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

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

• Gallipoli campaignNarrower topic: Gallipoli was one of the war’s major campaigns outside the Western Front.

• AppeasementNarrower topic: Its enormous casualties and destruction made another European war especially difficult to contemplate.

• Royal Air ForceNarrower topic: Wartime aviation’s rapid growth made an independent British air force seem necessary.

• Fourteen PointsNarrower topic: The program set out terms for ending this war and addressing its causes.

• George VNarrower topic: It defined George V’s wartime role and intensified anti-German feeling in Britain.

• Kellogg–Briand PactNarrower topic: The war’s devastation created urgency for an international renunciation of war.

• Lost GenerationNarrower topic: Its violence disrupted the beliefs and lives of writers who came of age during it.

• Assassination of Archduke Franz FerdinandNarrower topic: The assassination helped initiate the chain of decisions that expanded into the war.

• Hundred Days OffensiveNarrower topic: The Hundred Days Offensive was the final Allied campaign on the war’s Western Front.

• TankNarrower topic: Trench warfare created the need for protected vehicles that could cross shell-damaged ground.

• Counter-battery fireNarrower topic: Sound ranging and flash spotting developed as armies sought to locate concealed guns.

• Daylight saving timeNarrower topic: Wartime fuel conservation helped prompt early national adoption of clock changes.

• Self-propelled artilleryNarrower topic: The war accelerated experiments with motorized artillery and mobile battlefield weapons.

• Shell shockNarrower topic: The term emerged amid the mass combat and casualty crises of this war.

• Anglo-German naval arms raceNarrower topic: The arms race formed part of the prewar tensions surrounding the conflict, but did not alone cause it.

• Combat air patrolNarrower topic: Fighter patrols emerged as aircraft began contesting control of the skies.

• Lawrence of ArabiaNarrower topic: The film's events unfold within the war's struggle against the Ottoman Empire.

• Czesław MiłoszNarrower topic: Miłosz was born amid the upheavals that redrew the borders of his native region.

• Mechanized infantryNarrower topic: Trench warfare and early tanks prompted experiments in protected infantry mobility.

• Partition of the Ottoman EmpireNarrower topic: The Ottoman defeat alongside the Central Powers made the empire’s territorial settlement possible.

• Remembrance DayNarrower topic: The first observances commemorated those killed in this war.

• Siege of Port ArthurNarrower topic: Observers treated Port Arthur as a preview of trench and artillery warfare later seen on a larger scale.

• Main battle tankNarrower topic: Trench deadlock created the conditions that prompted the first military tanks.

• Paris in the 1920sNarrower topic: The war’s aftermath shaped expatriate movement and the disillusionment associated with the period.

• Siegfried SassoonNarrower topic: Sassoon served on the Western Front and made the war the subject of much of his writing.

• Submachine gunNarrower topic: The close combat of trench warfare created demand for compact automatic weapons.

• Battles of the IsonzoNarrower topic: The Isonzo campaigns were one major front within the wider conflict.

• Christmas truceNarrower topic: The Christmas truce occurred during the war’s first winter, amid expectations that combat would soon end.

• Czechoslovak National CouncilNarrower topic: The war created the diplomatic and military conditions in which the council operated.

• Franz MarcNarrower topic: Marc served in the German army and was killed at Verdun in 1916.

• Gavrilo PrincipNarrower topic: The assassination became a catalyst, but alliances and state decisions turned the crisis into a world war.

• Hungarian irredentismNarrower topic: Hungary’s defeat in this war set the conditions for Trianon and territorial revisionism.

• Mustard gasNarrower topic: Mustard gas first saw large-scale battlefield use during this war.

• Wilfred OwenNarrower topic: The war supplied the violence, military setting, and historical stakes of Owen’s poetry.

• Zimmermann TelegramNarrower topic: The telegram emerged from Germany’s wartime effort to distract and weaken its enemies.

• Depth chargeNarrower topic: German U-boat attacks created the urgent need for a weapon against submerged submarines.

• J. F. C. FullerNarrower topic: The trench stalemate prompted Fuller to search for a decisive role for tanks.

• Oskar PotiorekNarrower topic: Potiorek’s Serbian campaigns were among the war’s first major land operations.