World War One was called the "Great War" and the "War to end all wars" by many of its proponents and supporters.  May people believed that the Great War (at the time there was no need to delineate between the first and second wars) was going to be the once conflict that would end war for all time.  They believed that it would have such a widespread impact on Europe that there would be no need for war ever again.

Many of these feelings were driven from a belief that this war would have the power to settle all conflicts, and set things right for all time to come so that conflict would no longer be needed.  Many of these sentiments were rooted in the new technologies developed and employed before and during the war.  There were many inventions developed during the war, both as weapons of war, and as tools to help save lives.

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