WW-1 at the front was particularly brutal in comparison to the past in that millions died in a mechanical meat grinder and not a heck of a lot of territory chan

WW-1 at the front was particularly brutal in comparison to the past in that millions died in a mechanical meat grinder and not a heck of a lot of territory changed hands. It also made the rest of the world look at Europeans (who until then were undisputed masters of virtually the entire world) as being, well, kind of stupid; ultimately unraveling the various political systems that had run the West since post-Roman days. Western civilization more or less died in 1917. We've been dealing with the consequences of this ever since then.