Why was ww1 called the great war?

Answer 1

The Great War

It is because no other war until then had had such an impact on the world. It was the first war to affect all of the major nations of Europe and the world. It took many lives and changed the lives of millions more.

And it was "great" in the sense of scale : large, or huge, a construction which remains more common in Britain than in the US, where "great" has come to have connotations of something favorable. It was a huge war, involving a large number of nations and armies, including five empires with their associated colonies and commonwealth states.

Everyone certainly hoped that if the Great War could somehow be brought to a close, and that nothing like it would ever happen again.

The war obviously was not called World War 1 at the time because at the time no one knew there would be another "world war" a generation later. Some began to refer to it as "the World War", however, and between 1944 and 1946 the numeration was added. World War 2 was referred to as "the current world war" or "the latest world war."

Answer 2

Because they didn't know there was going to be another war so at the time it was called the great war.

Answer 3

world war s called as the great as it was the first war in which all 3 ways air,land and water were used . this war also had a great impact on people and the resources available in the world.

Answer 4

Because we almost lost but we won because we had 55 men left

Answer 5

because it was a great tragody and made realy bad thing to the country

Answer 6

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