The Christmas Truce

　World WarⅠ,/which was also called the Great War,/was a terrible event.// It started in the summer of 1914/and continued until November 1918/— over four long years.// It was fought in Europe/between the Allied Powers,/made up mostly of British, French and Russian armies,/and the Central Powers,/which included soldiers from Germany, the Austria-Hungary Empire, Turkey and Bulgaria.//
　In the beginning,/many of the countries believed/the war would end quickly.// Each army thought/that their side would win.// Most soldiers hoped/they would be home for Christmas.// But they were wrong.// At the end of 1914,/after five months of bloody fighting,/tens of thousands of people had died.// And the war had a long way to go.//