A history of Europe / by H.A.L. Fisher.

  • Herbert Fisher
Date:
[1936]
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Credit: A history of Europe / by H.A.L. Fisher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    advantages (19th c.) 885-6; rail¬ way development, 885; popula¬ tion statistics, 885 ; expansion of industry and commerce, 1050-1, 1107; construction of the battle fleet, 1064, 1068-9, 1083 ; charac¬ ter of the ships, 1139; British re¬ action to naval increase, 1083, 1108, 1109; education, 1051, 1056; Insurance Acts, 1052; cul¬ ture, 1057 5 social amenities, 1099- iioo; outstanding position (open¬ ing of 2oth c.), 1107; attitude to Hague Conferences, 1084; rela¬ tions with Britain in Victoria’s reign, 1062-4 5 attitude to Britain (end 19th c.), 1062, 1068, 1085, 1108; position in Africa, 1064; move against France (1905), 1082; Agadir incident, 1093; Balkan Conference (1914), iiii; desire for more colonies, 1119; war (1914), 1117-18, 1120; Social¬ ists vote the war credits, 1119, 1193; mobilization, 1123; inva¬ sion of Belgium, 1119, 1123, 1132, 1154; initial advantages, 1127; Belgian campaign, 1123-4; E. Prussian, 1124-5; the Marne, 1125; Ypres, 1126; Goehen and Breslau, 1129; Falkenhayn’s plans, T132-3; poison gas, 1134, 1154; Verdun and the Somme, 1135-6; losses, 1135 n.; Rou¬ manian campaign, 1136; priva¬ tions, 1137, 1156; conscription of the population, 1137; social disci¬ pline, 1122, 1137; naval engage¬ ments, 1138-9; unrestricted U- boat warfare, 1141, 1144-5, 1154; the Siegfried (Hindenburg) line, 1144; stormed, 1150; Allied vic¬ tories, 1150; mutiny at Kiel, 1139, 1150; Republic proclaimed, 1150, 1197; the armistice, 1151 ; the peace terms, 1165; cession of the navy, 1158, 1162; destruction of army equipment, 1165 ; repara¬ tions, 1163-4, 1198, 1200; treaty with U.S.A., 1166 n. ; Austrian union with, forbidden, 1166; per¬ sistence of the feud with France, 1198; the Kapp “putsch,” 1197- 8; Communism and Sparta- cism, 1197, 1203; commercial agreement with Russia, 1188; French occupation of the Ruhr, 1198- 9; depreciation of the cur- rency, 1198-9; Hitler “putsch,” 1203; Dawes Settlement, 1199- 1200; membership of the League of Nations, 1199, 1201 ; financial crash (1929), 1202-3; rise of the Nazis, 1196, 1203; fall of the Republic, 1203; its services to Germany, 1203-4; Nazis’ pro¬ gramme and methods, 1192, 1196, 1203-6, 1222; withdrawal from the League, 1176, 1205; racial¬ ism, 1196, 1204; anti-Semitism, 6, 1196, 1203, 1205; overthrow of liberalism, 1205 ; Hitlerism com¬ pared with Fascism, 1205; un¬ employment, 1203; non-agres¬ sion pact with Poland, 1191 ; the Reichstag fire, 1206; full supre¬ macy of Hitler, 1206; “blood¬ bath ” of June 30 (1934), 1206 and n.; conscription restored, 1206; a nation in arms, 1176? 1205; attitude to Russia, 1207. {And see Prussia) Gerson, Jean, 348-9 Gertruidenburg, 598 Ghent, 255, 292, 305, 333, 462, 530, 584; Pacification of (1576), 593 Ghibellines, 536 Ghirlandaio, Domenico, 447 Gibbon, Edward, 699 Gibraltar, 660, 685, 742; Dutch victory at (1607), 598; English acquisition of, 687 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 602, 609 Gilbert, W. S., 1115 Gilchrist, 1051 Giolitti, G., 1094 Giotto, 387 Giraldus Cambrensis, 248, 308 Giulay, Graf von, 952 Gladstone, W. E., 740, 948, 984, 1062; the Bulgarian atrocities, 1042-3; rivalry with Disraeli (1852-80), 1044; the Egyptian problem, 1070; estimate of, 1044; his policy, 1046 Glatz, 754 Glendower, Owen, 309, 328 Goa, 641 Godolphin, Earl of, 684, 686 Godounoff, Boris, 717 Godwin, Earl of Wessex, 187 Godoy, M. de, 852 Goebbels, Dr., 1204 Goehen, 1129 Goering, Gen., 1204 * Goerres, 469
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