Terms: WWI

This is by no means a complete list for WWI (there is also one posted from last year that is relevant), but it’s a foundation…

  • German ‘Sonderweg’ / ‘Mitteleuropa’
  • A.J.P. Taylor ‘Timetable’ Theory
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • Tsar Nicholas II
  • Admiral Tirpitz / U-boat / Unrestricted submarine warfare / Lusitania
  • Gen. von Moltke / Gen. von Schlieffen / Eric Ludendorff / Paul von Hindenburg / Eric von Falkenhayn
  • Bethman-Hollweg
  • Herbert Asquith / David Lloyd George / Winston Churchill / Lord Kitchner / Gen. Haig
  • July Crisis 1914 / Blank Cheque
  • Leuven / Rheims
  • Battles of Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg, Gallipoli, Verdun, Somme, Passchendale
  • Col. Kustafa Kemal
  • T.E. Lawrence
  • Georges Clemenceau, “I wage war!”
  • Treaties of Brest-Litovsk/ Versailles, St. Germaine / Article 231 / Rhineland / Polish Corridor
  • Lenin / Trotsky / Bolshivism
  • Igor Stravinsky ‘Rites of Spring’ (1913) / Ballet Russes
  • Modernism /Dada / Bauhaus
  • Otto Dix / Käthe Kollwitz / Paul Nash
  • Ernst Jünger / Wilfred Owen / Siefried Sasson / Vera Brittain
  • Rosa Luxemburg / Karl Liebknecht / Spartacus League
  • Miracle on the Vistula (1920)
  • freikorps / Beerhall Putsch (1923)
  • Einstein, Plank, Heisenberg / New Physics
  • Benito Mussolini / Fascism