Category: European history

Europe 1915

Central Power Breakthrough in the East

Italy joined the Allies in May, but the rest...

Europe 1916

Battle of Verdun

In February 1916, the Germans launched an...

Europe 1916

Somme and Brusilov Offensives

With Verdun still raging, British and French...

Europe 1917

Collapse of the Eastern Front

The Brusilov Offensive was to be...

Europe 1917

United States Enters the War

With Russia crumbling, Germany moved to...

Europe 1917

Kerensky Offensive

Although the Russian Empire had ended in the...

Europe 1917

October Revolution in Russia

Following the failure of the Kerensky...

Europe 1917

Bolsheviks Gain Control in Russia

By December 1917, Lenin’s Bolsheviks...

Europe 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

With Russia helpless against the German...

Europe 1918

German Spring Offensive

With the war against Russia ended, Germany was...

Europe 1918

Allied Hundred Days Offensive

The German Spring offensives had ground to a...

Europe 1918

Collapse of the Central Powers

The Allied advances of August and September...

Europe 1918

German Revolution

The collapse of the other Central Powers in...

Europe 1918

Armistice Day

Following the German Revolution of November...

Europe 1918

New Countries in Eastern Europe

With the end of the Great War and the collapse...