The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (127 page)

relations with Italy
199
,
200
,
214
–15,
216
,
222
,
291
,
332
,
492
–93

relations with Russia
214
,
220
,
224
–27,
312
,
315
,
320
,
382
–83,
385
,
397
,
436
,
446
,
460
,
492

relations with Serbia
388
,
409

rivalry with Prussia
216

rivalry with Russia in the Balkans
471

rivalry with Russia over Ottoman Empire
381
–82

Russia goes to war with
xxiv
,
146

and scramble for colonies
216

secret alliance with Rumania
386
–87

strikes
202

struggle for survival
xxii
,
xxvii
,
471

threatens to destroy Serbia
xxiv

in Triple Alliance
xxix
,
38
,
45
,
74
,
78
,
147
,
187
,
190
,
196
,
216
,
221
,
222
,
312
,
493

ultimatum to Montenegro
462

ultimatum to Serbia (1913)
464
–65,
466

ultimatum to Serbia (1914)
531
–32,
533
,
540
,
542
,
544
,
550
–51,
561

Austrian Peace Society
267

Austrian Socialist Party
292

Austro-Hungarian army
208
–9,
220
,
402

A-Staffel
334

B-Staffel
334

conscription
275

German view of
331
–32

honour
236

losses
596

Minimalgruppe Balkan
334

mobilisation
337
,
338
,
467
,
531
,
576
,
584

and nationalist movements
257

pessimism of officer corps
234

reforms
332

size
335
,
502

spending
335

values
303
–4

Austro-Hungarian navy: Adriatic Fleet
461

Austro-Prussian War (Seven Weeks’ War) (1866)
5
,
204
,
207
,
222

Avenger (a spy)
348

Azerbaijan
380

B

Baden, Grand Duke of
97

Baden-Powell, General Robert
258
,
260

Scouting for Boys
242

Balck, Wilhelm
243

Balfour, Arthur
273

character
42

enthusiasm for Zionism
43

Salisbury’s nephew
42

wants to move away from isolation
136

Balkan armies
445

Balkan League
442
,
444
,
445
,
446
,
450
,
453
,
455
,
457
,
459
,
462

Balkan wars (1912–13)
xxiv
,
xxix
,
215
,
290
,
291
,
326
,
341
,
385
,
431
,
467
,
471
,
536
,
555
,
557
,
605

armistice and peace talks
446

armistice signed to end First Balkan War
456
,
457

Austria-Hungary’s involvement
451
–58,
462
,
478

Balkan army successes
445
–46,
455

Balkan League’s string of quick victories
453

Balkan states
437
–39

British and French concerns
446
–47

creation of Balkan League
443
–44

film footage of Second Balkan War
468

and increased military spending
502

investigation of
468

Kiderlen’s ‘bluff’ remark
545

national movements
439

Peace of Bucharest
462

Rasputin counsels the tsar against war
543

revolt of Albanian Muslims in Serbia
462
–63

revolutionary activity
439
–40,
441

Russian involvement
447
–51,
478

Sazonov encourages Balkan states
449
–50

Scutari issue
460
–62

secret societies
440

Serbian victory in both wars
463
,
514

treaties
443
–44

Balkans
40
,
196
,
200
,
216
,
227

Balkan powers seize Ottoman territory (1912)
438
,
442

Bosnia crisis P1.
24

Common Ministerial Council discussions
463
–65

emerging nations
385
–86

German competition in
223

German investment and influence in
492

Italian ambitions in
222

map (1912–14)
xvi
–xvii

militarism P1.
15

old order dead
453

Ottoman control
380

Ottoman territories in
381

rivalries between Italy and Austria-Hungary
332

rivalries between Russia and Austria-Hungary
187
,
382
–83,
385
,
471

Serbia capitulates
465

Serbian and Montenegrin occupation of Albania
446

Balla, Giacomo
6
,
230

Ballin, Albert
416
,
427
,
507
,
556

Baltic
27
,
117
,
129
,
181

Baltic Port (now Paldiski, Estonia)
494

Baltic states
180
,
475

Balts
164

Bánffy, Miklós

They Were Divided
31

Transylvanian trilogy
32

Barcelona, Spain, bombing of the theatre
241

Barclay, Thomas
135
,
142
,
145

Baring, Sir Evelyn (later Lord Cromer)
42

Barings Bank
192

Bark, Peter
552

Battenberg, Louis
423

battleships

American
17
,
18

battlecruisers
480

British
27
,
48
,
112
,
113
,
121
,
123
,
127
,
128
–29

Churchill moves ships to Gibraltar
499

cost of
108

dreadnoughts
101
,
113
,
114
,
117
,
118
,
120
,
121
,
127
,
128
–29,
283
,
373
,
430
,
493
,
498
,
525

Schichau works
124

Spithead naval review
27

as targets
88

Tirpitz’s First Navy Law
96

Tirpitz’s view
93

and Wilhelm II
61
,
89

Bebel, August
286
–87,
290
,
421

Beck, General Friedrich von
333
,
334

Beijing: Boxer Rebellion
47

Beilis, Mendel
475

Belgian army
329
,
505
,
586

Belgian Congo
421

Belgium
505
,
569

and Congo
82

conscription
505

devastation of
xix

and first Hague Peace Conference
281

German invasion
300
,
302
–3,
313
,
336
,
348
–49,
350

neutrality
xviii
,
321
,
323
,
328
,
345
,
349
,
505
,
547
,
556
,
568
,
580
,
583
–87,
589
,
590
, P1.
20

resistance
xviii
,
564
,
595

and second Hague Peace Conference
283
–84

Belgrade, Serbia
437
,
442
,
457
,
465
,
532
,
538

demonstrations in
401
,
445
,
522

socialist parties’ meeting (1910)
291

Bell, Alexander Graham
245

Belloc, Hilaire
265

Belvedere Palace, Vienna
214

Benckendorff, Count Alexander
182
–83,
185
,
194
,
195
,
259
,
459

Berchtold, Count Leopold
511
,
520
,
521
,
530

on Aehrenthal
384
,
395

and Albania
460

ambassador to St Petersburg
391

Austria-Hungary’s foreign minister P1.
32

background
451

and breaking off relations with Serbia
539

buried at Buchlau
602

character
452

and Conrad
220
,
452
,
457
–58

criticism of
466

disapproves of Edward VII
452
–53

favours destruction of Serbia P1.
32

foreign policy views
453

Giesl instructed to break off diplomatic relations with Serbia
538

on Hartwig
410

in Italy
455

on Izvolsky
193
,
402

on Lamsdorff
186

refuses Conrad’s request to delay declaration of war on Serbia
539

resignation
602

and seizure of Bosnia-Herzegovina
397
–98

supports increase in armaments
464

ultimatum to Serbia
534
–38

Beresford, Admiral Charles
49

Bergson, Henri
239
,
308

Berlin
559
, P1.
35

Avenue of Victory
71

Bourse
119
,
427

business community
6