Category: Wars & Conflicts

9/11: The Day the World Stopped September 11, 2001, began like an ordinary Tuesday morning in the United States. Within a few hours, normal life had been shattered, and millions of people around the world were watching history unfold in real time. In New York City, two hijacked passenger airplanes were deliberately flown into the…

Gulf War In August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Six months later, after the expiration of a United Nations deadline, a U.S.-led coalition drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. By the 1980s, military historians were predicting that a future major conflict might begin not because of the Cold War, but as a result of tensions in…

Fall of the Berlin Wall On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall opened after 28 years of dividing East and West Berlin, becoming one of the defining moments in the collapse of Communist rule in Eastern Europe. The Berlin Wall was both a symbol and an instrument of division, and its removal was an equally…

  Outbreak of World War II: How the Second World War Began Introduction World War II began in Europe on 1 September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Two days later, on 3 September 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany after Germany refused to withdraw its forces. The outbreak of the war marked…