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They also called it "War neurosis" in WWI.
Before that, "Soldiers Heart" (civil war, franco-prussian war). "Battle Fatigue" and "Combat Stress Reaction" in WWII straight on through to Viet(fucking)nam.
These are all the same thing, just a matter of marketing and awareness/knowledge.
So you could say, "Soldiers in WWII didn't get PTSD", and you'd be technically correct, but only because it wasn't officially called that until 1980. Sort of like saying "people didn't get autism before vaccines"...sure, because those people were "slow", "different", "r*****ed", etc. Gay men were "confirmed bachelors".
They change the wording so they can act like these are all new phenomena and a sign of weak-willed people. It's just propaganda. That, and we have new understanding of these things...but they (the politicians, that is) latch onto that to effectively gaslight us.