Succession states, frontiers of, 462. Sudan crisis, the, 149.
Suez Canal, control acquired by Great Britain, 228.
Suffrage, in Great Britain, 20, 32; in Aus- tralia, 48; in New Zealand, 48; in con- tinental Europe, 52-88; in France, 58; in Italy, 67; in Portugal, 72; in Switzer- land, 73, 75; in Norway, 86; in Soviet Russia, 537; in Austria, 587; extension of, 638, 664, 672. See also Govern-
Sun Yat-sen, 192, 674. Supreme Council, of Paris Conference, 443.
Sweden, neutrality in World War, 82;
account of, 84-88; the Aaland islands, 505, 674; in League of Nations, 631. Switzerland, 73-75, 672; Europe's model republic, 73; economic progress of Switzerland, 74; the problem of na- tional unity, 74; Swiss democracy, 75; the referendum and the popular as- sembly, 75.
Syndicalism, in continental Europe, 56. Synthetic compounds, 703. Synthetic foods and fibres, 706. Syria, rebellion in, 662.
Taff Vale decision, the, 29.
Takahira, Japanese representative at Portsmouth, 188.
Takamine, isolates adrenalin, 704. Talaat Pasha, 326, 407. Tannenberg, battle of, 310. Tariff tendencies, in British Empire, 647. Taxation, in Great Britain, 648. Tchaikowsky, head of North Russian government at Archangel, 521, 523. Tcheidze, replaced by Trotsky, 380. Tchernov, President of Russian Constitu- ent Assembly, 382, 521. Tchitcherin, George, 541.
Temperance reform, in Great Britain, 33. Terrorism, in Russia, 129, 530, 531, 533. Teschen affair, the, 463.
Third International, the, 519. Thomas, Albert, 500.
Togo, Admiral, 184, 186.
Townshend, General, 325, 407.
Scandinavian, 82. See also Economic conditions.
Trades Disputes Act, the, 29. Trades-unionism, in Great Britain, 28; growth of, 642. Transvaal, the, 24. Transylvania, 473. Trepoff, General, 127. Trianon Treaty, the, 471. Triple Alliance, the, 243, 252. Triple Entente, becomes an alliance, 283; advantages in World War, 286. Tripoli, Italy in, 228.
Tropics, Europe in the, 133-66; the roots of imperialism, 133; settlement col- onies and colonies of exploitation, 134; value of the tropics, 135; "sugar and spice and everything nice," 135; fruits and copra, 135; rubber and other forest products, 136; cotton and hemp, 136; problems of tropical colonization, 136; tropical diseases, 137; the war against malaria and yellow fever, 137; the transportation problem, 138; Africa, 138-53; India, 154-61; Ceylon, 161; Straits Settlements and Malay States, 161; Borneo and New Guinea, 161; French Indo-China, 161; Siam, the "Land of the White Elephant," 162; the Dutch East Indies, 162; modern Java, 163; outlying parts of Nether- lands-India, 164; the partition of the Pacific, 164; British Oceania, 164; French and German possessions, 164; American Oceania, 165; Condomin- ium: Samoa and the New Hebrides, 165; problems of the Pacific area, 166. Trotsky, Leon, 380, 381, 383, 385, 390, 540.
Tsushima Straits, battle of, 186. Tuan Chi-jui, 196. Tuan, Prince, 177. Tunis, annexed by France, 228. Turbine, steam, 697.
Turkey, account of, 202-05, 208, 211; frontier after second Balkan War, 237; declares for Germany in the World War, 283; strategic advantages of, 322; attempt to arouse a "holy war," 322; Gallipoli campaign, 323, 324; Balkan settlement under Peace of Paris, 477- 478, 589; a Moslem republic, 598. See also Balkans, Near East, and World War.
Turkish Macedonia, in its last phase, 230. Twenty-one demands, the, 199. Tzu Hsi, 177.
U.S.S.R., in Soviet Russia, 545.
U-boat, Germany's use of, 336-38, 349.
Trade, world, British, 15; Dutch, 79; Uganda, 151.
Venizelos, Greek Prime Minister, 219,
Ukraine, republic of the, 386, 545. Ulster problem, in Ireland, the, 41. Union of South Africa, 49. United States, in the Pacific, 164; entry into World War, 330-60; how Europe viewed America, 330; how America viewed Europe, 331; the freedom of the seas, 332; blockade and counter- blockade, 333; the submarine peril and cruiser raids, 335; the submarine versus the law, 336; America champions neu- tral rights, 336; the Lusitania affair, 337; continued U-boat raids, 338; the battle of Jutland, 339; tightening the blockade, 340; additional grievances against Germany, 340; the "Zimmer- mann note," 341; the Virgin Islands, 341; another German policy towards America, 341; a year of hesitation, 343; behind the scenes, 343; the election of 1916, 344; Wilson's offer of mediation, 344; the Entente Allies declare their program: the Central Powers refuse, 345; significance of the Entente peace terms, 346; the new weapon of nation- alism, 347; what did German silence conceal? 348; President Wilson's sec- ond appeal, 349; submarine war re- newed, 349; the crucial moment of the war, 350; "armed_neutrality," 352; war at last, 353; Congress responds, 353; building an army, 354; the "sin- ews of war," 355; the war administra- tion, 356; the American army in 1917, 357; quality of the American army, 358; work of the American navy, 359; contribution to the Entente, 405; Wil- son's Fourteen Points, 418, 421; atti- tude toward League of Nations, 511; rejects Treaty of Versailles, 512; con- Waldersee, Count, 179. ditionally approves Court of Interna-Wallachia, tional Justice. 512; refuses recognition to certain Baltic Republics, 530; Amer- ican relief in Soviet Russia, 553; re- fuses to recognize Soviet Russia, 561; rivalry with Great Britain in race for oil, 647; immigration, Italian, 663; the Washington Conference of 1921-22, 675; the doom of the battleship, 675; other phases of disarmament, 675; de- militarized zone in the Pacific, 676; the Four Power Pact, 676; agreements re- specting China, 676; the war debts question, 676; the compromise settle- ment, 677; the immigration question, 678; helping hands across the seas, 678.
Verdun campaign, the, 307. Versailles, treaty, 435; rejected by United States, 512. See also Peace of Paris.
Viborg Manifesto, the, 128. Vilna, mediation by the League of Na- tions, 505.
Vimy Ridge, capture of, 396. Virgin islands, the, 84, 341. Volga famine, the, 552. Ven Bernstorff, German ambassador to the United States, 342, 349, 352. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chan- cellor, 109, 110, 260, 275. Von Bissing, General, 348. Von Bülow, Prince Bernhard, 110. Von der Goltz, General, 325. Von der Lancken, Baron, 304. Von Hindenburg, Paul, 312, 320, 402, 602, 626.
Von Jagow, German Foreign Minister, 272, 288.
Upper Silesia, problem at Paris Confer- ence, 450; plebiscite, 506-08.
Vanderwelde, Emile, 78, 443.
Von Kapp, Wolfgang, 610. Von Ketteler, Baron, 178. Von Kluck, General, 299. Von Kühlmann, Richard, 384. Von Lettow-Vorbeck, General, 328. Von Ludendorff, General, 341, 349, 385, 402, 404, 414, 601, 621. Von Lüttwitz, General, 610. Von Mackensen, General, 313, 318, 320. Von Scheer, Admiral, 339. Von Seeckt, General, 622. Von Spee, Admiral, 335. Von Tirpitz, Admiral, 247, 342, 349. Von Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand, 707.
conquest in the World War,
War, attitude of League of Nations, 504. War debts, 661, 676.
War guilt, punishment for, 457. War issues, attitude of League of Na- tions, 513.
War prevention, under League of Na- tions, 495. Washington Conference, the, 169, 675. Webb, Sidney, 30, 657. Weimar assembly, the, 427. Weimar Constitution, the, 603. Welfare legislation, 54; in Great Britain, 32.
West Africa, the British in, 151. Weygand, General, 528. White, Henry, American delegate to Paris Peace Conference, 445. White versus Red, in Finland, 388. White Russia, 546.
Wilhelmina, Queen, 80. William II, German Kaiser, congratu- lates the Boers, 26; proposals to Tsar, 251; opposes British suggestion of a "naval holiday," 260; comment upon Serbia, 271; irritated by British sug- gestion of mediation between Austria- Hungary and Serbia, 275; desires a Mohammedan war against Great Brit- ain, 278; fury against Great Britain, 280; abdication of, 426; war guilt, 457. See also International relations, and World War.
William of Wied, Prince, 239, 593. Wilson, Woodrow, opposes "six-power loan" to China, 198; warns Germany upon submarine campaign, 338; policy of neutrality, 343; reëlected Presi- dent, 344; offer of mediation in the World War, 344; second appeal, 349; advocates armed neutrality, 352; war on Germany declared by United States, 353; war administration, 356; message to Soviet Russia, 304; request for statement of peace terms from bel- ligerents, 414; the Fourteen Points, 418, 421; at Paris Peace Conference, 438, 443, 444, 451; views of German lia- bility for reparations, 455; upon the Fiume controversy, 468; upon the Near Eastern question, 477; opposed by Senate upon League of Nations, 482, 511; approves draft of plan for League of Nations, 488. See also Peace of Paris, and World War. Wireless waves, 701. Wirth, Joseph, 602, 616. Witos, Premier of Poland, 528. Witte, Count Sergius, 129, 188, 251. Wojciechowski, Stanislas, President of Poland, 571.
World War, outbreak of, 269-88; Franz Ferdinand visits his "loyal city of Sarajevo," 269; the murder, 269; Aus- tria resolves on a punitive war, 270; Germany gives Austria-Hungary a free hand, 271; the ultimatum of July 23d, 272; Austria-Hungary begins the war, 273; Russia protests, 274; England proposes an international conference, 274; a divided mind in Germany at the critical hour, 275; the Russian mobili- zation, 276; Germany declares war on Russia and France, 276; why Germany turned against the west, 277; patriotic rally in France, 277; England warns Germany, 278; England between peace and war, 279; England declares war on Germany, 279; why Germany in- vaded Belgium, 280; the legal as- pect of Belgian neutrality, 281; why
England was interested in the German invasion of Belgium, 282; Japan, Por- tugal, and Montenegro enter the war, 282; the Triple Entente becomes an alliance, 283; Turkey and Bulgaria de- clare for Germany, 283; the position of Italy, 284; the most famous of the "secret treaties," 284; Italy joins the Allies, 285; Rumania hesitates between two opportunities, 285; advantages of the Entente Allies, 286; advantages of the Central Powers, 286; a summary of the evidence, 287.
World War, early campaigns, 289- 329; new type of war, 289; the armed nation, 290; mobilizing every one, 290; war socialism, 291; increasing ruthless- ness of war, 292; a war of engineers, 292; the war in the air, 293; the cav- alry of the air, 294; supercannon, 294; the man behind the gun, 295; continu- ous battle, 295; medical progress, 296; the first phase: the war of movement, 297; the battleline in eastern France, 298; the Belgian campaign, 298; the German advance on Paris, 298; the stand before Paris, 299; the battle of the Marne, 299; the race to the sea, 300; the siege of Antwerp, 301; what Germany won in the west, 301; the reign of terror in Belgium, 302; inci- dents of German rule, 302; German attempt to divide Belgium, 304; the deadlock of the western front, 304; the geology of trench war, 305; the 1915 campaign in Flanders; use of poison gas, 306; the Verdun campaign, 307; the Somme campaign, 308; significance of the "tank," 308; German victories in eastern Europe, 309; the Russian of- fensive of 1914, 309; the battle of Tan- nenberg, 310; the Galician campaign, 310; weakness of Russia's position in Galicia, 312; the battle of the Duna- jec, 313; the Russian offensive of 1916, 314; Poland, the Belgium of the east, 314; the German plan to create a Polish "buffer State," 315; the func- tion of Austria in the war, 316; the Al- pine campaign of Italy, 316; the Isonzo campaign, 317; the Austrian attack on northern Italy, 1916, 317; Bulgarian intervention dooms Serbia, 318; Greece refuses aid, 318; the Balkan campaign, 319; the Rumanian campaign, 320; the conquest of Wallachia, 320; results of the Rumanian campaign, 321; strate- gic advantages of Turkey: material and political, 322; Turkey's "holy war" meets with little response, 322; the Gallipoli campaign, 323, Turks hold
the Straits against the Allied fleet, 324; the British abandon the Gallipoli cam- paign, 324; the Mesopotamia cam- paign, 325; Russia's failure in Armenia, 326; Armenia: the massacre of a na- tion, 326; German losses in the Pacific, 327; stubborn resistance of German East Africa, 327; the Boer rebellion, 328; the balance sheet of war at the end of 1916, 328; American intervention in the war, 330-60; Russian campaigns of 1917, 361-94.
World War, closing years, 395-434; the western front in 1917, 395; failure of the Entente offensive of 1917, 396; "defeatism" in France, England, and Italy, 396; the Caporetto disaster, 398; a silver lining in the Orient, 399; the winter before the last campaign-in the South, 400; in the North, 400; pre- parations for the 1918 offensive, 400; March 21, 1918, 402; Thor's hammer strikes again, 402; the rally of the En- tente, 403; the counter-stroke on the Marne, 404; August 8, 1918, 404; the American contribution, 405; Brit- ish victories in the North, 406; in the meantime Bulgaria surrenders, 406; the Ottoman Empire makes peace, 407; Austria-Hungary ceases to exist, 408; the Declaration of Corfu, 409; foreign encouragement of nationalist revolution, 410; the birth of Czecho- Slovakia, 411; chaos in central Europe, 412; final victory in the West, 413; peace overtures in 1917, 414; the Reichstag resolution, 415; the Pope offers an olive branch, 415; Austrian efforts for peace, 416; labor's efforts for peace, 417; a British statement of peace terms, 418; the "Fourteen Points," 418; armistice negotiations with Germany, 420; two amendments to the "fourteen," 421; thus ends the war, 421; the German Revolution, 422; German politics during the war,
422; the transition to the republic, 424; November 9, 1918, 424; the Spartacist movement, 424; socialism versus bolshevism, 425; the abdication of monarchy, 426; the Weimar As- sembly, 427; what the war had done to Germany, 428; the balance sheet of the Great War, 429; the direct cost in life, 430; the influenza plague, 431; the cost in human quality, 432; the cost in world wealth, 433; the imponderables, 433; the peace of Paris, 435; League of Nations' attitude upon war issues, 513.
Wrangel, General, 524. Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 708. Wu Pei-fu, 674. Wu Ting-fang, 193. Wyndham's Act of 1903, 40.
Yalu river, battle of, 185. Yap, Japanese mandate over, 676. Young, Owen, 622. Young China, liberal ideas of, 192. Young Turk movement, the, 208, 211. Younghusband, Colonel, 190. Youth movement, in Germany, the, 633. Ypres, battle of, 306. Yuan Shih-kai, 177, 193. Yudenich, General, 525. Yugo-Slavia, dispute with Albania, 506; the problem of unity, 590; the Yugo- Slav Government, 591; Yugo-Slav problems, 592.
Zabern affair, the, 108. Zaghlul Pasha, 651. Zankoff, Alexander, 595. Zeebrugge, raid on, 406. Zemstvos, Russian, 364. Zimmermann, Alfred, 341, 503. Zimmermann note, the, 341. Zinoviev, head of executive committee of the Third International, 520.
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