Most Europeans Believed That the Great War Would

Most Europeans believed that the Great War would

A) be much like the American Civil War in length.
B) be an exciting, emotional release from the otherwise dull and boring existence of mass society.
C) last for years and create a rousing state of perpetual heroics as proclaimed by Nietzsche in his writings on the "superman."
D) ultimately bring about the unification of Europe in one centralized and highly militarized government.
E) result in a new balance of power throughout all of Western civilization.