Use the language of catalyst or accelerant, not sole cause.
This is the chapter's bounded correction to a familiar wartime-causation narrative.
Szymanski concludes that World War I accelerated an already advanced prohibition campaign and altered political timing, but did not create the movement or make national Prohibition inevitable; some wartime experiences could also weaken dry sentiment.
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Myth 4 — World War I as catalyst
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