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It could be the piles of millions of meaningless dead and scorched areas of no-man's land, or just the dead.
Yes, once World War I began, the progressive era came to a grinding halt. President Wilson's words stating the war would make the world safer for democracy didn't ring true when the horrors of the war itself seemed so out of hand.
The outbreak of WW1 turned the attention the American people and resources of the federal government to emergency wartime measures and Progressivism essentially ended.
if you mean presidents who were war heroes before being presidents George Washington is the easiest to name. also Andrew Jackson who also fought in the American revolution(democrat). Ulysses s. grant who fought and won the u.s civil war(republican). Theodore roosevelt who fought in the spanish-American war(republican).Dwight d. eisenhower fought in world war II(republican). george w bush fought in Vietnam(republican). that's all i can name since my fingers are bleeding now