After the Great War, hopes for a new spirit of internationalism soared in the 1920s.
And can anyone forget the tragic cost to America of their last great war?
The book disagrees with the view that it took the Great War to produce the Great Depression.
Murrow argued that those young Germans should not be punished for their elders' actions in the Great War.
So forget about chalking up the dismal economic performance of the Great War years, of all things to gold.
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Yes, and--to stretch the point quite a way--Stalin's Soviet Russia built marvelous subways and won a great war.
My Austrian great-grandfather had fought in the Great War and was no longer young when Anschluss came in 1938.
Morgan and spread to Europe and around the world during the Great War.
It took World War II to change the worldwide view that the Great War of 1914-1918 was actually World War I.
The Great War of the Eggplant is a 1994 myth-making series that chronicles the impact of a controversial vegetable from the East.
It is that life that is the core of this saga, set in the years prior to, and through, the Great War.
Lee earned him the tag "butcher, " an epithet that took on even more sinister tones given the ghastly losses in the Great War.
Among the people of the Great War period, one senses that there really were illusions to be lost and faiths to be shattered.
Decca and other companies built the first portable record players for the trenches of the Great War and created an explosive domestic market.
The world remembers the Great War for the supreme pointlessness with which it slaughtered an entire generation of British, French, German and other combatants.
Crews of British ships during the Great War were instructed to ram all submarines on sight, without checking to see which side they belonged to.
Britain had in recent memory passed through two wars the Boer war and the Great War that had shown that swathes of its population were, literally, unfit to fight.
"It reversed the Idea of Progress, " writes the literary historian Paul Fussell in "The Great War and Modern Memory, " the single best account of the war's cultural impact.
Following the Great Depression, more than 6 million women joined the workforce, clocking in at shipyards, lumber mills and foundries, and their production helped us win the Great War.
Seldom, if ever, said the Literary Digest in 1920, have the victors in a great war left the punishment of the defeated leaders in the hands of their own people.
Porco Rosso, a hard-bitten veteran, insists that all the good fliers died in the Great War and suspects that God transformed him into a pig-man to punish him for surviving it.
The turning point was the decision taken on January 30th 1933 when Field Marshal Hindenburg, hero of the Great War, called Adolf Hitler, villain of the next, to be German Chancellor.
Some have also objected to the use of Stalin's name again, worried about what they see as creeping attempts under President Vladimir Putin's rule to portray Stalin as a great war leader.
It was service in the German army, not the Austrian, that prepared him for his calling, to turn the Great War into the first world war by dint of starting a second.
"Thirty men went from Catwick to the Great War and thirty came back, though one left an arm behind, " he wrote of one village in a volume on the East Riding of Yorkshire.
For the first time since the eighteen-seventies, Japan has a serious Asian rival, and politicians on both sides of the East China Sea are still picking at the wounds of the last great war.
When the Great War finished, politicians struggled to marry a battle-scarred generation with a penchant for gambling with the genteel, traditional values of a society that was otherwise untouched by the carnage of war.
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Prior to filming The Awakening, Hall read Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That, The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War by Juliet Nicholson and "a lot of war poetry".
Only a few years after the Great War turned the United States into a world power, he set out to shrink the size and reach of its government, to hark back instead of race forward.
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