Beschrijving

H. G. Wells published a number of articles in London newspapers that subsequently appeared as a book entitled The War That Will End War. Wells blamed the Central Powers for the coming of the war and argued that only the defeat of German militarism could bring about an end to war. Wells used the shorter form of the phrase, the war to end war. In later years, the term became associated with Woodrow Wilson, despite the fact that Wilson is only known to have used the phrase once. Along with the phrase make the world safe for democracy, it embodied Wilson’s conviction that U.S. entry into the war was necessary to preserve human freedom.