Key Point: Despite ambitions of becoming a global colonial empire, Germany was still a Continental power in 1914. If it won the war, it would be through the immense power of its army, not its navy.

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The German sailors understood how futile the battle would be, and decided to prevent it. Their decision played a key role in ending the First World War, and ...

Following the First World War three of the largest European Empires collapsed, with the German Empire being the last, after the November revolution broke out in several harbours and cities, and spread ...

The Social and Political Consequences of the Allied Food Blockade of Germany, 1918-19. N. P. Howard's article shows the determination of Allied governments to destroy the German Revolution in 1918-19 ...

Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century. By Jochen Bittner Contributing Opinion Writer HAMBURG, Germany — It may well be that ...

FREMONT (KPIX) -- The last time a deadly pandemic ravaged the world was one hundred years ago and a woman in Fremont has survived both of them. It is the social aftermath of the calamity that has her ...