Why is WW1 Called the Great War?

by SpareRibs03

I think that WW2 the most studied, the war with the most deaths and so on...

elos_

Because it was named such before WWII happened :)

Regardless "most interesting" is a very subjective term.

bamadeo

It was called 'the Great War' before WW2 happened, in the 20's and 30's, people didn't imagine that a war on an even larger scale could happen.