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Abdul Hamid II, Sultan, 103
Aboukir (British armored cruiser), 88
Adalia, Turkey, 106, 192
Adige Valley, Italy, 108
Adriatic Sea, 79, 80, 107
Aerial reconnaissance planes, 50, 98, 147, 251–252
Agincourt (British ship), 169
Aircraft: bombing aircraft developed, 252–254; early military use of, 250–252; for observation, 240; for reconnaissance, 50, 98, 147, 251–252; Zeppelins, 253; See also types of aircraft
Air warfare: Battle of the Somme front, 264
Aisne River, France, 272, 273, 274; first Battle of, 57–58; second Battle of, 232–235
Aisne-Marne offensive, 282–287
Albania, 20, 103, 137, 138, 295
Albert of the Belgians, King, 37, 38, 58
Albrecht, General, 42, 51
Alexander III, Tsar, 130, 133
Alexandra, Tsarina, 130–131, 134, 167, 199, 200
Alexis, Tsarevitch, 130–131
Algerian troops, 95
Allenby, General Sir Edmund, 148, 149, 152, 231, 296; Battle of Megiddo, 296–297; taking of Jerusalem, 254–256
Allied Powers, see France; Great Britain; Italy; Russia; United States
Allies Supreme War Council, 248, 261; meeting at Doullens, 265–266; meeting at Versailles, 276
Alsace-Lorraine, 30, 31, 32, 40, 196, 300, 315, 320
American Civil War, 15, 111, 196
Amiens, France, 148, 265, 269, 282, 285
Amiens salient, 283
Anglo-Japanese Naval Alliance (1902), 18, 181
Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 188
Antwerp, Belgium, 43, 58
Anzac Cove, 232
Anzacs, the, 121, 122, 125, 149–150
Arabic (British liner), 216
Ardennes Forest, France, 37, 40; Battle of, 41–42
Argonne Forest, France, 232, 290, 291
Armenia, 103, 104, 214
Armentières, France, 267, 268
Armored fighting vehicles, see Tanks
Arras, France, 249, 262, 263, 267; offensive at, 229, 230, 231–232
Artois, France, 93, 96; first Battle of, 58; third Battle of, 99
Asiago, Italy, 158, 159
Asquith, Herbert, 51
Asquith’s Coalition Cabinet, 197
Aubers Ridge, France, 97
Auchinleck, General, 263
Audacious (British battleship), 88
Augustow, Forest of, Prussia, 72
Aulnoye, France, 288, 289, 292
Aurore, L’, 196
Australia, 34, 80, 181
Australian Cavalry Division, 255
Australian division, 283, 284, 285
Austria-Hungary, 13, 16–17, 18, 19; Archduke Francis Ferdinand’s assassination and, 24–26; attacks Rumania, 166; the Balkan States and, 20–21; Brusilov offensive against, 160–164; Czechs and, 297, 298; declares war on Russia, 29; demands Italy as ally, 106; drafts peace proposal (1916), 201; legacy of World War I, 319; naval power of, 79; number of mobilized men and casualties, 310; orders general mobilization, 29; Poles and, 297–298; the Polish salient, 62–63; Serbia and, 25–28, 73–74, 137; surrender of, 299; Treaty of St. Germaine-en-Laye, 316; Treaty of the Trianon, 316; war planes of, 30; war weariness of, 138–139; See also Hapsburg monarchy
Austrian-Hungarian Army: Battle of Caporetto, 247–248; Battle of Galicia, 69–70; battles of the Isonzo, 108–109, 157–159, 246; Battle of Vittorio Veneto, 298–299; Gorlice-Tarnow offensive, 132–134; 2nd Army, 69; 5th Army, 73; 6th Army, 73; 11th Army, 158
Avanti, 107
Baden, Prince Max of, 303–304, 305
Baghdad, Mesopotamia, 188, 189, 255
Balfour, Arthur, 192
Balfour Declaration, 192–193
Balkan States, 19–21; Austria-Hungary and, 20–21; Russia and, 20; See also names of countries
Barbed wire, 14, 15
Barham (British ship), 173
Basra, Mesopotamia, 188
Baupaume, France, 263, 265
Beatty, Sir David, 85–86, 171–174, 178
Beaumont-Hamel, France, 154, 156
Beauvais, France, 266
Beersheba, Turkey, 254, 255
Beirut, Lebanon, 297
Belgium, 28–33, 201, 300; Battle of Liége, 37–39; British aid to, 43; fall of Antwerp, 58; Germany declares war on, 29, 38; Germany forces way through, 37–39, 43–44; first Battle of Ypres, 58–59; second Battle of Ypres, 94–96, 98; size of army, 37; third Battle of Ypres, 239–242
Belgrade, Serbia, 73, 295
Belleau Wood, Battle of, 277
Below, General Otto von: Battle of Caporetto, 246–248; Battle of Chemin des Dames, 273–275; Battle of the Somme, 151; Battle of the Somme front, 262, 267
Berlin (German auxiliary cruiser), 88
Berlin, Congress of (1878), 103, 135
Berlin-Baghdad railway, 165
Bessarabia, Russia, 214
Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor, 28, 202–204, 299
Bismarck, Otto von, 16–17, 33, 104
Black Hand (terrorist organization), 23
Bloch, Ivan, 16, 59, 90, 224
Blücher (German armored cruiser), 85, 86
Boehn, General von, 273, 279, 288
Bolshevik Revolution, 57
Bolzano, Italy, 108
Boris of Bulgaria, King, 135, 296
Bosnia, 73
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 20, 62, 104; assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife, 23–24
Bourlon Wood, France, 249, 250
Bouvet (French battleship), 120, 123
Breslaw (German light cruiser), 79, 80, 104
Brest-Litovsk, Poland, 133; Treaty of, 213–214
Briand, Premier Aristide, 196, 197
Britain, see Great Britain
British East Africa, 184
British Expeditionary Forces, 31, 37; Aisne-Marne offensive, 283–285; the Anzacs, 121, 122, 125, 149–150; Arras offensive, 231–232; attack on Cambrai, 291–292; attack on Festubert, ...