CHAPTER XL. THE INTERNATIONAL CATASTROPHE OF 1914 AND THE

CLOSE OF THE GREAT POWER PERIOD

§ 1. The armed peace before the Great War 475

§ 2. Imperial Germany 477

§ 3. The spirit of Imperialism in Britain and Ireland 486

§ 4. Imperialism in France, Italy, and the Balkans 499

§ 5. Russia still a Grand Monarchy in 1914 502

§ 6. The United States and the Imperial idea 503

§ 7. The immediate causes of the Great War 508

§ 8. A summary of the Great War up to 1917 513

§ 9. The Great War from the Russian collapse to the armistice 524

§ 10. The political, economic, and social disorganization caused by the Great War 532

§ 11. President Wilson and the problems of Versailles 543

§ 12. Summary of the first Covenant of the League of Nations 558

§ 13. A general outline of the treaties of 1919 and 1920 562

§ 14. A forecast of the “next war” 567

§ 15. The state of men’s minds in 1920 572