carlyle Kiefer Sutherland Mark Strong. Wells is famous for having predicted air and space travel the atomic bomb and the tank satellite television and something like the internet. The opportunity to recover World War Is sense of purpose first arose but was not taken in 1964 when the historian Fritz Fischer argued that Germany had both sought the war and fought it to dominate Europe.
As Winston Churchill said all too truly of this war to end all wars. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties in Germany Russia Austria-Hungary and Turkey resulted in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and in its destabilization of European society laid the groundwork for World War II. To End All Wars.
After it was over World War I was called the war to end all wars because it was so destructive that the nations of the world wanted to prevent such slaughter from ever happening again. Winston Churchill subsequently said that the British sea commander Admiral Sir John Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could have lost the war in an afternoon. The treaty forced Germany to accept blame for the war and saddled the nation with extremely high reparations to the Allies for the cost of the war.
Nearly a century ago Corporal Martin Berger from the Bronx NY went into battle in France. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years. Alexander ChernyakovEGetty Images.