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  War to end all wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
World War I (then known as The Great War) was at the time and in the years just after described as the "war to end all wars" (or, in the jargon of the French Poilus: "la der des der", i.e.
The notion of the conflict being a war to end all wars was also closely linked to the portrayal of Germany among the Allies; the country was seen as the heir of Prussian militarism, and a longtime warmonger.
According to Marxism, the inevitable war establishing communism would end all wars in accordance with the Marxist belief that such conflicts are simply parts of class struggle, and that statelessness would occur in a communist world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_to_end_all_wars   (323 words)

  
 War to end all wars: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
World war i, also known as the first world war, the great war, the war of the nations, and the war to end all wars, was a world conflict occurring...
The end of history and the last man is a 1992 book by francis fukuyama, expanding on his 1989 essay "the end of history?", in which he argues the controversial...
The war on terrorism or war on terror (abbreviated in policy circles as gwot for global war on terror) is a global effort by the governments of several...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/war_to_end_all_wars.htm   (1109 words)

  
 World War I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some war memorials date the end of the war as being when the Versailles treaty was signed in 1919; by contrast, most commemorations of the war's end concentrate on the armistice of November 11, 1918.
During the war, the Haber process of nitrogen fixation was employed to provide the German forces with a continuing supply of powder for the ongoing conflict in the face of British naval control over the trade routes for naturally occurring nitrates.
In Australian and New Zealand popular legend, the First World War is known as the nation's "baptism of fire", as it was the first major war in which the newly established countries fought, and it is one of the first cases where Australian troops fought as Australians, not just subjects of the British Crown.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_war_one   (10330 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Special Report | 1998 | 10/98 | World War I | The war to end all wars
World War I is also regarded as the first "total war" in which the combatants mobilised all their resources, military, industrial and human, on a scale never before thought possible.
The catalyst for the war was the death of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was assassinated while he was visiting Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
It spelled the end of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires and was the catalyst for the Russian revolution.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/198172.stm   (731 words)

  
 The War That Didn't End All Wars
They called it "The Great War," and it was a titanic struggle that decimated Europe and killed the young men who were the brightest hope of that generation.
President Woodrow Wilson called it "The War to End All Wars," but he was sadly mistaken.
At the war's end -- at "the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month" -- about 113,000 Americans had paid the ultimate sacrifice.
nyjtimes.com /cover/11-11-05/TheWarThatDidntEndAllWars.htm   (508 words)

  
 The War (Meant) To End All Wars - CBS News
While it didn't quite fulfill that prediction, 90 years after the war began in August 1914, the unwieldy causes of World War I are still the subject of lusty discussion in history classrooms.
Click here for a timeline of World War I. The four-year conflict that followed was different from all others in sheer volume of both those that fought and the death toll.
On Wednesday, according to The Associated Press the 90th anniversary of the day Britain declared war on Germany, London is commemorating the event at the Cenotaph, the war memorial originally built for the first anniversary of the 1918 armistice.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/08/04/world/main633998.shtml   (1179 words)

  
 The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large
Historians rethink the war to end all wars.
The First World War teaches that territorial compromise is better than full-scale war, that an “honor-bound” allegiance of the great powers to small nations is a recipe for mass killing, and that it is crazy to let the blind mechanism of armies and alliances trump common sense.
The new histories suggest that the war was welcomed in 1914, and particularly by the literate classes, as a necessary act of hygiene, a chance to restore seriousness of purpose after the two trivial decades of the Edwardian Belle Époque.
www.newyorker.com /critics/atlarge/?040823crat_atlarge   (5151 words)

  
 More costly than 'the war to end all wars'
Despite the relatively small number of American armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan (140,000), the war effort is rapidly shaping up to be the third-most expensive war in United States history.
The amount spent on the war in Iraq ($186 billion) and Afghanistan ($66 billion) is "inching up" on the cost of the Korean War, says Steven Kosiak, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment in Washington.
Given the Iraq-Afghanistan war is costing from $80 billion to $100 billion a year, its price is likely to exceed that of the Korean War by late 2006 or 2007 - if it lasts that long.
www.infowars.com /articles/iraq/more_costly_than_wwii.htm   (703 words)

  
 World War I
Under the peace settlement, Germany was required to pay reparations eventually set at $33 billion; accept responsibility for the war; cede territory to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, and Poland; give up its overseas colonies; and accept an allied military force on the west bank of the Rhine River for 15 years.
Examines the impact of the war on the home front, including its impact on labor, dissenters, intellectuals, and African Americans, and assesses Wilson's presidential leadership.
This story is neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it.
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /modules/ww1/index.cfm   (554 words)

  
 Democratic Underground Forums - "The War to End All Wars"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In a few years' time, there will be none, and the "Great" war, the war that so palpably failed to end all wars, will no longer have living witnesses to its horrors.
The Generals in that war would make long term plans based on how many recruits they anticipated they would get to replace the casualties.
My opinion has allways been that the first "modern" war was the US Civil War and when the US came to Europe they brought with them tactics and experience.
www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID35/7947.html   (765 words)

  
 Catallarchy » A War To End All Wars
This war will be a football game in the hills of southwest Virginia as the University of Virginia (UVA) Cavaliers travel to Blacksburg to play the Virginia Tech (VT or VPI) Hokies for the Commonwealth Cup.
The greatest indignity suffered will be of a losing team’s fan having to wear the winning team’s sweatshirt after losing a bet with a co-worker; the greatest spoil of victory will be the pride of the Commonwealth.
Though this war may not have the geo-political implications of other wars, that is a feature not a flaw.
catallarchy.net /blog/archives/2004/11/26/a-war-to-end-all-wars   (1218 words)

  
 Daily Bible Study - The War To End All Wars
On November 11 1918, the Armistice was signed to end "The Great War," or "First World War" in Europe.
Anyone who thinks that war is like a naive and simplistic "John Wayne movie" quickly learns how false and foolish that idea is when they find themselves on the ground in a real war.
The good news (Gospel literally means good news) is that war is going to end and "Remembrance Day" will truly be about wars of the past, not merely remembering wars of the past while more wars are happening.
www.keyway.ca /htm2005/20051111.htm   (690 words)

  
 RPG Now: The War To End All Wars, 2.5 Edition
The War to End All Wars was first published in 1998 and has since been the flagship product to the long and successful Empires of History board game series.
The War to End All Wars is a territorial strategy board game covering World War I on all fronts.
While not a complex game that breaks down the individual national armies into named brigades or divisions, the level of historical detailing in The War to End All Wars is enough that multiple professors now utilize this game to help teach the WW1 era to middle, high school, and even college students.
www.rpgnow.com /product_info.php?products_id=5461   (640 words)

  
 World War I WebQuest
You will use primary sources to explore the experience of different participant's roles in World War I and what it may have been like to have been in 'their shoes'.
Share this understanding with a larger group comprised of all the different types of participants, in order to be able to write an analysis and response to the essential question.
In order to begin the World War I WebQuest, click on the image of the participant you are assigned to study.
www.sonic.net /bantam1/wqww1.html   (635 words)

  
 World War One Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
WWI MAPS MAP: Europe, 1914 MAP: Europe on the Eve of World War I, 1914 Map - Wars from 1900 to 1925 Map - Losses in World War One Map...
For many years afterwards its causes, and the conduct of all the participants were minutely picked-over, investigated and analysed.
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War of the Nations and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict...
www.gislinx.com /worldwaronemap.html   (298 words)

  
 FirstWorldWar.Com: The War to End All Wars
Site Overview: The tangled origins of the international conflict dubbed alternately “The Great War,” “The War to End All Wars,” and now best known as “The First World War” or “World War I,” can be difficult to unravel.
However, despite the extent of the content included on his site, Duffy does not provide any biographical details on himself, leaving his authority and bias in doubt, and no other contact information is provided beyond an e-mail link.
At a minimum, links are ensured to be active, and the front page is changed on a regular basis, highlighting different aspects of the site, though the author is always soliciting contributions to improve his site.
www.publichistory.org /reviews/view_review.asp?DBID=92   (1215 words)

  
 All Quiet Web Quest
A deputy in the Kaiser's office has given you a piece of paper with hastily scrawled questions on it concerning the war.
Military information is worth a lot of money on the open market and could change the outcome of the war.
Be prepared to reveal your secret information to members of the platoon, on the date communicated to you by your teacher, to confirm that your information is correct.
www.studyguide.org /allquietonwesternfront.htm   (363 words)

  
 Star Wars: Databank | War's End
After long years of scattered combat, the Clone Wars are finally coming to a close.
After trading victories and defeats and repeated stalemates, the Republic engages the Separatists in the Outer Rim Sieges.
This action was dramatized earlier this year in the second volume of the Clone Wars micro-series.
www.starwars.com /databank/updates/news20051207.html   (96 words)

  
 First World War, The (mini-series) - The War To End All Wars...As You've Never Seen It Before!
It wiped out ten million people, heralded the birth of modern warfare and engendered mass destruction on a scale never before known in human history.
Dubbed "the war to end all wars," it was directly responsible for the outbreak of fresh international conflict barely twenty years later.
Yet in terms of intelligent contemporary examination, World War I is constantly placed second behind World War II.
www.tvshowsondvd.com /newsitem.cfm?NewsID=3385   (273 words)

  
 The War to End All Wars Board Game, 2.5 Edition
The War to End All Wars is the core game, yet each game is playable as a stand alone game.
Get The War to End All Wars, Great War in Africa, North American Upgrade Set, Rise of the Red Army and Extra Army Upgrade Set.
The War To End All Wars, Great War in Africa, North American Upgrade Set and Rise of the Red Army have all been upgraded to new editions.
www.guildofblades.com /empires/wwi.html   (517 words)

  
 CorpWatch : IRAQ: More Costly Than 'War to End all Wars'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Despite the relatively small number of American armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war effort is rapidly shaping up to be the third-most expensive war in United States history.
This document may contain copyrighted materialwhose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.CorpWatch is making this article available in our efforts to advance the understanding of corporate accountability, human rights, labor rights, social and environmental justice issues.
www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=12578   (869 words)

  
 First World War.com - A multimedia history of World War One
Read Ron Johnston's summary of how MOTH came to be established and how it operates today.
Read how Adolf Hitler's experiences in the First World War came to shape his world view.
Listen to two archive recordings of one of the signature tunes of World War One.
www.firstworldwar.com   (99 words)

  
 Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - War To End All Wars reviewed by The House of Shred
Guitar God Yngwie J. Malmsteen, the master of all things shred, returns with his lates opus, War To End All Wars, which in itself is a collection of some of the most aggressive material to ever come out of the Maestro's musical mastermind.
I think War To End All Wars could have benefitted from a vocalist with a better low range (*cough* Mats Leven *cough*).
Full of rippin' leads and infectious grooves, War To End All Wars is a terrific "U.S. comeback" album for Yngwie Malmsteen.
www.houseofshred.com /reviews/malmsteen_war.htm   (439 words)

  
 WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: The War to End All Wars
Today, the United States and Canada honor the anniversary of the Armistice signed by the Allies and the Germans in 1918, ending World War I, the most destructive war then yet seen.
But after a long century drenched in the blood of hundreds of millions of war dead, one wonders what might have been different if he'd succeeded.
Certainly the idea that nations can usually find better ways of resolving their differences other than the mass murder of one another's citizens is an idea whose time has come.
www.worldchanging.com /archives/001564.html   (181 words)

  
 World War One, "The War to End All Wars" Bibliography
Every attempt has been made to cover all aspects of the war in order to give the researcher a sense of its scope, devastation and aftermath.
At sea as well as in the trenches, strategy withered into attrition; and the last military chances of avoiding a long war and utter mutual exhaustion had gone.
War of the Eagles: Eastern Front 1914 - 1918.
www.slco.lib.ut.us /Ww1.htm   (1705 words)

  
 War to End All Wars - Chamber of Secrets
When she had asked the Death Eaters why the Dark Lord required Draco’s presence, they had just shrugged their shoulders and told her it was top secret.
It had now been two hours since those Death Eaters had taken Draco away, and she was running through the tiny village of Spinners End trying to find the only person who could help her, Severus Snape.
Narcissa knew that Snape had to know why the Dark Lord wanted Draco’s presence, he was in the Dark Lord’s inner circle after all.
www.cosforums.com /showthread.php?p=3643210#post3643210   (1376 words)

  
 Guild of Blades - War to End All Wars - review - thrasher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is a game about World War I that is played on an area-based map with the plastic playing pieces of the original AandA game.
In The War to End All Wars this looks like somebody has just subdivided the nations in a way he though it was OK. To be honest: I think they really did it that way - just divide a nation in some subareas without thinking about realism.
One more thing about the maps: the Guild of Blades stated on their webpage (and told me personally via e-mail) that a fl and white map of South America should be included in the package.
www.wargamer.com /axisandallies/CE/gob/gob_wwi_review.html   (1208 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The First World War: The War to End All Wars: Books: Geoffrey Jukes,Geoffrey Jukes. Peter Simkins,Michael ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The American Civil War: this Mighty Scourge of War by Gary Gallagher
A series of moving extracts from personal letters, diaries and journals bring to life the experiences of soldiers and civilians caught up in the war.
The route which led the major powers of Europe to war in 1914 was long and tortuous, with many complex and interwoven factors eventually combining to drive them into a protracted and cataclysmic struggle.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1841767387?v=glance   (676 words)

  
 Jedi Council Forums - The War to End All Wars. Trek Wars
Jedi Council Forums - The War to End All Wars.
Date Posted: 12/9/01 4:40am Subject: The War to End All Wars.
Two large, sleek vessels slipped silently through the vaccuum of space, passing between a burning orb of a star, and the dim red glow of a nearby planet.
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