Others however took a more optimistic approach by calling it The War to End All Wars As history has shown this was certainly not the case but some plucky upbeat civilians genuinely believed it would be rainbows and sunshine.

Why was it called the war to end all wars. Directed by David L. The War to End All Wars. Battlefields of a million tears spilled Military author Robert Mueller reviews Americas participation in the war to end all wars as he takes you on a trip across the battlefields of Northern France to describe the events people and places of Americas contribution to the defeat of the German Kaiser.

It was part of the slow process of forgetting the war to end all war. In any case the term was a paraphrasing of what HG. Commonly cited as the war to end all wars or a similar variant the phrase was quickly adopted as a slogan to explain British and later American.

Wells - the famed British writer - wrote in his book The War That Will End War. A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a. World War I was known as the war to end all wars because of the great slaughter and destruction it causedUnfortunately the peace treaty that officially ended the conflictthe Treaty of Versailles of 1919forced punitive terms on Germany that destabilized Europe and laid the groundwork for World.

The war pitted the Central Powersmainly Germany Austria-Hungary and Turkeyagainst the Alliesmainly France. Thus WWI was called the war to end all wars because there were people who felt that it would lead to the destruction of the sorts of governments and attitudes that caused war. It lasted four years.

World War I also called First World War or Great War an international conflict that in 191418 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia the United States the Middle East and other regions. In words oft quoted and all too true George Kennan called the outbreak of war in August 1914 the great seminal catastrophe of the last century. 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.

The war to end all wars was one of the most common catchphrases used to describe World War I. To End All Wars. This book was published shortly after the outbreak of the war in 1914 and Wells - an advocate for Britains involvement - argued that war would only end by defeating German imperialism.