INDEX
Reading edition
Adrianople, taken, 65.
Africa, war in, 90-91.
Aircraft, 104, 109, 119-120, 153-154.
Aisne, battle of, 81.
Albania, 23-24, 59-65, 148.
Albanians, 62.
Allenby, General, 126, 148.
Allies, 75.
Alsace-Lorraine, 48-50, 13, 28;
Wilson on, 175.
Americans, see United States.
Amiens, threatened, 143.
Antwerp,
location, 30; captured, 81, 104.
Arbitration, 43.
Argentina, "spurlos versenkt, 133.
Armaments, 36, 41-42, 45.
Armed neutrality, 131.
Armenia, 110.
Australia, 22, 89.
Austria, 12, 15-16.
see Austria-Hungary.
Austria-Hungary,
before the war, 15-17; Balkan ambitions, 52, 63; Triple Alliance, 56-57; backs Turkey, 63, 65; trouble with Serbia, 68-73; precipitates the war, 70, 72; in the war, 84-87, 97-99, 112-114, 122-123, 127-128, 147, 149; Wilson on, 176.
Bagdad, taken, 125.
Balkan states, 23-24, 52-53, 59-66;
races in, 59-62; in the war, see Serbia, Bulgaria, Roumania; Wilson on, 177.
Balkan Wars, 64-65.
Baltic provinces, 30, 137.
Battles:
Marne, 81; Aisne, 81; Flanders, 82; Tannenberg, 85; Ypres, 95; Mazurian Lakes, 97; Verdun, 107; Somme, 108; Vimy Ridge, 118; Cambrai, 119; Picardy, 143; second Marne, 146; Piave, 147, 149.
Beatty, Admiral, 114.
Belgium,
before the war, 18, 30; neutrality; 19, 78; in the war, 78-80, 149; German occupation of, 82-84; Wilson on, 175.
Belgrade, taken, 87.
Berlin-Bagdad Railway, 32, 125.
Bernstorff, Count von, 128-129.
Bessarabia, 138.
Bismarck, 12-13.
Boers, in the war, 90.
Bolsheviki, 123-125, 135-140.
Bosnia, 69.
Bosporus, 51.
Botha, General, 90.
Brazil, enters the war, 133.
Brest-Litovsk, peace of, 136-138.
Brusilov, General, 112.
Bukowina, invaded, 112.
Bulgaria,
before the war, 23-24, 59-65; Balkan wars, 64-65; in the Great War, 97-98, 113, 147-148; surrenders, 148.
Bulgars, 61.
Calais, threatened, 81.
Cambrai,
battle of, 119; taken, 150.
Canada, 22, 118, 119.
Casement, Sir Roger, 117.
Cavour, Count, 17-18.
Central Powers, 65.
Chemin des Dames, 119.
Chile, naval battle near, 93.
Colonies, 10;
Germany's desire for, 31, 54-55; Wilson on, 174.
Constantine, King, 98.
Constantinople, 51-52.
Courland, 137.
Czar, 23-24, 120-121.
Czecho-Slovaks, 139-140.
Damascus, taken, 148.
Dardanelles, 51, 96.
Wilson on, 178.
Democratic movements, 8, 121.
Der Tag, 67.
D'Esperey, General, 147.
Dewey, Admiral, 54.
Diaz, General, 149.
Dobrudja, 62, 113, 138.
Dublin, in rebellion, 117.
Duma, 120-121.
East Prussia, 30;
invaded, 85, 97.
Emden, cruise of, 92-93.
England, 21;
see Great Britain.
Erzerum, captured, 111.
Esthonia, 137.
Falkland Is., naval battle, 93.
Finland, 136-137.
Flame-thrower, 95.
Flanders, battles of, 82, 143.
Foch, General, 143-149.
Food and fuel control in U.S., 154-156.
France,
before the war, 19-20, 13; Triple Entente, 57-58; enters the war, 73-74; in the war, 77-84, 95, 107-109, 118-120, 141-150.
Francis Ferdinand, assassinated, 70.
Francis Joseph, 16.
Franco-Prussian War, 13, 20, 28-29.
Freedom of the seas, Wilson on, 172.
Galicia, in the war, 86, 97, 112, 122-123.
Gallipoli campaign, 96.
Garibaldi, 17.
Gas, used in warfare, 95, 142.
George, Lloyd, on Alsace-Lorraine, 48.
Gerard, Ambassador, 129.
German propaganda in U.S., 165-167.
Germany, before the war, 12-14;
why Germany wanted war, 27-34; German militarism, 34-37; opposition to peace movements, 39, 42-46; colonial ambitions, 31, 53-56; Triple Alliance, 56-57; backs Turkey, 63-65; preparations for Great War, 67-68; precipitates the war, 70, 72-75; in the war, 77-109, 113-150; treatment of occupied territory, 82-84; loses colonies, 89-91; navy, 37, 91-94, 101-103, 114-116, 128-130, 164; blockaded, 92, 100; aircraft, 104-105; peace offensive (1917, 1918), 135-138; new tactics (1918), 141-142; defeated, asks for peace, 149-150.
Gorizia, taken, 114.
Great Britain, before the war, 21-23;
colonies, 11, 22, 105; danger from Germany, 32, 37; Triple Entente, 58; efforts for peace, 72-73; enters the war, 74-75; army in France, 79-82, 95, 108-109, 118-119, 141-149; in Africa, 90; navy, 91-94; in Gallipoli, 96; in Mesopotamia, 111-112, 125; conscription, 116; in Palestine, 125-126, 148.
Great War, causes, 5, 27, 34, 48, 67;
declarations, 73; in 1914, 77; in 1915, 95; in 1916, 107; in 1917, 118; in 1918, 135; United States in, 130-133, 152; peace problems, 168.
Greece, before the war, 23-24, 59-65;
Balkan wars, 64-65; in the Great War, 98, 147.
Greeks, 62.
Grey, Sir Edward, 72.
Guynemer, French airman, 119.
Hague Conferences, 41-46.
Hague Conventions, 45.
Hague Peace Tribunal, 43-44.
Helgoland Bight, battle, 92.
Herzegovina, 69.
Hindenburg, von, General, 85, 97.
Hindenburg line, 118, 149.
Holy Allies, 8, 9.
Hungary, 15-16;
see Austria-Hungary.
Indemnity, 27, 29.
Industrial development of Europe, 9.
International law, 38-40, 45.
Ireland, rebellion in, 116-117.
Isonzo River, 114.
Italia Irredenta; Wilson on.
Italy, before the war, 17-18;
in Triple Alliance, 57; refuses to support Austria against Serbia, 69; neutral, 75; in the war, 99, 114, 127-128, 147, 149.
Japan, in the war, 89-90, 140.
Jerusalem, captured, 126.
Joffre, General, 81.
Jugo-Slavs, 61, 69-70.
Junkers, 14, 30-31.
Jutland, battle of, 114-115.
Kaiser, 13, 14.
Kaiser's battle, 141.
Kerensky, Alexander, 122-123.
Kiaochow, 90.
Kiel Canal, 68.
Kitchener, Lord, prediction of, 105.
Knights of Columbus, 160.
Kultur, 34.
Kut-el-Amara, 111-112, 125.
Laon, taken, 150.
League of Nations, Wilson's proposal, 179.
League of Three Emperors, 56.
Lemberg, taken, 86, 97.
Lenine, 123, 136.
Lens, taken, 149.
Liberty motor, 154.
Liege, taken, 79.
Lille, taken, 81, 149.
Lithuania, 137.
Little Russians, 136.
Livonia, 137.
Loans, U.S., 158.
London, air raids, 104.
Lorraine, 28;
see Alsace-Lorraine.
Lusitania, sunk, 102-103.
Luxemburg, 78, 79.
Macedonia, 61-65.
Maps: Europe, 6;
Berlin-Bagdad railway, 32; Alsace-Lorraine, 49; Italia Irredenta, 50; Balkan States, 60; Western Front in 1914, 80; Eastern Front in 1914, 85; German colonies and early naval engagements, 88; Turkey, 110; European Fronts in 1917, 124; Naval War Zones in 1917, 128; Brest-Litovsk Treaty, 137; Western Front in 1918, 145.
Marne, battles of the, 81, 146.
Mazurian Lakes, battle of, 97.
Mesopotamia, war in, 111, 125.
Militarism, 34.
Mine fields, in the sea, 91-92.
Mittel-Europa, 64.
Montenegro, 59, 61, 64, 98.
Morocco question, 55.
Munitions, ministers of, 105.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 7, 19.
Napoleon III, 20.
National aspirations, 9, 15, 117, 136-137.
Nations, community of, 38-39, 179.
Naval operations, 91-94, 100-103, 114-116, 129, 152, 163-165.
Neutral trade, 100-102.
Nicholas II, 40, 121.
Palestine, war in, 125-126, 148.
Pan-Germanists, 31.
Pan-Serbism, 70-71.
Pan-Slavic movement, 52.
Paris, threatened, 77-81, 142, 144.
Passchendaele Ridge, taken, 119.
Peace,
movement, 40; proposed by Germany, 135-138, 150; with Russia and Roumania, 137-138; questions of the coming peace, 168-179.
Pershing, General, 143, 146.
Persius, Captain, quoted, 129.
Pétain, General, 108.
Petrograd, revolutions at, 121, 123.
Philippines, German fleet at, 54.
Piave River, 128, 147, 149.
Picardy, battle of, 143.
Poison gas, 95, 142.
Poland,
in the war, 84-86, 97, 137; Wilson on, 178.
Potsdam conference, 70.
Propaganda, 165-167.
Prussia, 12-14, 27, 28, 35;
see Germany.
Przemysl, 86, 97.
Red Cross, 160.
Rheims, bombarded, 119.
Riga, taken, 124.
Roosevelt, President, 45, 55.
Roumania,
before the war, 23-24, 59-65; Balkan War, 65; in the Great War, 112-113; peace, 138.
Roumanians, 62.
Russia,
before the war, 24-25; Balkan ambitions, 51-53, 63; Triple Entente, 57-58; enters war, 73-74; in the war, 84-89, 97, 110-112, 122-124, 136; Revolution, 120-123; Bolsheviki control, 123; separate peace, 135-138; Allied intervention, 138-140; Wilson on, 174.
St. Quentin, taken, 149.
Salonica, 65;
Allied army at, 98, 147.
Samoan difficulty, 54.
Schools, work of, 160.
"Scrap of paper," 78.
Serajevo, assassination at, 70.
Serbia,
before the war, 23-34, 59-65; Balkan wars, 64-65; trouble with Austria-Hungary, 69-73; in the war, 87, 98, 147-148; Wilson on, 177.
Serbs, 61, 68-70.
Shipbuilding in U.S., 157.
Shock troops, 142.
Siberia, in the war, 139-140.
Sick man of Europe, 63.
Sinn Fein rebellion, 116-117.
Slavs, 52, 61.
Smuts, General, 90.
Socialists, in Russia, 122-123.
Somme, battle of the, 108-109.
South Africa, 22, 90-91.
Spanish America, in the war, 133.
Spurlos versenkt, 133.
Submarine warfare, 101-103, 115-116, 128-130, 163-165.
Survival of the Fittest, 33.
Sussex, torpedoed, 115-116.
Syria, war in, 148-149.
Tanks, 109, 119, 146.
Tannenberg, battle of, 85.
Tirpitz, von, Admiral, 101.
Townshend, General, 111-112.
Transylvania, 112-113.
Trebizond, captured, 111.
Trench warfare, 82.
Trentino, 51, 114.
Trieste, 16, 51, 114, 127.
Triple Alliance, 56-57.
Triple Entente, 57-58.
Trotzky, 123-136.
Turkey,
before the war, 23-24, 52, 53, 62; Balkan wars, 64-65; enters the war, 87-89; in the war, 96, 110-112, 125-126, 138, 148; Wilson on, 178.
U-boats, 101;
see Submarine warfare.
Ukrainia, 136-137.
United States,
danger from Germany, 54-55; neutral trade, 100, 102, 131; protests against submarining, 103, 116, 129; enters the war, 130-133; army in France, 145-147, 150, 163; in the war, 152-167; navy, 152; raising an army, 152-153; aircraft, 153; food control, 154; fuel control, 155; transportation control, 156; shipbuilding, 157; seizes German ships, 158; paying for the war, 158-159; Red Cross, etc., 160; rise in prices, 161; German propaganda, 165-167; peace problems, 168-171.
Venezuela, Germany in, 55.
Venice, threatened, 128.
Verdun, battle of, 107-108.
Victor Emmanuel, 18.
Vienna, conference of 1815, 7.
Vimy Ridge, taken, 118.
War, see Great War;
war as a profitable business, 27.
War Savings Stamps, 159.
Wilson, President,
Lusitania case, 103; Sussex case, 116; breaks with Germany, 128-129; asks for declaration of war, 132; fourteen-point address (Jan. 8, 1918), 135, 171-179; peace notes of 1918, 150.
Wounded, care of, 169.
Young Men's Christian Association, 160.
Ypres, battle of, 95.
Yser River, 82.
Zeppelins, 104.
Zimmerman note, 130.