On 28 June 1914, two gunshots in Sarajevo helped set Europe on the road to the deadliest war the world had yet experienced. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, …
On 2 April 1982, Argentine forces invaded the British-administered Falkland Islands, known in Argentina as the Islas Malvinas. The invasion brought a long-running sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom into open war. Britai…
Why did the United States lose the Vietnam War despite possessing overwhelming advantages in aircraft, artillery, technology, money, and industrial power? The simplest answer is that the United States was very good at winning many individual bat…
When Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945, there was no single emotion shared by all Germans. The country was devastated, millions of people had lost relatives or homes, cities lay in ruins, and millions of refugees and displaced people were moving …
