One of the most immediate and obvious changes that WWI brought about was the collapse of longstanding empires. But what ...

German commander Alfred Graf von Schlieffen developed a plan against France and Russia that would have a profound effect on World War I.

The First World War, also known as "The Great War" or "The War to End All Wars," was one of the most devastating conflicts in ...

The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) involved the great powers of Europe - with France, Austria, Russia and Sweden on one side and Britain, Prussia and Hanover on the other.

To facilitate this, he engineered a war with France -- the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. ... Great Britain, rather than being the main antagonist of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: France had an opportunity to throw a serious wrench in Hitler’s plans. France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 for complex reasons. The proximate cause, of course ...

France had extensive assets available to continue its resistance against the Axis powers. The French Fleet was the most notable of these; France possessed two of the world’s most modern fast ...

World War I was also the first major conflict to occur after the camera became more accessible. Take a look at photos of what happened before, during and after the U.S. joined the “Great War ...

And on April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on the German Empire, joining France, Great Britain, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Italy.

On Nov. 11, the day of the armistice ending World War I on the Western Front, the Hapsburg emperor relinquished his duties and released his officials from their oath of loyalty.

Arsène Tchakarian, the last surviving member of the Armenian-led Manouchian network, which fought alongside the French resistance against the Nazi occupiers during World War II, died Aug. 4 at a ...