Why Did World War I Transform Western Civilization So Profoundly

question 77

Multiple Choice

Why did World War I transform Western civilization so profoundly?

• A) The bitter war between the anti-militaristic neighbors of Germany, France, and Britain shook the popular conceptions of politics deeply.
• B) Because a vast majority of the victims were civilians, the war forever changed public perception of the acceptability of military conflict.
• C) As a global conflict between socialist nations and monarchies, the war signaled the ideological divisions of the twentieth century.
• D) The war generated an economic boom in Europe and the United States that marked the beginning of the so-called Roaring Twenties.
• E) The mass slaughter of World War I was hard to reconcile with the claim that Western civilization was the triumph of reason and progress.