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

XVI Contents

The European Powers in Asia 835 lndiay Southeast

Asia, and China • Japan and China: Contrasting

Experiences • The United States in Asia

Domination of Indigenous Peoples 842 Social

Darwinism • Technological Domination and

Indigenous Subversion • Imperial Economies •

Colonial Administrations

Assessing the Goals of European Imperialism 852

The “Civilizing Mission” • The Economic Rationale •

Imperialism and Nationalism

Conclusion 859

PART SIX CATACLYSM

Chapter 22 The Great War 863

Entangling Alliances 863 Irreconcilable Hatreds •

The Alliance System • Germany and Austria-Hungary

against Russia • Germany Encircled: Russia and France

Ally • Anglo-German Rivalry • British-French

Rapprochement • The First Moroccan Crisis (1905)

The Europe of Two Armed Camps, 1905-1914 874

The Balkan Tinderbox • Instability in Turkey • The

Bosnian Crisis of 1908 • The Second Moroccan Crisis

(T9Ji) • The Balkan Wars

The Final Crisis 881 Assassination in Sarajevo •

The Ultimatum • The Schlieffen Plan • “A Jolly

Little War”

The Outbreak of War 888 Opening Hostilities

The Changing Nature of War 892 Trench Warfare •

War in the Air and on the Seas • The Home Front

The War Rages On 899 The Eastern Front • The

War in the Middle East, Africa, and the Far East • The

Western Front • Futility and Stalemate • Soldiers and

Civilians

The Final Stages of the War 914 The United States

Enters the War • Russia Withdraws from the War •

Offensives and Mutinies • The German Spring

Offensive • The Fourteen Points and Peace

The Impact of the War 923

Conclusion 926