Guided reading Activity 23-2 : World War I

(15)

Authoritarian

(4)

Paris

(9)

airplanes

(1)

impractical

(3)

just

(16)

positive

(2)

propaganda

(6)

stalemate

(5)

the First Battle of the Marne

(8)

verdun

(14)

battlefields

(11)

world conflict

(7)

trenchs

(13)

unrestricted

(10)

central powers

(12)

colonies

(17)

emancipation

Fill in the blanks as you read Section 2.

Before 1914, many political leaders thought war to be (1). Government (2) had worked in stirring up 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 last their lives over a few miles of land. By the end of 1915, (9) began to be used in war for the first time. Bulgaria came into the war on the side of the (10), and the Allies declared war on the Ottoman Empire. By 1917, the 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 (13) submarine 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).