AHC: Have WWI be called the 5 Years' War

Been reading about WWI recently?

Anyways, my professor recently mentioned that "most people" around this time expected the war to last until 1919; the collapse of the German army in the fall of 1918 was unexpected. He stated that America's entry into the war rejuvenated the western allies, who were on there last legs at this point, and had the opposite effect in the German ranks. I know there are a lot of people (particularly British and French people ;)) who would disagree with that characterization of the USA's importance, but I think it's valid.

So let's think about those "America doesn't get involved" timelines. Say unrestricted submarine warfare is stopped after the British start convoying, and America backs down from threatening war. In that scenario I could easily see the war lasting through 1919. The main hurdle is finding a way to keep the German people from revolting due to food shortages. But extending the war through 1919 is certainly feasible.
 
Also interesting to note is that British India was scheduled to take over command of the Middle Eastern front in 1919, with all the implications that follow. This could introduce some very interesting butterflies in India.....

On the topic of having the actual name be the Five Years War, I suppose if it resulted in no real changes....though really the experiences in that war turned it into something of a different monster.
 
"X Years' War" seems like a war-naming convention that died after the Eighteenth Century, though I'm not sure.
 
Challenge: Have OTL's World War I be called the 5 Years' War.
Cheap, easy way out- the peace wasn't signed until the middle of 1919, so the war did, technically, last five years. Simply have the name catch on.

Alternatively, have some post-armistice fighting or riots break out for a month or so in 1919 that are pout down by Allied forces; alternatively, have significant low-intensity violence on the Eastern Front continue into 1919. The Versailles treaty is harsher, so WWII is butterflied away into, at most, a series of very violent but much smaller conflicts, so there's no pressing urge to call it a 'world war' (the term was around during the interwar years but arguably didn't gain real prominence until the second one started). It ends up being called the five years' war in most textbooks.

:)
 
Maybe have the war end on 28 July 1919 for symbolic purposes, then the war will have lasted exactly 5 years and the name might have caught on
 
I think that's the only way otherwise with a name as prosaic as the 5 Years War it would probably be a less notable (read bloody and destructive) conflict
 
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