La guerre de Corée

On September 11, 2001, at 8:46 a.m., an airliner crashed into one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in the heart of New York City. While the event was already being broadcast live around the world, a second plane crashed into the South Tower, followed by two others into the Pentagon and Pennsylvania. In total, nearly 3000…

On March 25, 1957, the representatives of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy met in the prestigious Capitol Palace to sign the Treaty of Rome, which founded the European Economic Community. La grande explication returns the great stages of the European construction, of its origins…

On June 4, 1989, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. For six weeks, they demanded the establishment of a democratic regime. But around midnight on June 4, the army opened fire and fired machine guns into the crowd. The peaceful demonstration turned into a bloodbath. La grande explication…

On November 20, 1945, just as World War II ended, the largest trial in history began in the courthouse in Nuremberg, Germany. Twenty-one of the most senior Nazi leaders sat in the dock and were about to appear before an international military tribunal. La grande explication looks back at this unprecedented trial which, for more than…

On July 17, 1945, as World War II was coming to an end, the heads of state of the three great Allied powers - the USSR, the United States and the United Kingdom - met in Potsdam, a southwestern suburb of Berlin. Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman and Winston Churchill wanted to endorse the Yalta agreements and prepare for the world to come. …

On February 23, 1917, on the occasion of the International Women's Day, thousands of women demonstrators march through the streets of Petrograd, exhausted by the war and the ever worsening living conditions. The peaceful gathering soon turns into an insurrection. This is the beginning of the Russian Revolution which, in barely…