# WWI-Could it Have Been Stopped?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 25, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwi-could-it-have-been-stopped/362101 "2006-06-25T17:34:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwi-could-it-have-been-stopped/362101/41 "2006-06-27T23:24:29Z")

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[QUOTE=glee]  
As somebody once said “Those who do not learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them”  
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[George Santayana.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santayana)

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwi-could-it-have-been-stopped/362101/42 "2006-06-27T23:30:58Z")

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[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus]  
As an aside, I have always thought (well not always) that WWI has gotten short shrift in terms of importnat events, eclipsed by WWII. Of course WWII had the comic book villian Nazis, the atomic bomb, lots of movies etc. But the modern world was forged during WWI, including modern nations of Europe, the advent of air warfare, chemical warfare, the machine gun, etc. The incredible class system that infiltrated most notably the British military started to break down.  
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And WWI also signaled the beginning of the end of the European world-hegemony that had lasted since 1492.

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**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwi-could-it-have-been-stopped/362101/43 "2006-06-27T23:39:00Z")

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So, at least there was a silver lining, ehe? 😉

-XT

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**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwi-could-it-have-been-stopped/362101/44 "2006-06-29T16:43:44Z")

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[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]  
You’d think we would have learned a lesson about that kind of thinking . . .  
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What “we” are we refering to here?

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