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First World War

First World War

noun

  1. another name for World War I

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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As the poet William Butler Yeats observed after the end of the First World War, the center is not holding, while the best lack all conviction.

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She said she attend the event to "remember all those who lost their lives during the First World War and in subsequent conflicts".

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Tuchman’s book describes how the world’s great powers, through a series of misunderstandings, stumbled into the First World War.

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Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to jail in 1918 for speaking out against the First World War.

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It was used during the First World War to sanction aristocrats who had UK titles but were fighting in the German army.

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