Rasputin; assists Sturmer; is killed. Reichstag. Reign of Terror. Republic, first French; second French; third French. Robber chiefs. Roman Empire, beginnings of. Romansh people. Rome, wars of, with Carthage. Roon. Rothschild, the banking house of. Roumani. Roumania; hopes of; population of; declares war on Austria; is crushed between two armies. Russia, rise of; attacks Turkey; policy of; relations with Bulgaria; defends Serbia; ignorance of the people of; revolution in; controlled by the Bolsheviki. Ruthenians. Sarrail, sent to Salonika; watching Bulgars and Greeks. Saxons. Saxony, annexed in part to Prussia; allied to Austria. Salonika, Spanish Jews in. Sardinia, kingdom of. Schleswig. Scutari. Serbia, trade with Austria; relations with Bulgaria; trouble with Austria; attacked on three sides. Serbs, origin of; lands of; language of. Sicilies, Kingdom of the Two. Silesia, seizure of. Slavic tribes. Slovaks. Slovenes. Sobieski, John, king of Poland. Socialists, in Germany; in Italy. Spain, origin of; drives out “unbelievers,”; becomes a republic. Submarine boats sink British warships; sink merchant ships; sink the _Lusitania_; cross the Atlantic; begin to sink all ships without warning; kill Americans; sink Norwegian ships. Suevi. Sturmer chosen prime minister of Russia. Sweden, decline of. Talleyrand. Trentino. Tunis, seized by France. Turkey, defended by France and England; attacks Russia. Turks; capture Constantinople; driven back from Vienna; the young Turks; tolerance of the young; bigotry of the young. Ulster trouble, the. United States, indignant over the _Lusitania_; warns Germany; defends munitions trade in reply to Austria; receives _Deutschland_ hospitably; sends the German Ambassador home; declares war; desires nothing but to be safe from attack; sends an army to Europe. Vandals. Venice, Republic of. Venizelos, prime minister of Greece; comes from Crete; opposes King Constantine; once more prime minister. Vercingetorix. Victor Emmanuel. Vienna, Congress of. Walloons. War, four causes of; cost of; diseases caused by; increasing horror of. Warsaw, Grand-Duchy of. Waterloo, battle of. William of Normandy. Wilson, President, patient with Germany; asks both sides to name their terms; calls Congress to declare war. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The World War and What Was Behind It, by L. P. Bénézet