Glossary
The glossary includes essential terms related to the person, life, and work of Chesterton. For reasons of space it must inevitably be incomplete. It includes the most important people – family, friends, contemporaries and adversaries -, the most significant places – streets, neighborhoods, buildings, literary, cultural and religious associations – and the most important public activities – conferences, debates, meetings, congresses , election campaigns and travel.
There are currently 2 terms in this directory beginning with the letter F.
First World War
Military conflict which took place in Europe, the Middle East and Africa between 1914 and 1918; it pitted the Austro-Hungarian, German and Ottoman empires with Bulgaria against the so-called Allies, that is, France, the United States, the British Empire, Serbia and Italy; the motives and causes of the conflict are wide-ranging, but derive from a crisis in the expansion of global empires, where the European Central Powers will see themselves as besieged by the rest and with a right to claim more overseas territories; it was the first war of the industrial era and, as a consequence of its great capacity for destruction and death, lead to not only the end of the Age of Empires, but also to a profound collective moral crisis.