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The causes of WWI are very complex, however some of the main points were:

(I) The Alliance system which emerged in the 1890s, splitting Europe into two camps of Britain, France and Russia, and Germ...

The functionalist theory claims that Hitler had no long-term coherent plan for the destruction of the Jews. Rather, the Holocaust arose out of various confused policies he implemented, all intended to har...

A series of important event allowed Hitler to establish totalitarian control within Germany in 1933-34. Firstly the Reichstag fire allowed the Nazi party to gain popularity as this was cleverly blamed on ...

Economic significance: The decision to enter ERM in 1990 was economically detrimental as this occured at a time when the £ was valued too highly compared to the Deutschmark, meaning the exchange rate coul...

The February revolution in Russia toppled the Romanov dynasty that had been ruling for 300 years. The revolution thereby was an extremely important event in Russia's history. This revolution, which happen...