At the end of 1914, the Western Front had taken the shape of trench warfare. The Russian offensive in the east had collapsed. The Russian Tsarist army had suffered serious defeats in the conflit with Germany. This was not compensated for by Russian victories over Austria-Hungary. The Western powers were unable to supply any real […]

With their decision to launch the Gallipoli campaign im 1916, The Allied  countries hoped that after the Turkish defeat, Germany would be forced to have to engage significant numbers of their forces to Eastern Europe, weakening  their forces significantly  on the Western Front. In his article Ugur Cenk Deniz Imamoglu (Turkish Historical Society) gives a […]

On June 25th, 1950 North Korea attacked South Korea, crossing the 38th parallel. The Korean War began. UN Security Council resolution 82 condemned the attack and called for the withdrawal of the communist state’s troops from South Korea. But North Korea’s Kim Il-sung was not going to listen. At first, American troops were sent to […]

The Crimean War was yet another conflict between Russia and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) for control of the Black Sea basin. The Western powers sided with Turkey: Great Britain, France and Sardinia, who wanted to prevent Russian expansion in the Middle East. The destruction of Turkey would have meant Russia’s hegemony in the area. In […]