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esc@piefed.social@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
First world war wasn’t named as such before the second one, and it wasn’t characterized just by military action happening everywhere, but by absolute number of casualties and scale of it. Same with the second one.
7 years war took maybe a million lives, while battles for gallipolli, ypres, lviv, somme, etc. etc. took anywhere from 500k to 1.2m each.
AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
There are written recording of the first world war being called the first from 1920, but yes it wasn’t very common.
esc@piefed.social@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Interesting, did they call it world war 1 or just world war?
AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
There is a book caller "The First World War 1914–1918. Personal Experiences" published 1920. So number included
esc@piefed.social@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Optimistic. Thanks, will look it up.