Populations around the world were drastically changed at the end of the second world war, but the US saw a steep rise in ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most significant campaigns of World War One, as the Allied forces ... This interactive map shows the victories, defeats and painful stalemate, and how ...

The past 100 years have seen another world war and the rise and fall of the Soviet ... (Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 to see the modern map) ...

World War One ended 11th November 1918 and took the lives ... We look at ways to improve it. Watch how the maps and images of our planet from above have changed over the last two millennia.