A School History of the Great WarMcKinley, Albert E. (Albert Edward)
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A School History of the Great War
McKinley, Albert E. (Albert Edward)
World War, 1914-1918
Nov. 3 Trieste and Trent occupied by Italian forces.
Nov. 4 Surrender of Austria-Hungary.
_Nov. 5 President Wilson notifies Germany that General Foch has been
authorized by the United States and the Allies to communicate
the terms of an armistice._
Nov. 6 Mutiny of German sailors at Kiel; followed by mutinies,
revolts, and revolutions at other German cities.
_Nov. 7 Americans take Sedan_.
Nov. 9 British take Maubeuge.
Nov. 9 Announcement that the German emperor William II "has decided
to renounce the throne"; he flees to Holland Nov. 10 and signs
a formal abdication Nov. 28
Nov. 11 Armistice signed; Germany surrenders.
INDEX
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.
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