The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (145 page)

Waldorf schools
325

War Ministry (Austria-Hungary)
539

War Ministry (French)
482

War Ministry (Germany)
285

War Office (Britain)
110
,
182
,
281
,
491

war plans
xviii
,
22
,
106
,
111
,
113
,
135
,
298
–303,
313
,
321
,
335
,
336
,
344
–45,
371
,
373
–74,
426
,
506
,
595

Warburg, Max
504
,
525

Warburg interests
412

Warsaw Pact
496

Watergate scandal (1972)
141

Waterloo, Battle of (1815)
132
,
134
,
137

Webb, Beatrice
540

Webb, Sidney
540

Wehrverein
472

Weihaiwei, Shantung peninsula, China
46

Weltmachtstellung
(‘world power’)
80

Weltpolitik
(‘world policy’)
80
,
81
,
83

Western Front
xix
–xx,
28
,
373

German war plans
xviii
,
22

map (1914–18)
xii
–xiii

White, Andrew
281

Wickham Steed, Henry
210

Wilde, Oscar
244

Wilhelm I, Kaiser
59
,
60
,
65
–66,
69
,
228
,
418
,
429

plot to kill him
518

Wilhelm II, Kaiser
2
,
22
,
26
,
32
,
99
,
113
,
101
,
158
,
235
,
256
,
259
,
373
, P1.
2
, P1.
3
, P1.
8

abdication (1918)
59
,
599

and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance
50

appearance
60
,
213

and archaeology
478

armed forces’ oath of loyalty to him
71

attitude to Britain
84

and Belgium
328
–29

Björkö agreement
189
–90

and Bosnia-Herzegovina annexation
398

and the British royal family
84
–86

character
60
–64,
70
,
322
,
494

childhood
170

conversations at Windsor Castle
44

Daily Telegraph
affair
124
–27,
400
,
405
,
416

daughter’s wedding
469
,
471

death
605

and death of Queen Victoria
58

decision to build a navy to challenge British sea power
59

difficult birth
64
–65

dismisses Bismarck
52
,
223

during the war
604

education
65

and Edward VII
61
,
85
–86,
122
–24,
156
,
190

and the Entente Cordiale
157
,
188

fascinated by ships and the sea
18

favours Anglo-German alliance
58
–59

and the first Hague Peace Conference
279

and Franz Ferdinand’s assassination
513

furious at Russian military preparations
568

German jokes about
71

Kruger telegram
56
,
76

lack of co-ordination and overall direction of Germany
322

lives in the Netherlands
604

love of the military
66
,
72
,
171
,
205

Mahan’s influence
75
,
89

marriages
62
–63

Military Cabinet
322
,
324

models himself on Frederick the Great
xxvi
,
91

naval race
198
,
406

New York Times
interview
195
–96

peacemaking
103
,
326
,
406
,
425
,
458

and Permanent Court of Arbitration
282

power of
59
,
66
–67,
69
,
70
,
72
,
89
,
97
–98,
130
,
169

promises support to Austria-Hungary
457
,
465

relations with Franz Joseph
223

relations with the tsar
358
,
419
,
494
–95,
590

and rise of Hitler
605

on Salisbury
56
–57

and Schlieffen
317

on Second Novelle
120
–21

sees himself as the balance of power in Europe
74

sees war as inevitable
480
,
525

speeches
63
–64,
70

and Spithead naval review
27
–28

state visit to Abdul Hamid II
378
–79,
379

talks with Haldane
508

Tangier visit
353
–4,
355
,
356
,
359
,
360
,
361
,
363
, P1.
22

telegrams to Wilhelm
566
–67

travelling
71
,
83

and the ultimatum to Serbia
551
–52

unwelcome advice to Nicholas
188
–89

wants to dominate the world’s stage
59
–60

War Council
479
,
480

withered arm
65
,
359

Youth Decree
261

William of Wied, Prince, king of Albania
67
,
462
,
540

Williams, E.E.
103

‘Made in Germany’
101
–2

Wilson, Sir Arthur
373
,
374

Wilson, Sir Henry
374
,
375
–76,
426
,
428
,
490
–91,
499
,
603

Wilson, President Woodrow
276
,
509
,
584
,
591
,
592
,
597
–98

Witte, Count Sergei
171
,
172
,
174
,
177
,
178
,
184
,
185
,
187
,
188
,
191
,
192
,
239

Wolff, Theodor
541

Wolseley, Field Marshal Sir Garnet
243
,
309

Woltmann, Ludwig
249

women

abandoning traditional roles
244

demand for votes
xxii
,
244
,
423
,
489

Women’s Christian Temperance Union
275

working classes

alienated
233

and conscription
258

doubting their loyalty and reliability
106
–7

feared as a political force
245

growth in
7

improved conditions
285

joining up in the Great War
240

militancy
400
,
412

public houses
11

resentment of middle classes
248

rise of
32

tourism
10

working hours
233
,
243

Y

Yanushkevich, General Nicholas
550
,
567

Yellow Peril
125
,
188
,
189
,
195
,
356
,
369

Young Bosnians
514
–15

Young Turks
394
–95,
397
,
399
,
441
,
444
,
449
,
459
,
493
,
494
,
495

youth movements
309

Ypres, Belgium
xix
,
596

Yugoslav movement
389

Yugoslavia
598

Yusupov, Prince
164

Z

Zabern (now Saverne) incident (1913)
229
,
263
–65,
483

Zagreb
201

Zanzibar
34
,
93

Zedlitz-Trützschler, Count Robert
61
–62,
67

zemstvos
173

Zeppelin, Count
122
,
253

Zeppelins
232
,
253
,
483

Zhilinski, General Iakov
345

Zimmermann, Arthur
525
,
533

Zola, Émile
87
,
247

‘J’Accuse’
142

Zulu wars (1879–96)
xxiii

Zurlinden, General Emile
144

Zweig, Stefan
10
,
11
,
12
,
14
,
19
,
231
,
277
,
563
–64

‘the Golden Age of Security’
11
,
12

The World of Yesterday
11

1. The Paris Exposition of 1900 celebrated peace and prosperity as well as Europe’s dominance in the world. Its exhibits, though, hinted at some of the tensions which were going to bring an end to one of the longest periods of calm in Europe’s turbulent history.