According to Sheffield, the First World War began for two fundamental reasons: “First, decision-makers in Berlin and Vienna chose to pursue a course that they hoped would bring about significant ...

The First World War began, for both the Central Powers and democratic Allies, as quick campaigns, primarily focused on Berlin blocking the interference of France in German Imperial designs in Ukraine.

Even when the Allies began catching up ... The Germans had pioneered the use of air warfare during the First World War. Despite having been defeated in that conflict, German military strategists ...

Almost five months after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and the ambitious powers of the world began the First World War, tearing the continent into a muddy, broken remnant of its former ...

The perennially controversial question of “Who Started World War I,” is revisited by Prof. Mombauer (Open University, U.K.), in this thoroughly revised edition of her The Origins of the First World ...

The First World War generally is not as prominent in the ... but there is no mention of soccer whatsoever. Even when I started researching, the soccer element was just a footnote.

Four years after this essay was written, the First World War began. Many accounts state that the war began with a sense of jubilation. Victory crowns the just. It was not just the men who believed ...