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The 394 pages that link to World War I, each with the reason it gives.

• Russian RevolutionRelated: Military defeats, shortages, and hardship intensified opposition to the tsarist government.

• SurrealismRelated: Its devastation helped intensify the revolt against the rational ideals that Surrealists distrusted.

• Adolf HitlerRelated: Hitler served in the German army, and defeat shaped his political outlook.

• German EmpireRelated: Defeat in the war brought the imperial regime to an end.

• DadaRelated: Dada’s rejection of reason and nationalism responded to the war’s mass violence.

• French Third RepublicRelated: The republic survived a war that mobilized the nation and devastated parts of France.

• Great MigrationRelated: Wartime labor demand opened Northern industrial jobs as European immigration declined.

• Seven Years' WarCompared with: It is often compared with this earlier global conflict, despite their very different scale and structure.

• Armenian genocideNarrower topic: Ottoman leaders invoked wartime security while deporting Armenians from the empire’s eastern provinces.

• Combined armsRelated: Trench warfare exposed the limits of infantry attacks unsupported by other capabilities.

• Mustafa Kemal AtatürkNarrower topic: The Ottoman Empire’s defeat created the crisis from which Atatürk’s national movement arose.

• IUPACRelated: The war disrupted scientific ties and shaped the postwar effort to rebuild international cooperation.

• Modernist poetryRelated: The war intensified modernist poetry’s engagement with violence, loss, and cultural rupture.

• Trench warfareNarrower topic: Its Western Front became the best-known setting for prolonged trench warfare.

• German Revolution of 1918–1919Narrower topic: Defeat in the war discredited the German monarchy and intensified demands for political change.

• Literary modernismRelated: Its devastation deepened modernist writers’ distrust of inherited cultural narratives.

• Second Polish RepublicRelated: Its outcome dismantled the empires that had partitioned Poland.

• Occupational therapyRelated: Wartime rehabilitation accelerated occupational therapy’s growth in the United States.

• February RevolutionRelated: Military losses, shortages, and transport breakdown intensified unrest in Russia.

• German ExpressionismRelated: The war disrupted the prewar movement and reshaped artists’ subjects and outlooks.

• Blood transfusionRelated: Wartime casualties drove wider use of blood storage and transfusion.

• Order of the British EmpireRelated: The Order was created to recognize civilian service connected with wartime effort.

• Austria-HungaryRelated: Military defeat and wartime strain accelerated the monarchy’s collapse.

• InternationalismRelated: The war tested internationalist opposition to nationalism and divided socialist movements.

• Balance of powerRelated: Its alliance system shows how efforts to secure power can intensify a crisis into general war.

• Ludwig WittgensteinRelated: Wittgenstein drafted much of the Tractatus while serving in the Austro-Hungarian army.

• Belle ÉpoqueCompared with: Its outbreak ended the era’s relative peace and shattered its image of uninterrupted progress.

• Sykes–Picot AgreementNarrower topic: The agreement was part of Allied planning during the war against the Ottoman Empire.

• German nationalismRelated: Wartime nationalism intensified loyalty and sacrifice while defeat destabilized the German Empire.

• Dissolution of Austria-HungaryRelated: Austria-Hungary's defeat in this war made the empire's survival untenable.

• Art DecoRelated: The postwar appetite for novelty and modernity shaped the setting in which Art Deco flourished.

• ArtilleryRelated: Industrial-scale artillery fire caused immense casualties and defined many fronts.

• Ernest HemingwayNarrower topic: His service as an ambulance driver in Italy informed fiction shaped by combat and its aftermath.

• Erwin RommelNarrower topic: Rommel's early combat service and reputation for infantry leadership began in this war.

• American modernismRelated: The war intensified modernists’ doubts about inherited cultural and artistic certainties.

• Second InternationalRelated: Most major socialist parties supported wartime credits, breaking the International's commitment to oppose war.

• SonarNarrower topic: The submarine threat accelerated research into underwater acoustic detection.

• Congress of BerlinNarrower topic: The unresolved rivalries surrounding the Congress’s Balkan settlement contributed to a volatile regional order before 1914.

• Easter RisingRelated: The organizers saw Britain’s wartime commitments as an opportunity for revolt.

• International Union of Pure and Applied ChemistryRelated: The war interrupted cooperation among chemists and shaped the circumstances of IUPAC’s founding.

• July CrisisNarrower topic: The July Crisis was the immediate diplomatic pathway into this broader war.

• EuropeRelated: Its collapse of empires redrew Europe's borders and altered its balance of power.

• Fritz HaberRelated: The war redirected Haber’s expertise toward explosives and chemical weapons.

• Edwardian eraNarrower topic: The war began in 1914, the date often used to close the extended Edwardian era.

• Jazz AgeRelated: The war reshaped society and left a postwar generation wary of inherited values.

• Military doctrineBroader topic: Its battlefield stalemate drove major revisions in tactics and operational thinking.

• Agatha ChristieRelated: Christie worked as a nurse and pharmacy dispenser during the war, learning about medicines and poisons.

• AllianceRelated: The prewar alignment system became central to explanations of how a regional crisis widened.

• Machine gunRelated: Machine guns became defining weapons of its industrialized trench warfare.

• Chemical warfareNarrower topic: The war saw chemical weapons deployed on a large scale by industrial armies.