The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (140 page)

Post Office
110

Potemkin
(Russian battleship), mutiny onboard (1905)
167

Potiorek, General Oskar
466
,
516
,
518
,
520

Potsdam
71
,
329
,
419
,
479
,
494

Pourtalès, Count Friedrich von
568
,
569
–70,
580
–81

Preobrazhensky Guards
168
,
171

prices

agricultural
232
–33,
234

bread
108

food
11

land
234

rising
412

wheat
202

Princip, Gavrilo
514
,
516
,
518
, P1.
29
601

progress

evidence of progress before the Great War
12

faith in
15
,
20
,
268

France at ‘vanguard’ of
22

and peace
19

progressive movement
275

Progressive Party (Germany)
275

Protestants
53
,
175
,
316
,
375
,
543

Proust, Marcel
230
,
235
,
239

In Remembrance of Times Past
240

Prussia

at the heart of a greater Germany
73

conscription
296

Junker families
69

Ministry of Education
73

Ministry of War
322

population
69

Prussian character
69
,
254

rivalry with Austria-Hungary
216

Schleswig-Holstein seized
86
,
147

territory
69

Tirpitz’s love of
90

treatment of Polish minority
223

unites the German states
51

Prussian army
91
,
103
,
256
,
295
,
297

Prussian court
65

Prussian navy
91

Prussianism
115
,
254

Psichari, Ernest:
Call to Arms
265

public opinion

and Anglo-German relations
59
,
158

and atrocities in Ottoman Empire
39

on Austro-Hungarian and German relations
222

Belgian
586

British
422
,
560
,
584

and dispute between Bülow and Chamberlain
48

and Dogger Bank incident
159
–60

and Entente Cordiale
155

and foreign affairs
9
,
35
,
192

French
135
,
151
,
349
,
422
,
429
,
482

German
99
,
126
,
415
,
421
,
430
,
479
–80,
521

Grey appeals to
364

growing importance of
35
,
58
,
312
–13

hostile to Serbia
454

influence on political decisions
102

Italian
433

nationalist
129

and naval race
124
,
128
,
130

as a new and unpredictable factor
9

pressures on Europe’s leaders
102

and rights of Italian speakers in Austria-Hungary
492
–93

Russian
174
,
178
,
192
,
257
,
423
,
567

and shoring up British interests around the globe
44

and Tangier visit
356

and Tirpitz
96

volatility
58

war favoured in Bulgaria
464

Puerto Rico, US control of
16
,
17
,
40

Pushkin, Alexander
180

Q

Quai d’Orsay, Paris
143
,
149
,
155
,
348
,
363
,
364
,
414
,
415
,
422
,
544

Quaker Friends for Peace
274

Quakers
276
,
277

Quidde, Ludwig
71

R

racialists
245
,
249

radicals
108
,
142
,
144
,
202
,
224
,
345
–46,
406
,
439
,
474
,
498

radios
102

railways
9
–10,
12
,
40
,
46
,
49
,
83
,
102
,
146
,
161
,
162
,
167
,
171
,
172
,
181
–84,
194
,
201
,
207
,
237
,
271
,
284
,
296
–99,
327
,
331
,
335
–
38
,
341
,
344
,
348
,
373
,
378
,
390
,
392
–93,
394
,
404
,
415
,
419
,
423
,
431
,
448
,
486
,
504
,
525
,
530
,
547
,
554

Raisuli, El (Moroccan bandit)
354
,
358

Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar)
25

Rasputin, Grigori
164
,
173
,
176
,
341
,
474
,
542
–43,
545
,
601

Rathenau, Walther
60
–61,
247
,
419

Zur Kritik der Zeit
237

Red Cross
xxi

Redl, Colonel Alfred
235
,
336
–37,
342

Redlich, Josef
519

Redmond, John
543
,
588

Reichstag, Germany

consequences of passing First Navy Law
97
–98

described
68

growing deficits attacked
118

Italian invasion of Libya
434

lack of enthusiasm for a bigger navy
90

polarised
417

second Moroccan crisis
429

Reinach, Joseph
144

Reinsurance Treaty
74
,
79
,
137
,
146
,
147
,
226

religion

fall in church attendances
239

Nicholas II’s religious beliefs
172

Orthodox
172
,
175
,
226
,
249
,
380
,
382
,
389
,
439
,
465

Protestants
53
,
175
,
316
,
375
,
490
,
491
,
543

rise of militant religions
xxii

in Russia
165
,
275

Theosophy
239
,
325

Tsarina’s conversion
175

Rennes, France
143
,
145

Reval meeting (now Tallinn, Estonia) (1907)
394

Revolutions of 1848
179
,
204
,
207

Rheims Cathedral, France
xix

Rhine river
96
,
298
,
348

Rhineland
348

Rhodes
434

Rhodesian Horse
26

Richmond, Duke of
544

Riezler, Kurt
252
,
523
,
526
–27

right, the

blames the left or Jews for the war
xxx

nationalist
570

in Russia
475

wants a professional army
346

Rilke, Rainer Maria
229

Ritchie, C.T.
108

Roberts, Lord, of Kandahar
258
,
260

A Nation in Arms
260

Rodin, Auguste
229
,
235
,
540

Rolland, Romain
277
,
287

Roman Empire
xxiii
,
53
,
242
,
245

Romanov family
4
,
172
,
173
,
474

Roosevelt, Theodore
84
,
267
,
275
,
593

becomes President
18

on Bryan
276

character
17
–18

critics of
17

fascinated by ships and the sea
18

and growth of US Navy
18

and the Kaiser
86
,
195

and Mahan’s theories
88
–89

mediation in Russo-Japanese War
162
–63,
362
,
363

Nobel Peace Prize
163

Open Door policy
356

and Perdicaris kidnap
358

second Hague Peace Conference
282
,
283

Rosebery, Lord
82
,158,
366

Rothschild family
32

Rouvier, Maurice
361
,
362
,
363
–64

Royal Commission on food supply in time of war
106

Royal Dragoons
56

Royal Navy (Great Britain)
262
,
296
,
359

and Anglo-Japanese Alliance
50

battle stations
569

blockade tactic
94
,
330

Britain’s lifeline to the wider world
104

Britain’s shield
104

Caribbean Fleet
17

and co-operation with French navy
364

conditions
111

Eastern Fleet
112

education
111

financing of
114
,
400
,
423

Fisher’s reforms
109

fleet at Algeciras
368

German navy not ready to take it on
329

global commitments
38

Grey supports a large navy
366
–67

largest in the world
35
,
94

Mediterranean Fleet
135
,
499

Mobilisation
569

naval budget
99
,
107
,
127
,
498
,
503