World War I saw fighting on a scale never before seen in history. The number of casualties was staggering. For all of the fighting, however, there was remarkably little progress made on either side. Massive battles that took months to fight ended with little or no territory changing hands. This...

In the year 1956, the Hungarian Revolution was a historic event that directly followed a speech delivered by leader of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev (Britannica Online). The speech was a declaration of war against the oppressors led by Joseph Stalin. Upon encouragement from the newly acquired freedom of criticism...

Having defeated the main enemies of Germany—Denmark, Austria, and France—Bismarck decided that the best way to protect Germany was to preserve the peace created after the wars. His plan therefore was to isolate France as much as possible, allying himself with Russia and Austria—both to generate strength as an alliance...

Between the periods 1950 to 1959, the economy of West Germany grew rapidly attaining increases of up to 8% percent in gross domestic product (GDP). It surpassed that of most countries in Europe against the expectations of many, owing to the effects of the First World War. Only countries like...

In essence, the period of relative prosperity and population growth in Germany during the 1870s brought on what has been called overexpansion. Germany had won a war, had been unified, and there was hope that the economy would continue to grow by leaps and bounds. Likewise, the new Reich had...