Eighty-five years ago today, the world took a major step toward war. On September 28, the four major European powers, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, signed the Munich pact, which ...
World War II broke out when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. A once preventable war had become inevitable -- and would soon become global -- due to three fatal decisions. Most ...
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel argued Tuesday that Russia would have invaded Ukraine much earlier if not for steps by Germany and its allies, as German officials face accusations their ...
When one says appeasement, one would normally think of dialogue, compromise, moderation, civilization. Personally, I think of détente, rapprochement, truce, reconciliation. I think of the necessity of ...
In February 2014, Philippine President Benigno Aquino warned that failure to challenge the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) territorial seizures in the South China Sea would be repeating the 1930’s ...
Israel Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett today bitterly attacked “appeasement” of Germany as “sowing the seeds of new aggression and horror” in his opening address to the U.N. General Assembly today.