The declaration ended nearly three years of American neutrality in the war since the beginning, and the country's involvement in the conflict lasted for eighteen months before a ceasefire and ...

World War One ended at 11am on 11 November, 1918. This became known as Armistice Day - the day Germany signed an armistice (an agreement for peace) which caused the fighting to stop. People in ...

The peace treaties at the end of WWI have a long afterlife, and nowhere is this more visible than in Central and Eastern Europe. In many respects the region [the Middle East] has still to recover ...