A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

Index A-101

Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification

(POUM) (Spain), 1045

workhouses, 383, 785, 786

Workmen’s Compensation Law (Great Britain;

1897), 785

World Bank, 1165, 1204, 1216

World Congress of the Petty Bourgeoisie

(1899), 771

World Trade Center attack (2001), 1108,

1234

World Trade Organization, 1232, 1232

World War I, 888-926, 905, 1012

agriculture and, 995

airplanes in, 895-96, 896

armistice and peace in, 921-23, 945

assessment of causes of, 882-84, 886-88,

926

Balkan conflicts preceding, 875-76

casualties in, 892, 895, 899, 904, 906,

907, 923-24, 924, 960

eastern front, 901, 902, 910

economic effects of, 923-25, 977-82, 978

final stages of, 914-23

French Plan XVII in, 885

home front in, 897-99, 910-14

immediate causes of, 882-84, 886-88

impact of, 923-25, 924, 926

mutinies in, 914, 917-18

national and ethnic challenges after,

968-82

nature of war in, 892-99

opposition to, 912

origins of, 647, 863

outbreak of, 888-92

outside Europe, 903, 919

resolution of, 956-58

Russian Revolutions and, 928-29, 931,

932-33, 933, 934, 935-36, 937-38,

939-40, 945,951

Schlieffen Plan in, 884-86, 887, 889, 891

shell shock in, 894

submarines in, 897, 904, 907, 912, 913,

914,915, 922, 964

trench warfare in, 892-95, 921

western front, 900, 904-7, 920

women in, 910-1 1

see also Versailles, Treaty of (1919)

World War II, 1057-1103

air campaigns in, 1092, 1101, 1102, 1110

Allied advances in, 1086-87, 1087

anti-Nazi resistance in, 1073, 1082-86,

1095, 1117, 1130

casualties in, 1062, 1071, 1084, 1095, 1096,

1101, 1102, 1109, 1110, 1190-91

Catholic Church in, 1080

code breakers in, 1066

coming of, 1049-57

conditions at end of, 1109

conscription in, 1065

culture in years after, 1136-40

displaced persons in, 1115-17, 111 5, 1117

early years of, 1057-73

ethnic cleansing in, 1110

fall of France in, 1061-63

Jews in, 1067, 1073, 1076-80, 1082, 1085,

1101-2, 1110

Nazi “New European Order” in, 1073-75

Nazis and collaborators punished after,

1117-19, 1118

Normandy invasion in, 1086, 1095-97,

1096

number of victims of, 1075-80, 1085, 1102

Pearl Harbor bombing in, 1065, 1070, 1071

“phony war” in, 1059, 1062

Potsdam settlement after, 1110-12

radar used in, 1064

rebuilding after, 1105

women in, 1065, 1086

Wren, Christopher, 303

Wretched of the Earth, The (Fanon), 1138

Wright, Orville, 754

Wright, Wilbur, 754, 817

Wurttemberg, 160, 486, 488, 502, 575, 619,

629, 636, 731

Wyclif, John, 88, 89

Yalta Conference (1945), 1097, 1098, 1098,

1099

Yeats, William Butler, 704

Yeltsin, Boris, 1207-9, 1207

Yom Kippur War, 1145

Young, Arthur, 356

“Young Czech” movement, 681

Young Italy, 604, 621, 652, 656

Young Plan, 999

Young Turks, 877, 877, 878

youth revolution, 1176, 1178-80

Ypres, Battle of (1914), 892, 895, 899

Ypres, Battle of (1917), 899, 918

Ypsilantis, Prince Alexander, 590

Yugoslavia, 1004, 1015, 1016, 1031, 1032

Austrians in, 970

break-up of, 1177, 1209-13, 1211

Catholic Church in, 970

creation of, 922, 969, 970

Dayton Peace Agreement, 1211, 1213

ethnic conflicts in, 1190

as independent of Soviet Union, 1135,

1152, 1154, 1190

Italian conflict with (1919), 1005

in Little Entente, 969

Orthodox Church in, 970