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* [[Crying Wolf]]: A lot of people did not take reports of German rearmament or the [[World War Two]] Holocaust seriously because the last generation was jaded from exaggerated propaganda about the brutality of the enemy in this war.
** The Holocaust started well after World War II began. Also, in addition to a jaded populace, the British government knew that war with Germany would be, at best, a [[Pyrrhic Victory]] (They did lose their superpower status in the end of World War II, so their fears were justified).
* [[Dawn of an Era]]: A rather dark example, as the war and its aftermath would decisively shape the modern world as we know it todau.
* [[Disaster Dominoes]]: How that war was triggered. And arguably what the war's end [[World War II|eventually triggers]].
* [[Earth Is a Battlefield]]: Although it's mostly known for fighting in France, Belgium and Russia, there were battles all over the place. Technically, as they were Empires, the governments involved covered the entire earth, but the fighting was heavily concentrated on small fronts.
* [[The Empire]]: Several of them, and some of those empires ceased to exist because of this war. Which leads to...
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** It is certain that a good number of the Armenians and Pontic Greeks on the campaign were spies for the Russians (though they were ironically outnumbered by the number of spies amongst the ethnic Turks the Russians had been cultivating since the 1870's) in part because of the Young Turk's savage reprisals against their entire communities for the actions of a handful of radicals. It is also certain that they did next to nothing in contributing to the Turkish defeat compared to the pure idiocy of Enver Pasha.
*** Ironically if the Ottoman army had invested more in helping the Germans fight rather than using much of their firearms and soldiers executing a [[Final Solution]] on their own citizens they may have stood more of a chance of winning. But, since they'd been massacring their Christian population on and off since the 1890's, they likely just saw their defeat by Russia as a good excuse to spread paranoia about all of them being traitors and finish them all off, regardless of how many actually were rooting for the other side. But one can hardly blame, for instance, the Armenians of the city of Van for holding out for the Russian army to liberate them while being put under a siege because they wouldn't let the Ottoman army march them into the Syrian desert to die.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The Treaty of Versailles. Especially the debate in the United States over its ratification. Anti-Treaty Republicans wanted compromise, especially in regards to President Woodrow Wilson's idea for the [[League of Nations]]. Having spurned the Republicans at Versailles, Wilson found a firestorm of opposition waiting for him at home, and attempted to launch a nationwide campaign to rally support for the League. He overexerted himself campaigning and suffered a debilitating stroke that left the nation devoid of any real executive power at a critical juncture. The US failed to join the League as a result, upon hearing of its final defeat on the Senate floor, in one of his brief moments of coherence, Wilson is said to have commented "they have shamed us in the eyes of the world". The US failed to give its own critical involvement to the League of Nations, leaving it a weak and toothless organization that would largely prove impotent when faced against aggressive and ambitious dictators willing to flaunt international law
** There's also a far-reaching incident that happened with Wilson while he was eating at a restaurant. A Vietnamese waiter came up to him and wanted to talk to him about French Indochina and the possibility of its independence from France. Wilson brushed him off. The waiter's name? [[wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh|Ho Chi Minh]].
** The first recorded cases of Spanish flu were among soldiers in ''Kansas''. This makes it likely that American soldiers sent to the front lines were the ones who unknowingly carried it over to Europe, [[Typhoid Mary]] style.
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*** "Schmidt" became "Smith", "Schneider" became "Snider" (why not "Taylor"? That's what it means, after all), "Huber" became "Hoover"...
* [[Pretext for War]]: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Despite mediator's attempting to stop the war.
* [[Rightful King Returns]]: Defied at the end of the war. The Allied powers and "Little Entente" made a point to ensure that the Habsburgs never regained power.
* [[Red Scare]]: The Trope codifier, as it saw the [[Red October|Bolsheviks came to power in Russia]] [[Old Shame|with the help of the Germans
* [[Redshirt Army]]: Everyone.
* [[Red Shirt Reporter]]: A very enthusiastic war reporter, [[Benito Mussolini]].
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* In the ''[[Command & Conquer: Tiberium]]'' series, [[Biblical Bad Guy|Kane]]'s [[State Sec|Black Hand]] is suggested to be the very same organization that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
* ''[[Verdun]]'', a first-person MMO shooter in the style of the ''[[Battlefield]]'' games is not only named after the infamous Battle of Verdun but also aims to be as authentic and realistic to the time period. [[War Is Hell]] [[Scenery Gorn|and all]].
* The upcoming ''[[Battlefield]] 1'' is stated to be set during the Great War. Covering not only the Western Front but every known theatre of the conflict, which is in part meant to debunk the usual stereotypes of the era.
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