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INDEX

Adlerberg (General),
194
,
203
,
209

Aehrenthal, Alois Lexa von,
4
,
322

Albertini, Luigi,
245

Albert I of Belgium,
324
,
361
,
373

Alexandra (tsarina),
159–160

Alexandria
(yacht),
147–148
,
164
,
166

Alexis, tsarevich,
159
,
160

Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907,
148
,
155

Apis.
See
Dimitrijevitch, Dragutin (“Apis”)

Artamonov, Viktor,
50–51

Asquith, Herbert Henry,
328
,
329
,
330

     
on German diplomacy,
279

     
Home Rule and,
71
,
77
,
250

     
information from Churchill on naval premobilization,
251

     
news of invasion of Belgium and,
374

     
response to news of imminent war in Europe,
313

     
support for intervention/war,
281
,
331
,
332
,
356
,
358
,
360
,
363
,
364
,
365

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand,
20

     
Austrian response to,
28–29
,
30–46

     
British response to,
68–69
,
77

     
car traveled in,
19

     
as cause of First World War,
384–390

     
European response to,
48

     
first attempt,
14–15

     
German response to,
78–80
,
85–86

     
investigation into,
92–94
,
106–107
,
120
,
177

     
locations of assassins,
12–14

     
motivation of Serbs involved,
390–391

     
planning,
6–13

     
response in Belgrade following,
29

     
route of motorcade in Sarajevo,
11–13

     
routes taken by assassins to Sarajevo,
9

     
Russian response to,
48–49
,
55–61

     
weapon used,
18

Austria-Hungary

     
alliance with Germany,
40

     
assassination as factor in lead-up to First World War,
386

     
declaration of war on Serbia,
230
,
244–246
,
249
,
396–397
,
400–401

     
declaration would not annex Serbian territory,
324–325

     
decline as European power,
37
,
40

     
general mobilization,
326

     
isolation of,
84–85

     
mobilization,
115
,
202
,
218–220
,
248–249
,
267
,
287
,
289
,
326

     
need for German support/approval,
42
,
45–46

     
response among government officials to assassination,
30–46

     
response in Vienna to news of assassination,
28–29

     
responsibility for First World War,
391–393
,
400–401

     
shelling of Belgrade,
269
,
270

     
Tisza and demands on Serbia,
110–111
,
112–113
,
115
,
120–121

     
war councils,
106–113
,
136–144
,
325–326

     
See also
Berchtold, Leopold von
;
Franz Josef I
;
Tisza, Stefan

Austrian ultimatum to Serbia

     
British and French knowledge of,
155

     
delay in presenting,
122–124

     
delivery of,
170–171
,
172–175

     
French and Russian response to,
169–170

     
Sazonov on,
157–158

     
Sazonov’s rejection of terms,
186–190

     
Serbian reply to,
197–200
,
232–233

     
timeline for,
137

Austro-Serbian conflict, outcome scenarios,
233–234

Balfour, Arthur,
328

Balkan League (Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro),
25
,
44
,
84

Balkans (c. 1914), map of,
26

Balkan Wars (1912–1913),
25
,
47
,
384
,
388

Bark, Peter,
178
,
183
,
184–185

Barrère, Camille,
328

Battle of the Marne,
383

Bazili, Nikolai,
292

Beauchamp, William,
364
,
365

Belgium

     
British agreement to defend if German armies invaded,
73–74

     
British insistence on respect for neutrality of,
315
,
323–324
,
333
,
360
,
368
,
372

     
German invasion of,
352
,
371
,
373–374
,
377
,
383

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