The history of Germany goes back to the Roman military campaigns in Germania and the the fall of the Roman Empire when…

What is History? It is a humanistic science which studies and records the political, social, and military events of th…

The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was the political entity that succeeded the empire of Charlemagne. It began…

Signed in 843, the Treaty of Verdun was the peace agreement that put an end to the Carolingian Empire civil war period…

The Carolingian Empire was a Frankish empire established by Charlemagne, king of the Franks, in 800, lasting until 843…

The U-2 incident was a military and geopolitical occurrence and a major public scandal of the Cold War. This internati…

The Treaty of Campo Formio was a peace agreement, which was signed by Count Philipp von Cobenzl, representing Austria,…

In ancient Greece, the Achaean League was a military alliance and confederation of cities, whose inhabitants were Acha…

The Minoan Civilization was a bronze-age culture which arose around 3000 BC on the Greek island of Crete. Preceding th…

The Mycenaean Civilization was an ancient culture that flourished in the Balkan peninsula during the Bronze Age. It wa…

The Samnites were a group of warlike mountain tribes from the southern Apennines, challenging Rome in the political su…

The Etruscans were one of several tribes that inhabited the Italic peninsula in ancient times. They were originally fr…

The Polish Corridor was a strip of land granted to the newly created State of Poland by the Treaty of Versailles of 19…

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major USA national security and geopolitical incident of the Cold War. It raised tensio…

The Berlin Airlift was the Allied humanitarian mission to supply the population of West Berlin with food and fuel, usi…

The 1970s energy crisis began under the Richard Nixon Administration and it got worse during the Presidency of Jimmy C…

The Yalta Conference was an Allied leaders summit held in the port city of Yalta, in the Crimean peninsula, the Soviet…

The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was a political compact of surrender, which Germany was forced to sign by the Allies (…

Most of Germany's territorial losses were the direct result of the Treaty of Versailles, which was signed right af…

The Weimar Republic was the parliamentary republic created on August 11, 1919, in Germany, by the Weimar Constitution.…