SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY.--1. Locate Macedonia, the Dobrudja,
Nish, Sofia, Durazzo. 2. Define and explain Mittel-Europa;
"The sick man of Europe." 3. Which nations of the Balkan
peninsula border upon the Black Sea? Which border upon the
Adriatic? Which lie along the Danube? 4. On an outline map of
the Balkan peninsula indicate the races to which the
populations belong and their distribution. 5. We have read in
this chapter that the old Roman province of Dacia developed
later into modern Roumania; can you name the Roman provinces
which correspond to the modern nations of France, Spain,
England, Switzerland? 6. What do you know of the history of
Constantinople prior to its capture by the Turks? 7. Explain
the causes of the second Balkan war. How did the outcome of
this war affect the history of the great European powers?

REFERENCES.--_War Cyclopedia_ (C.P.I.); _Study of the Great
War_ (C.P.I.); Davis, _The Roots of the War_; Hazen, _Europe
since 1815_; and other general histories of recent Europe.




CHAPTER VII

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE GREAT WAR


GERMANY'S RESPONSIBILITY.--Germany's tremendous increase of armaments,
her opposition to arbitration, her hostility to the purpose of the Hague