The late American historian Paul Schroeder’s interpretation of the causes of World War I focuses on the breakdown of a ...

And because the Great Powers were denying Serbia access ... Thus Bulgarian success in the First Balkan War also attracted the envious gaze of Romania, the largest Balkan state, which had claims ...

The great ideas of freedom and justice now speak ... as national states to the historical issue of the day. The Balkan War disposed of European Turkey, and thereby created the conditions necessary ...

In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into the war on April 6, 1917, The Great War, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed ...

Along the U.S. Atlantic Coast and the West Indies, an undeclared war with France begins; the U.S. wins 9 of 10 naval encounters. The U.S. wars with Great Britain ... as in other Balkan areas ...