Guided Reading 23-2
Before 1914, many political leaders thought war in Europe could be (1)_____________________. Government (2) _____________________ had worked in stirring national hatreds before the war. In August 1914, most people seemed genuinely convinced that their nation’s cause was (3) _____________________.
The German Schlieffen Plan called for the German army to sweep around (4) _____________________ and surround most of the French army. The German advance was halted at (5) _____________________. The war quickly turned into a (6) _____________________. The unexpected development of (7) _____________________ on the Western Front baffled military leaders. In 10 months at (8) _____________________, France, in 1916, seven hundred thousand men lost their lives over a few miles of land. By the end of 1915 (9) _____________________ began to be used to attack ground targets.
The Ottoman Empire came into the war on the side of (10) _____________________, prompting the Allies to declare war on them as well. By 1917, that war that had started in Europe had truly become a (11) _____________________. The Allies took advantage of the war to seize German (12) _____________________ in the rest of the world. The United States tried to remain neutral, but unrestricted (13) _____________________ warfare by the Germans brought America into the war in 1917.
World War I affected the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, however remote they might be from the (14) _____________________. (15) _____________________ regimes such as Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary relied on force to subdue their populations. In some countries, the role played by women in wartime economies had a (16) _____________________ impact on the women’s movement for social and political (17) _____________________.