The correct answer is A) They were confident and believed the war would end quickly.
The view of many European soldiers as the fighting began in World War I was "They were confident and believed the war would end quickly."
But that was not the case. Worl War 1 started in 1914 after Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated. The Central Powers Fight the Triple Entente. The Central Powers was the alliance formed by Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. The Triple Entente was the alliance formed by France, Great Britain, and Russia. It was a bloody war that ended until 1918, killing millions of soldiers and civilians.
