WWI

1. World War I.

WWI

abbreviation for

1. World War One

Example Sentences

This was the second Red Scare, the first having occurred in the years after WWI, but the focus on expelling people from the government, including the military, on thin suspicions of disloyalty was a specialty of McCarthy and Cohn.

From Salon

It assumed its first form thanks to a German soldier named Albin Grau, who had served in the Serbian campaign of WWI, a yearlong invasion in which so many German soldiers were slaughtered that reinforcements arrived at a rate of 200,000 a month.

From Slate

During WWI, federal authorities placed 6,300 “enemy aliens” — many from Germany — into internment camps.

From Los Angeles Times

Trump also asked at one point who the "good guys" were in WWI.

From Salon

"During recurrent periods of nativist politics and/or at times of ideological extremism, opportunistic politicians have repeatedly use rhetoric demonizing entire groups of people – racial groups, German-Americans during WWI, liberals in the McCarthy era – so Donald Trump is replaying an old strategy," Skocpol said.

From Salon