Conflicts occur everywhere in the world. The war in Iraq is one example of conflict between the people of Iraq and Americans. Many innocent lives are lost. World War One is a very big conflict between the countries of Europe. There are many battles of World War One. A very important battle is the Ba...

"Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel was born in 1891. As field marshal he was known best for his capture of 9,000 allied forces during World War I. On the Germans invasion of France in 1940, Rommel commanded the well-known Ghost Division or otherwise known as the German 7th Panzer Division. P...

As Supreme Expeditionary Forces Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower had the top military men of Great Britain and the United States under his command. These men would help him play out the great plans for the long-awaited invasion. Their orders from the Combined Chiefs of Staff were very simple;...

The Failure of the Somme On the 1st July 1916, after a weeklong artillery bombardment; General Haig launched the "Big Push" attack across the river Somme. With the French Army being hard-pressed to the south at Verdun the British intended to breakthrough the German defences in a matter of hours. ...

Semion Bolotin IB HL HISTORY Chronology of Main Dates 428 B.C. World's first democracy in Athens, Greece 300 B.C. Rome managed to defeat Carthage for the second time and gain dominance in Mediterranean. 989 Church council began to implement &q...

Gallipoli (Feb 19 1915 – Jan 9 1916) was an Allied campaign to capture the Turkish capital Constantinople and wrest control of the strategically invaluable Dardanelles straits, thus allowing supply lines to run through the the cut-off Russians. The first planned attack was a British/Frenc...