The World War and What was Behind It; Or, The Story of the Map of EuropeBénézet, Louis Paul
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The World War and What was Behind It; Or, The Story of the Map of Europe
Bénézet, Louis Paul
Europe -- History; World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes
Gaelic language. Gaels. Garibaldi. Gauls. German Confederation.
German secret agents set fire to American property and kill
Americans; try to stir up war between the U. S. and Japan; stir
up trouble in Russia. German tribes. Germanic languages.
Germany, the Holy Roman Empire of. Germany, the modern Empire
of; encourages France to declare war on England;
makes friends with Turkey; policy toward Balkan nations;
warns Russia; attacks France through Belgium. Goths.
Government, by the people; based on the consent of the
governed;
limited to the ruling class. Governments, newness of
European. Great Britain offers to judge Serbian trouble;
declares war on Germany. Greece,
treaty of, with Serbia; Greek Empire, origin of; fall of.
Greeks; ungenerous to Bulgarians, desert to Venizelos; join
the Entente.
Hague, court of the. Hannibal’s war against Rome. Hapsburgs,
the. Hohenzollern family. Holstein. Homage.
Hungarians. Huns.
Indemnity. Indo-European family of languages. Istria.
Italy, a battle ground of nations; becomes a nation; makes war
on Turkey; declines to support Austria and Germany; declares
war on Austria.
Kavala. Kent, William, on Mexican intervention. Kerensky,
leader of the Russian government. Kings, origin of. Koumanova,
battle of.
Labor troubles, in England; in Russia.
Language, relationship shown by. Latin tongues. Lithuania.
Lombards. Lorraine. Louis XIV of France. _Lusitania_, sinking
of the.
Macedonia. Magyars. Marathon, battle of. Marchand, Major.
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria; helps to divide Poland.
Marlborough, Duke of. Mazzini.
Metternich. Middle Ages. Military service, owed to rulers; in
Prussia; in France.
Mirabeau. Moltke. Montenegro, origin of;
declares war on Austria. Monroe Doctrine. Moors.
Murat.
Napoleon III. Netherlands, foundation of kingdom of.
Newspapers, control of. Normans. Norway, joined to Sweden;
danger from Germany; vigorously protests submarine warfare.
Novibazar, the Sanjak of.
Ostrogoths.
Paris, siege of. Peace, German offer of;
Allies’ terms of; United States’ desire for; Russo-German
conference toward; German desire for. Peasants, attached to
the land;
support fighting classes. Peter the Great. Poland,
kingdom of; partition of; given largely to Russia;
revolutions in. Preparation for war Prussia, origin of
kingdom of; crushed by Napoleon; dominated by Bismarck.
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