Shidehara Kijūrō was more motivated by trade agreements than imperialistic pursuits. This world view was not shared with the Japanese military who were trigger happy when it came to China. […]
Konoe Fumimaro strongly believed that Japan could defeat China in 1937. That one miscalculation cost Konoe his entire political career and plunged Japan deeper into a war it could never win. […]
What made Japan surrender was the fear that the Soviet attack generated. With thousands of Japanese soldiers taken by the Soviets as POW, it came just four miles short of Japan proper. […]
Revolutions don’t happen in a day. They are long-running disruptions that can take many years to build up and erupt. They require mass support and compel the complacent to risk everything for a cause. […]
Revolutions arise because of different crises, most common being a state’s attempt to modernize and reform. Having a singular message allows revolutionaries to mount an effective attack against the old system. […]
Revolutions are chaotic and explosive. However, revolutionaries want people to romanticize the revolutions so that they are forever willing to make the necessary sacrifices. […]
The accounts of Charlemagne’s life are at times biased as they give us Charlemagne’s side of the story. However, they do provide a lot of information about Charlemagne and his reign. […]
Charlemagne was much praised by his contemporaries. In fact, there is even a prize in his name for those who work toward the unification of the peoples of Europe. However, not everyone has shared the same opinion about the ‘father of Europe’.. […]
For more than 300 years, starting from 476, there had been a multitude of kings and kingdoms in Europe. All this changed when Charlemagne was crowned the emperor of western Europe in 800. […]
Charlemagne was a proud Frank. Although he loved to meet foreigners and recruited them to his court, it was a place where his scholars hurled ethnic slurs at one another. […]
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