Encyclopaedia of Conflicts Since World War II

Was it not the Great War of 1914‐1918 that was supposed to be the war to end wars? Until, that is, it was renamed the First World War on the outbreak of the Second World War, whose duration eclipsed it by two years. The second time around, the United Nations, forged by the combatant Allied powers in the heat of war, would avoid the mistakes of the League of Nations of the inter‐war years, and ensure that a co‐ordinated course of action, based on the harmony of the three great victorious powers, would guarantee universal peace. Of course, it failed...