Answer to Question #244314 in History for Mimi

Question

Explain why was the first world war a global conflict refer to gerwath ,r and E.manela the great war as global war : imperial conflict and the reconfiguration of world order 1911-1923

Answer 1

The fact that the First World War was a global war was itself the product of a global order, shaped by the European great powers and held together by an embryonic economic system. The title ‘the world war’ was a statement about its importance, not a statement about its geographical scale.