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World War I
The 1914-1918 global conflict and its consequences.
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- How did Ivo Andrić's own experience of Bosnia's shift from Ottoman to Austro-Hungarian rule shape his fiction?
- How did Moseley's death change policy on how nations deployed scientists during wartime?
- How did the outbreak of the First World War both confirm and fail to validate Angell's thesis?
- How does the fate of Jacques Thibault illustrate the collision between pacifism and 1914?
- How far back did the Quakers' tradition of cross-conflict relief work go before the 1947 prize?
- How soon after La Fontaine's prize did the First World War begin?
- How thoroughly were the Hague Conventions violated within a decade of being signed?
- How was Schwarzschild able to derive the solution while serving as an artillery officer on the Russian front?
- What did Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points propose for a new postwar international order?
- What historical event, four years later, would test the peace movement the Bureau had built?
- What kind of work was the International Committee of the Red Cross doing on the front lines of World War One in 1917?
- What role did Fritz Haber play in Germany's chemical weapons programme during the First World War?
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- What role did Theodore Roosevelt play in ending the Russo-Japanese War?
- What stance did Spitteler take in his 1914 lecture on Swiss neutrality, and why was it unusual for the time?
- Where were the peace negotiations that produced the Treaty of Portsmouth held?
- Why did both France and Germany view Rolland's wartime writing from Switzerland with suspicion?
- Why did the Swedish Academy choose to award the Literature prize while every other Nobel committee reserved theirs in 1916?
- Why did the diplomatic machinery Root built fail its first serious test in August 1914?
- Why might a neutral Denmark, in the middle of a European war, have produced two laureates writing about the difficulty of living well?
- Why was Bárány still a prisoner of war in Russia when his Nobel Prize was awarded?
- Why was the International Labour Organization founded as part of a peace settlement?