Index
Adriatic Sea, question of the control of.
Agadir incident.
Albania, formation of the kingdom of.
Albanians,
language
of;
habits of.
Alexander the Great.
Algeciras
incident.
Alliance, the Holy.
Alliance, the Triple.
Alliance, the Dual.
Alliance, the Balkan.
Alsace.
Ambassador.
Angles, the, invade Britain.
Arbitration of
national disputes.
Arminius.
Armor, value of.
Austria-Hungary,
origin of;
helps to
divide Poland;
at war with France;
at
war with Sardinia and France;
at war with Prussia and
Italy;
refuses to arbitrate Serbian trouble.
Austrians in Italy.
Balance of Power.
Balkan problem.
Barons.
Bastille, fall
of the.
Belgium,
joined to Holland to form the
Netherlands;
independent;
guaranteed
its freedom by three powers.
Bernadotte.
Bismarck-Schönausen.
Blenheim, battle of (poem).
Blockade of Germany.
Bohemia,
part of the Holy Roman Empire;
part of the
Hapsburg domains.
Bolsheviki, revolt of the.
Bonaparte, Louis
Napoleon.
Bonaparte, Napoleon.
Bosnian problem.
Bourbon
family.
Brandenburg;
rise of.
Brazil
declares war on Germany.
Britons.
Bulgaria,
freed
by Russia;
left partially under the control of Turkey;
independent;
at war;
with
five nations;
plunges into world war;
treacherously
orders an attack on Greece and Serbia.
Bulgars,
origin
of;
in Macedonia.
Bulow, Prince von.
Burgundians.
Byzantium becomes Constantinople.
Caesar, Julius.
Cape to Cairo Railroad.
Catharine II of
Russia.
Cavour, Count, prime minister of Sardinia.
Celtic
languages, disappearance of.
Celts.
Charlemagne.
Charles
V.
Charles XII of Sweden.
Chauvinists.
Churchill,
Winston.
Cincinnatus.
Constantine,
prince in
Crete;
king of Greece.
Constantinople.
Contraband of war.
Cracow, Republic of.
Crete.
Czechs.
Danes,
in Schleswig.
Dark Ages.
Delcassé.
Denmark,
loses Norway;
defeated by
Prussia and Austria;
injured by submarine campaign.
Deutschland, voyages of the.
Dialects.
Dictator, Roman.
Divine right of kings.
Dukes vs. Kings.
Duma, the Russian;
asked to form a government.
Edward VII.
Elba, Napoleon’s return from.
Elector, the Great.
Electors of the Holy Roman Empire.
England,
power
of the king of;
in Egypt;
troubles of,
in 1914.
Entente Cordiale.
Entente, the Triple.
Esthonians.
Etruscans.
Fashoda incident.
Ferdinand of Bulgaria;
enters
war on side of Germany and Austria;
attacks Serbia;
ambitions of.
Feudal system.
Finland annexed to
Russia.
Finns;
conquered by the Swedes.
Flemish.
France,
power of king of;
execution
of king of;
in Africa;
wars of.
Franks.
Franz Ferdinand.
Frederick the Great.
French
Revolution.
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.
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.