AAbdication of Kaiser and Crown Prince,280-288,320,321,322.Abdul-Hamid, Sultan, and the Albanians,142,164,165.Achenbach, von,34.Adlerberg, Count,13.Admiralty, English,154;Staff, German,240,250.Agadir affair,145.Agrarian Conservatives,54.Agreement, Anglo-Russian,116;German-French, Morocco,126,127.Airplanes,276,334.Aix-la-Chapelle,262,278.Albania,142,163-169.Albedyll, von,8.Aldershot,312.Alexander II, of Russia,14,16,17,18,19,28.Alexander III, of Russia,313,329.Alexandra, Queen, of England,127,130.Algeciras Conference,111,115,126,144,145,312.Alliance, Triple,8,251,253;Double,8,306;Anglo-Japanese,69;Balkan,170;German-English,310,311.Alsace-Lorraine,60,61,89,252,258,306.Althoc, Privy Councilor,107.Althoff, von,183,198.America.SeeUnited States.America, Central,73.Anastasia, Grand Duchess,252.Andrassy,5,273.Annihilation, policy of,296.Antwerp-Meuse line,275,279.Archives,294,295,301."Areopagus of the Powers,"165.Armistice,274,278,284,285,286,289,290,298,319.Armored ship, first German,48.Army, German,52,62,77,105,223-228,259,274,275,276,277,278,281,284,285,286,287,288,289,290,320,322,331;Russian,10,105,227,254;British,91,142,162."Asia for the Asiatics,"79.Asquith, Herbert Henry,152,153."Assurbanipal,"204.Assyriology,203-207.Astrakhan,254.Austria, alliance with,5;worked with,8;threat against,54;war begun by Germany on,71 n.;if Germany or, should begin war,72;ultimatum to Serbia,248;Serbia's answer to,248;anti-Russian Balkan policy,251;"nothing will be left of Austria,"252;dismemberment of Austria-Hungary,258;elimination of the House of Hapsburg,258;and the Pope,265,266;Emperor Charles's vacillation,272;peace offer of,273;deceives Germany,273;Russo-Austrian conflict of influence in Serbia,307;Germany's ally,307.Automobile Club, Imperial 45,46.B"Babel and the Bible,"204,218.Baden,285,287,321,340.Bagdad Railway,89,90.Balholm,247.Balkans,106,165,199,200.Ballin, Albert,3,107,146,147,148,150,151,152,153,154,158.Baltic,105.Baltisch-Port,169-170,249."Baralong" murderers,264.Barrère, Camille,126.Battlefields of 1870-71,330.Bavaria,60.Belgian Documents,127.Belgium,42,43,309,326.Bender, Herr von,29-30,31.Benedetti, Ambassador,326.Benedictine monks,216.Bennigsen, Rudolf von,30,31,32.Berchem, Count,54,329.Bergen,312.Berlin Treaty,10,11,14;Congress,2,15,17,20,327.Berlin, University of,199;Palace Chapel at,218.Bertram, Prince-Bishop,208.Beseler, Max,187.Bethmann Hollweg, von, Chancellor,124-134;"the governess,"132;enjoys confidence of foreign countries,134;dismissed,134;his diplomatic power,138,246;mistakes in 1914,328;wished to avoid war,328;tried to keep England out of the Entente,328.Beuron Congregation,216.Biebrich-Mosbach,179.Bismarck, Bill,3.Bismarck, Count Herbert,2,5,6,12,27,28,76.Bismarck, Prince, Chancellor,1-53;greatness as a statesman,1;services to Prussia and Germany,1;creator of the German Empire,1;Memoirs,3,4;fight against the Kaiser,2;appreciation by the Prince of Prussia (later the Kaiser),2;majordomo of the Hohenzollerns,3;and the harbor of Hamburg,4;the third volume of his reminiscences,4;continental preparations,7;his Congress,10;"honest broker,"10,11;"Now I am driving Europe four-in-hand,"11;retirement of,18,53;and the Socialists,40;his labor views,41;and the Vulcan shipyards,48;succeeded by Caprivi,54;fight his successor,55;"misunderstood Bismarck,"55,76;reconciliation with Kaiser,92;eightieth birthday,93;"Germany must never become England's dagger on the European continent,"311;and the Congress of Berlin,327.Bismarckian theory,102.Björköagreement,201,249,315.Bissing, General von,43.Black Sea,105,191,192.Blockade, English,318.Boches,262.Bolsheviki,181,254,284.Bonn,214.Bonnal, General,312.Book of the German Fleet,184.Bosmont,254.Bosnia,324,326.Bötticher, His Excellency von,3,38.Boyd-Carpenter, W., Bishop of Ripon,213.Brandenburg,196.Brandenburg,231.Breitenbach, Paul von,180,181,182.Brest-Litovsk,14,16,136,253,335;Treaty of,335.Brest mission,4.Bucharest, Treaty of,335.Buckingham Palace,142.Budde, Hermann,178,179.Bülow, Prince von,68;Chancellor,95-123,192,194,195,233,310,311,314,315.Burchard, Doctor von,156,157-158,159.Burian, Stefan,272.CCabinet, German War,23,277,280;Civil,25,35,134,136;English,310,311.Cæsar,295.Calmuck Cossacks,254.Cambon, Jules,252.Cambridge, Duke of,91.Canal, Central,112,174,177,178,181;Elbe-Trave,178;Kaiser Wilhelm,163,181,238-239;Panama,181,238.Canton,78.Cape-to-Cairo Railway and Telegraph line deal,87-88,89.Caprivi, General Leo von,51;Chancellor,54-58;opposition of Bismarck,57.Carlsbad,247,250.Caro, Professor,206.Cassel, Sir Ernest,146,147,150,152,159.Cassino, Monte,217.Caucasus,207,254.Causes of the World War,127,252.Centrists,33,68.Central Powers,81,257,316,317.Chamberlain, Joseph,68,91,104,186,310,311.Charles, Emperor, agreement with Kaiser,272;secret dealings with the Entente,273;"When I go to the Germans, I agree to everything they say, and when I return home, I do whatever I please,"273.Charlotte, Grand Duchess,172.Charlottenburg,196,201.Chih-li, Gulf of,67.China,64,106.Chinese Empire,78.Chirol, Sir Valentine,85,86.Church, of England,213;St. Mary's (Jerusalem),216.Churchill, Winston,150,152,153."Citizens' Book of Laws,"93,187."Civis Germanus sum,"183.Clemenceau, Georges,319,325.Clemen, Professor Paul,260.Coaling stations,64,69-70,73,74.Cologne,180,288.Colonial acquisitions,7,9.Colonies, German,7,8,9,11,12,55,56,57.Commerce, world,310.Comparative Historical Tables from 1878 to the Outbreak of the War in 1914,251,253,297,298,299 n.Conference, London,296,297.Conflict, Russo-English,10.Conflict of Influence, Russian-Austrian,306.Congress of Berlin,2,327.Connaught, Duke of,102.Conrad, Consistorial Councilor,215.Conservatives,31,32,33,54,111,112,114,119,122,174.Constantine, Crown Prince (of Greece),28.Constantine the Great,218.Constantinople,10,14,15,16,28,90,105,106,253.Constitution, German,2,139-141,293.Constitutionel,326.Conversations with Christ,215.Costheim,179.Court, international,295.Cronberg-Friedrichshof situation,148.Crown Council, German,247,272;Russian,252,253.Crown Prince, German,286,287.Cuniberti,240.Cuxhaven,107,156.DDaily Telegraph, London,118,120;"interview,"118.Dardanelles, offer of, to Russia,14.Dar-es-Salaam,56."Debating society,"280.Delbrück, Klemens von,282.Delcassé, Théophile,108,257.Delitzsch, Professor Friedrich,204,218."Deutschland über alles,"186.Dirschau,177.Disraeli, Benjamin,11,327.Documents, secret,294.Dollar, American,317.Donaueschingen,119."Dormition,"216.Dorpat, University of,200.Dörpfeld, Professor Wilhelm,204,205.Downing Street,70.Dreadnaughts,238,239,240,241.Drews, Bill, Minister of Interior,281.Dryander, Doctor Ernest,214.Duhn, Professor,206.Duma, Great,313,314;new,314.Durnovo, Madame,192,193.EEbert, Imperial Chancellor,287,288.Eckartsau,119.Edward VII, of England,74,