In the 17th century, tensions between northern European Protestant states and southern European Catholic states were inflamed by the Jesuits working …
History's Bloodiest Conflicts
A larger percentage of Germans died in the Thirty Years War than in WWI, and the French revolution saw the extrajudicial execution of thousands of nobles. These historic conflicts are some of the bloodiest in history.
World War I saw America fighting overseas against an industrialized foe for the first time in its most violent conflict since the Civil War. During …
During the Vietnam War there were four standalone strategic bombing campaigns, lasting from just a matter of days to several years. They …
Pizarro and his 168 conquistadors were the first Europeans to make contact with the Inca Empire. In roughly less than two decades, the Spanish – many …
What is a revolution? The simplest answer would be a forceful change of a political regime. Every revolution in history represents a violent …
The French Revolution brings a defined set of associations to one’s mind: the exemplary decadent aristocracy, the guillotine that became synonymous …
In the second year of WWII, Hitler’s Germany invaded the Soviet Union on the 22nd of June 1941. The German army advanced rapidly, and by September …