The main purpose of Niall Ferguson’s book was to examine the reasons for why the conflicts of the 20th century, particularly the First and Second World Wars were so bloody. Therefore “The War of the World” starts its narration in the latter part of the 19th century examining the factors, which provided considerable influences over the courses and the outcomes of the First World War, the Second World War and also the Cold War.

In 1949, the current set of four Geneva Conventions was ratified and put into force. Subject matters of the Geneva Conventions are the treatment of wounded and sick combatants on land and on sea, of prisoners of war, and of non-combatants. The four conventions have been signed by all countries on this planet. While the international Red Cross is named as the only arbiter in the conventions, Switzerland acts as depository state for them.

During the Second World War, nearly a million women fought alongside their male counterparts and in October 1941, women’s aviation regiments began to be formed.

An opinionated and general analysis of heavy tanks between 1939-1945.

The dropping of the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima had failed to persuade the Imperial Japanese government to formally surrender and thus end the Second World War. Therefore President Harry S. Truman made the decision to launch a second atomic bomb strike against the city of Nagasaki.

The 20th century saw a remarkable shift in the way that vast numbers of people lived, as a result of technological, medical, social, ideological, and political innovation. Due to the continuing industrialization and expanding trade, conflicts started to appear among countries all around the world. Terms like ideology, world war, genocide, and nuclear war entered common usage staring from the 20th century. Among all the conflicts, the Second World War was the most noticeable one, since it influenced the future development of the whole world. I believe that this article could help you understand its significance towards the 20th century History in a deeper manner. In this article, I will compare the developments of the world before and after the Second
World War, so as to help me decide whether we should regard
WWII as the turning point in the 20th century History.

Did the Allied over-estimations of the level of Air threat have a serious effect on the Operation Overlord planning?

The Japanese navy had launched the air strikes against on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbour on the morning of 7th December 1941.

Various internal and external factors allowed the regime of General Franciso Franco to last as long as it did. The Franco regime managed to last longer than the two regimes that allowed it to win the Spanish Civil War, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The Franco regime lasted longer than the other fascist and authoritarian right-wing regimes of Central and Eastern Europe such as those of Hungary and Romania.

Ashared history has frequently divided Europeans as much as it has united them. Europeans are or have been divided in most other ways yet diversity is not always the same as being divided. There will be an evaluation of the factors that could have made a shared history more a divisive factor than a unifying factor amongst Europeans.