Which of these inferences about the Great War is most strongly supported by the following passage (paragraph 6)?
The Great War, as it was called at the time, was brutal. Young soldiers had grown up on stories of glorious charges into the enemy line to fight
with rifles and bayonets. They were unprepared for machine guns
and mustard gas. They did not expect to spend weeks hiding in filthy trenches
while listening to the sounds of gunshots and explosions. By the end of the
war in 1919, 8.5 million soldiers were dead. More people were killed in
WWI than in every previous European conflict combined. The scale of the bloodshed
and destruction disillusioned a generation of artists and
thinkers who would be central to Modernism. The Central Powers, consisting
of the German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman Empires, had all
broken up. The Russian Empire also dissolved and was replaced by the Soviet Union.
Germany suffered two economic crises while trying to pay
reparations, which led to feelings of resentment. This fueled extremism, leading to
the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Second World War.
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A. Adolf Hitler was a notorious general during WWI.
B. Soldiers had expected war to be more valorous than what they actually encountered.
OC
. Soldiers used a type of
knife called a bayonet to inflict great casualties.
OD. WWI
killed more people than any other war after 1900.