How Did Ww1 Change The Course Of The 20th Century

World War I was not the the most destructive war, or the “Great War,” as some have called it, and was definitely not the war to end all wars, but it was the war to change how people viewed the world in the 20th Century. The declaration of war brought enthusiasm and excitement into people’s hearts as waves of nationalism moved across Europe. World War I, which began in 1914, was thought to be a “rapid war that would and within the few months, likely by Christmas” with relatively few casualties. That, however, did not happen as fighting did not stop until 1918. In the short span of four years, shock and disbelief loomed over not just the soldiers coming back home from the battlefield, but citizens that once welcomed war. WWI changed how people

Fear, written by Gabriel Chevallier, was a novel based off his experiences on the front lines of WWI, in which we see through the eyes of a rebellious hero, Dartemont, as he describes the grisly and painful realities of these advancements on modern warfare. Gone were the days of the glorifying war to being “edifying, purifying, and redemptive.” People became wary of war and even wanted to forget the atrocities that they had let occur. This paper will discuss why people had a prideful attitude to war, the presumptions people had about war prior to the start of WWI, and what were the actual realities of a modern technologies on the battlefield. WWI was marketed to civilians as a quick war that would ultimately end in a matter of months.When nations started declaring war declaring war people got excited at the idea that they will defeat their enemies and uphold their honor. In France, no one could keep still as adrenaline and excitement fill the streets and engulfed everyone from all aspects of the population. The French people bought into the idea that France was the best and would come out