<Tab/>World War I (1914-1920) was the war that Europe expected. It was the war that would "end all wars." Europe took up 7% of the earth's surface and dominated a large amount of the world's trade. They were actively exporting both its goods and culture all over the globe. Europe assumed they could discover the rules that governed the world and use them to fashion a better civilization. No one expected or wanted a general war, but liberal values served the goals of limited war, just as they have justified imperial conquest. Science and technology served as the interests o…
