The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (143 page)

Sofia, Bulgaria
442

Sokol gymnastic movement
257

Solomon Islands
76

Somaliland
431

Somme, Battle of the (1916)
596

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (née Chotek; wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand)
213
–14,
223
,
386
–7,
511
,
516
,
518
, P1.
29

South Africa, and financing of Royal Navy
114

South Slavs
xxii
,
212
,
214
,
219
,
227
,
381
,
384
,
389
,
391
,
399
,
448
,
449
,
451
,
459
,
461
,
465
,
514
,
519
,
520
,
598

South Tyrol
215
,
218
,
222

Soviet Union

collapse of regime
168
–69,
601

Cuban missile crisis
302
,
592

Soviet of Workers Deputies
167

Spain

agreement with France over Morocco
358
,
361

relations with France
145
,
150

strikes in
412

terrorism in
241

Spanish-American War (1898)
16
,
17

charge at San Juan Hill
17

Spencer, Herbert
15
,
246

Spender, J.A.
43
,
44

Spengler, Oswald:
The Decline of the West
246

Spion Kop, Battle of (1900)
45
–46

spiritualism
238
–39

Spithead naval review (1897)
27
–28,
37
,
113

Spithead naval review (1902)
100
,
104
,
105

Spitzemberg, Baroness
157
–58

sport
20
,
242
–43

standing armies
296
–97

Stanislavsky, Constantin
165

Stanley, Venetia
492
,
543
,
579
,
585
,
587

Stapleton-Bretherton, Evelyn
53

Starvation
xx
,
106
,
164

Stead, William Thomas
271
,
283

Steiner, Rudolf
325

Stengel, Karl von
279

Stinnes, Hugo
257
,
315

Stolypin, Peter
193
,
339
,
403
,
449

and annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina
398

chair of Council of Ministers
178

character
178

courage when attacked by terrorists
178

determined to avoid provocative international moves
179

and the Duma
178

favours détente with Britain
192

murder of
179
,
241
,
473

Nicholas II’s attitude to
179

Reval meeting
394

and support of Serbia
405

Straits, the
181
,
182
,
195
,
225
,
226
,
342
,
381
,
387
,
392
,
393
–97,
400
,
401
,
435
,
447
,
448
,
476
,
493
,
507

Strasbourg, Alsace: Paris statue P1.
36

Strauss, Richard
477
–78,
495

Der Rosenkavalier
229

Salome
61

strikes

in Austria-Hungary
202

in Britain
107
,
412
,
424
,
473
,
599

in France
262
,
599

in Germany
67
–68

in Italy
473
,
599

in Portugal
412

in Russia
164
,
167
,
202
,
475
,
541
,
542
,
548

and socialists
290

in Spain
412

upswing in strikes in Europe
233

Stuart-Wortley, Colonel Edward
124
,
125

Stürgkh, Prime Minister
530

submarines
88
,
373
,
502
,
598

Sudan
133

Britain assumes Egypt’s interests in
131

civil wars
135

Kitchener ordered to retake
134

lost to Egypt (1885)
132

Suez Canal
34
,
39
,
110
,
132
,
162
,
499

Sukhomlinov, General Vladimir
339
–43,
455
–6,
472
,
550
,
553
,
562
,
566
,
567
,
602
, P1.
19

Sunaric, Dr Josip
517

Suttner, Arthur von
266
,
267

Suttner, Countess Bertha von (née Kinsky)
279
,
509
–10,
594
, P1.
14

Austrian Peace Society
267

awarded Nobel Peace Prize
268

background
266

elopes with Suttner
267

first Hague Peace Conference
281

Nobel’s secretary
266

publicist and lobbyist
267

second Hague Peace Conference
283

and socialists
285

talent for writing
267

her views
268
–69

Lay Down Your Arms!
267

Suttner family, Von
266

Swinemunde, Germany
426

Switzerland
122
,
216

citizens’ militia
289

Paris Universal Exposition
1

Syria
493

Szapáry, Friedrich
549

Szögyény, Count Lidislaus
398
,
522
,
523

T

Taft, William
414

Taiwan
161

Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de
200

Tangier, Morocco: the Kaiser’s visit
353
–56,
359
,
360
,
361
,
363
, P1.
22

Tannenberg, Battle of (1914)
596

Tartars (Mongols)
179
,
180

Tatiana Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess of Russia, murdered by the Bolsheviks
601
, P1.
11

Taube, Baron Marcel
129
,
187
,
193
,
449

technology
xxv
,
xxviii
,
5
,
12
,
15
,
38
,
101
,
107
–8,
112
,
183
,
304
,
327

military
168
,
271
,
294
,
308
,
373

telegraph
9
,
38
,
55
,
102
,
110
,
134
,
167
,
222
,
264
,
498

terrorism
240
–41,
242

Teutons
222
,
249
,
253
,
336
,
476
,
479
,
524
,
541

Thailand
see
Siam

Theosophy
239
,
325

Thiers, Adolphe
139

Thomas Cook and Sons
104

Thrace
226

Tibet
40
,
183
,
192
,
194
,
239

Tientsin (Tianjin), China
46

Tirpitz, Grand Admiral Alfred von
83
,
115
,
322
, P1.
8

appearance
92

background
90

and Chamberlain’s proposed alliance
95
–96

character
92

and colonial acquisitions
91

demands battlecruisers
480

First Navy Law (1898)
96
–97,
103
–4

First Novelle (1906)
117
,
118
,
119
,
121

idolises Frederick the Great
91

‘Iron Budget’
96

and Mahan
91

maintains that his naval policy was right
604

meetings with the Kaiser
92
–93

Minister of the Navy
76
,
92
,
130

naval race
117
,
120
,
198
,
253
,
393
,
406
,
430

Navy Law (1912)
503

promotion of maritime interests
251

in Prussian navy
91

risk theory
94
–95

Second Navy Law (1900)
98
,
103
–4

Second Novelle (1908)
120
–21

and sharing information
303

talks with Haldane
508

three crucial assumptions
99

and Treitschke
91

wants war postponed
479

wrong about British reaction to naval building
94

Tisza, István (Prime Minister of Hungary, 1903–05, 1913–17)
209
,
235
,
466
,
477
,
507

and the Austria-Hungary ultimatum
539
,
548

deeply conservative
464

hopes to avoid war
535

isolated on the Serbia issue
530

murdered
601

opposes universal suffrage
464

support for war on Serbia
464
,
562
, P1.
33

and ultimatum to Serbia on Albania
464
–65

Titanic
, RMS
283

Tolstoy, Count Leo
267
,
275
,
278

torpedo boats
88
,
93
,
96

Toul fortress
575

Toulon
148

trade

British
4
,
67
,
256
–57,
269
–70,
373

free
18
,
278

French
270

German
13
,
55
,
67
,
87
,
256
–57,
269
–70

seaborne
88

US world trade share
15