Key Points and Summary - Kyiv’s World War II museum now features today’s foreign fighters in Ukraine—an exhibit unthinkable four years ago. Curators cite “several thousand” Americans and at least 92 U ...

As World War II approached, Germany called on Volksdeutsche living outside the Reich to return and support the Fatherland. This included individuals from the United States with German heritage. Some ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, books by Hastings, Moorhouse, Clavin, and Passmore shed new light on the conflict.

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...

In the winter of 1944, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old then-1st Sgt. Jefferson Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers, were tasked with ...

On August 14, 1945, the Allied Powers accepted Imperial Japan’s unconditional surrender in World War II, delivering a hard-fought American victory in the Pacific and bringing the deadliest war in ...

World War II, which concluded 80 years ago, was a historic event that defined a generation. Tens of millions of people fought brutal oppression and an unfathomable Holocaust. Today, the world ...