World War I

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The paper explains how World War I released destructive energies that would plague the world for the duration of the 20th century. The paper includes the argument that some positive transformations, particularly intellectual and social, also resulted.

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"World War I, billed "The War to End all Wars," turned out to be anything but that. Of the million estimated troops mobilized by the Central and Allied troops, half of these had been either killed or wounded. Called by diplomat and historian George Keenan, "the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century," the Great War would in the wake of this unprecedented carnage, forever alter the socio-cultural composition of American and European society."

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