I’ll die on a hill that says that the First World War was more historically significant than the second.

Just about everything that’s giving us issues on the world stage today is a result of decisions during, and after, the armistice; from the Sykes-Picot agreement fundamentally creating the current middle east crisis, to the American rise to dominance in it’s wake because the vast majority of wealth transferred there as each European country came to them for loans to arm and supply their men.

By the time the war ended, The entire economic centre of the world had changed from Europe to America.