Category: European history

Europe 1913

Aftermath of the Balkan Wars

At the Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria ceded...

Europe 1914

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Serbia’s sudden expansion in the Balkan...

Europe 1914

Outbreak of the Great War

On July 28, Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia,...

Europe 1914

Great Retreat

The first weeks of WWI saw a confusing array...

Europe 1914

Stalemate on the Western Front

By mid-September, Germany had been stopped in...

Europe 1915

Gallipoli Campaign

The Ottoman Turks had entered the War on the...

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...