Appeasement failed to stop Hitler: In March 1939, Hitler occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia. In September 1939, he invaded Poland, and Britain declared war.

In the post-WWII, Cold War era, the U.S. and Canada have been close allies. Canada is a founding member of NATO and has ...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND ROOT CAUSES The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has deep historical roots, dating back to the ...

The Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long series of conflicts between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 until 404 BC. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as ...

The war in Burundi began following the October 1993 assassination of President Melchoir Ndadaye by a group of Tutsi army officers. Freely and fairly elected some months before, Ndadaye was the ...

In 1954, the French were finally defeated by the Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. This defeat was formalised in the Geneva Agreement and temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones: a ...