<a href="http://margaretmacmillan.com/">Margaret MacMillan</a> is a former Warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford University and a professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of several books on international history including Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World; Nixon and Mao: the Week that Changed the World; and The War that Ended Peace: the Road to 1914.

Margaret MacMillan

Margaret MacMillan is a former Warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford University and a professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of several books on international history including Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World; Nixon and Mao: the Week that Changed the World; and The War that Ended Peace: the Road to 1914.

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World War I pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan. New military technology resulted in unprecedented carnage. By the time the war was over and the Allied Powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.

World War I

World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy in 1945. Explore the battles, leaders and atrocities from the war and its impact on geopolitics and humankind.

World War II

Though the 19th century saw the rise of populism, the labor movement and Jacksonian democracy, it also ushered in the Gilded Age, when men like Cornelius Vanderbilt and J. P. Morgan wielded vast control over politics and business.

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Why the U.S. Has Spent 200 Years Flip‑Flopping Between Isolationism and Engagement