Excerpted and modified from Leaving World War II Behind
“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once, ‘The Unnecessary War.’ There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle.” —Winston Churchill[i]
World War II grew out of World War I, and almost nobody tries to argue that World War I was just or glorious. By behaving more