Ultimately, France and England broke the Treaty of London. The Allied Powers went back on the promise to give Italy land in return for joining the war on their side. Italy had been in an alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary before the war began. ...
President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Declaration of War against Japan, in December 1941 shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He remained president for the duration of war until his death in office in April of 1945, less than a month before the surrender of Germany. President Harry Truma...
[16][17] As Russia mobilised, Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg before moving towards France, leading Britain to declare war on Germany. After the German march on Paris was brought to a halt, what became known as the Western Front settled into a battle of attrition, with a ...
Germany:InGermany, the homefront faced economic hardship and social upheaval as the war dragged on. Food shortages and inflation led to widespread discontent among the civilian population. The government implemented rationing and propaganda campaigns to maintain support for the war effort, but social ...
With the war having turned decisively against the Central Powers, the peoples of Austria-Hungary lost faith in their allied countries, and even before the armistice in November, radical nationalism had already led to several declarations of independence in south-central Europe in the time after Nove...
its victory in the Franco-Prussian war in 1871. Denmark and Poland, now independent states, also received territories previously owned by Germany. Along with territorial loss, Germany was forced to pay for war damages and decrease the size of its army. Germany’s conditions after the war led ...
gradually melts and recedes from the bottom up, so the records decrease in volume, unseen, unknown and unreported as more and more are selected for destruction. In the age of mass communication we have less access to the truth about history than the generations before us. This is no ...
powerful fleet in the world, and rule over one quarter of the world's population, but with a small army that was not structured for a European land war, was troubled by Germany's expansion and strengthening of its fleet. Many in the German military thought that war with Russia was ...
Germany’s industrious population was growing—to 65 million in 1913—casting an ominous shadow over the French, who, for all their reputation as lovers, were not having babies; France boasted a population of only 39 million.The German education system was broad, deep, and effective, stamping ...
Introduction World War II, a cataclysmic event spanning from 1939 to 1945, reshaped the geopolitical landscape of the 20th century. The conflict resulted in unprecedented human and material loss, with an estimated 70-85 million fatalities, which was about 3% of the world’s population at the ti...