Curated category
Late modern Europe
- Industrial RevolutionIn 1799, French envoy Louis-Guillaume Otto announced that France had entered the race to industrialise. This marked the earliest recorded use of the phrase…
- Warsaw PactThe Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, hosted a signing ceremony on the 14th of May 1955. Eight nations gathered to establish the Treaty of Friendship…
- Second Thirty Years' WarCharles de Gaulle stood before a crowd in Bar-le-Duc on the 28th of July 1946. He spoke of the drama of the Thirty Years War that France had just won.
- AppeasementIn the early 1930s, a deep psychological scar from World War I shaped British foreign policy. The trauma of the Great War between 1914 and 1918 left a…
- World War IIThe Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939 and ended on the 2nd of September 1945. This global conflict involved nearly every country in the…
- European Civil WarA French satirical cartoon map of Europe in 1870 shows a continent fractured by political lines. This image captures the era when historians began to view…