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The 394 pages that link to World War I, each with the reason it gives.
Gallipoli campaignNarrower topic: Gallipoli was one of the war’s major campaigns outside the Western Front.
IsolationismRelated: Its casualties and aftermath strengthened American opposition to another European war.
Total warBroader topic: Industrial armies, home-front mobilization, and blockade made it a defining total-war case.
Alexander FlemingRelated: Fleming’s wartime work in military hospitals exposed him to the limits of treating infected wounds.
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.
C. S. LewisRelated: Lewis served in the British Army and was wounded in France in 1918.
Fourteen PointsNarrower topic: The program set out terms for ending this war and addressing its causes.
Historical causationBroader topic: Its outbreak is explained through both the assassination crisis and longer-term rivalries.
RationingRelated: Wartime shortages led governments, including Britain’s, to introduce rationing.
Universum Film AGRelated: Wartime propaganda concerns helped prompt UFA’s creation.
VorticismRelated: The war disrupted the circle and ended Vorticism’s brief collective activity.
Air interdictionRelated: Early aircraft attacked enemy communications and movement, foreshadowing later interdiction missions.
Anglo-Japanese AllianceRelated: Japan entered the war against Germany, consistent with its alliance with Britain.
De StijlRelated: Neutral Netherlands became a setting for artists seeking a new social and artistic order.
German Expressionist cinemaRelated: Defeat and upheaval formed the immediate historical backdrop to the movement’s emergence.
Jean CocteauRelated: Cocteau’s wartime ambulance service and postwar artistic networks formed part of his early experience.
WarBroader topic: Industrialized warfare and alliance escalation made this conflict a defining modern case.
Weimar cinemaRelated: Defeat and revolution transformed German society as the Republic began.
Air powerRelated: Wartime reconnaissance and air combat established early military roles for aircraft.
Democratic peace theoryRelated: Its alliances and shifting regimes complicate claims about democracy and the onset of war.
George VNarrower topic: It defined George V’s wartime role and intensified anti-German feeling in Britain.
History of aviationRelated: The war rapidly expanded aircraft production and military aviation roles.
William Henry BraggRelated: Bragg contributed scientific expertise to British wartime work on submarine detection.
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.
Treaty of Bucharest (1913)Related: The treaty’s unsettled rivalries contributed to tensions in the region before 1914.
War poetryBroader topic: Its industrialized trench warfare produced a large body of soldier-poets and anti-heroic verse.
Aristide BriandRelated: Its devastation and aftermath shaped Briand’s pursuit of security and reconciliation.
Assassination of Archduke Franz FerdinandNarrower topic: The assassination helped initiate the chain of decisions that expanded into the war.
Guillaume ApollinaireRelated: Apollinaire served in the French army, was wounded, and wrote wartime poetry.
Hundred Days OffensiveNarrower topic: The Hundred Days Offensive was the final Allied campaign on the war’s Western Front.
Military engineeringRelated: Trench systems and large-scale infrastructure made engineering central to prolonged industrial warfare.
Representation of the People Act 1918Related: Wartime service and social change intensified pressure to reform the electorate.
Silver Age of Russian PoetryRelated: The war intensified the crises that preceded the period’s revolutionary rupture.
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.
Joseph SchumpeterRelated: The war and its aftermath formed the political setting for Schumpeter’s brief public service in Austria.
MilitarismBroader topic: Prewar arms competition and military planning contributed to a crisis that leaders struggled to contain.
Piet MondrianRelated: The war kept Mondrian in the Netherlands, where contact with Dutch artists helped shape De Stijl.
Population transferRelated: Its collapse of empires created new minorities and migration crises that informed transfer proposals.
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.
Swiss neutralityRelated: Switzerland remained outside the fighting while mobilizing to defend its borders.
War economyBroader topic: Its prolonged fronts forced states to coordinate industry, labor, and supplies on a new scale.
Anglo-German naval arms raceNarrower topic: The arms race formed part of the prewar tensions surrounding the conflict, but did not alone cause it.
Anthony EdenRelated: Eden served as an army officer in the war before entering Parliament.
BalkansRelated: The assassination in Sarajevo helped trigger the crisis that expanded into the war.
Billy MitchellRelated: Mitchell gained operational experience directing American aviation during the war.