World War II

The most cataclysmic conflict in history, World War II reshaped the globe and laid the foundation for the modern world. Use these resources to follow the action from the invasion of Poland to the dropping of the atom bomb.

  • USS Arizona during the Japanese surprise air attack on the American pacific fleet, 7 December 1941
    Timeline of World War II From 1939 to 1945
  • German paratroopers landing
    World War II: Battle of Crete
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Atlantic Charter Conference
    What Was the Atlantic Charter? Definition and 8 Points
  • Soldiers Reaching The Shore on D-Day
    World War II: Invasion of Normandy
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    World War II: Battle of Midway
  • New Yorkers celebrate V-E Day and the end of WWII, holding up newspapers and smiling, black and white photograph.
    When and How Did World War II End?
  • Stalin, FDR, and Churchill at Tehran Conference
    The Postwar World After World War II
  • Photos Benito Mussolini & Adolf Hitler riding together in a car, 1940
    Causes of World War II
  • The World War II memorial is on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
    Famous Americans Killed in World War II
  • Marines at the Battle of Tarawa
    Pacific Island Hopping in World War II
  • FILM 'ENEMY AT THE GATES' BY JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD
    The Top 10 Films About WWII's Eastern Front
  • Battle of Stalingrad
    World War II: Battle of Stalingrad
  • Soldiers during the Battle of Singapore
    The History of World War II's Battle of Singapore
  • Boeing B17 "Flying Fortress" plane
    History of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Germans protesting during the disastrous food situation in the winter of 1947
    The Marshall Plan - Rebuilding Western Europe After WWII
  • Hiroo and Shigeo Onoda
    World War II Japanese Soldier Lt. Hiroo Onoda
  • Attlee, Truman, and Stalin at the Potsdam Conference
    World War II: Potsdam Conference
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    World War II: Yalta Conference
  • The Ludendorff Bridge
    World War II: The Bridge at Remagen
  • Bristol Beaufighter black and white photo
    World War II: Bristol Beaufighter
  • Battle of Berlin
    World War II: Battle of Berlin
  • Navajo Code Talker
    Navajo Code Talkers
  • B-29 Superfortress flying away from the explosion of the atomic bomb.
    The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • Battle Instruction
    World War II: Operation Market-Garden Overview
  • US troops landing on Omaha Beach, Normandy
    World War II Battles
  • Siege of Leningrad
    World War II: Siege of Leningrad
  • Patton in Sicily
    World War II: Invasion of Sicily
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    World War II: Battle of Gazala
  • Casablanca Conference, 1943
    Casablana Conference during World War II
  • Japanese troops entering Manchuria in the wake of the Mukden Incident during the Sino-Japanese War
    Heading Toward World War II in the Pacific
  • Signing of Non-Aggression Pact
    The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
  • View of the radioactive plume from the bomb dropped on Nagasaki City
    The Manhattan Project Timeline
  • U.S. Soldiers on a Nazi monument on V Day in Germany
    America and World War II
  • Admiral Nimitz's Inspection
    Top Five Admirals of World War II
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    An Overview of World War II
  • Hitler And Champerlain Leave Hotel
    World War II: Munich Agreement
  • US Marine on Guadalcanal
    World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal
  • Ships carrying members of the BEF leaving Dunkirk during the evacuation of British troops
    The Battle and Evacuation of Dunkirk
  • Filipino and American troops waiting in formation
    The Bataan Death March
  • A LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One) wading onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach (Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France) on the morning of June 6, 1944. American soldiers encountered the newly formed German 352nd Division when landing. During the initial landing two-thirds of Company E became casualties.
    World War in II Europe
  • Battle of Leyte Gulf
    World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf
  • World War II, Pearl Harbor, 12/7/41
    The Attack on Pearl Harbor
  • German artillery during the Battle of Greece (1941).
    World War II: Battle of Greece
  • Hitler Reviews Troops
    When Did World War II Start?
  • Black and white photograph of the HMS Exeter on the water.
    World War II and the Battle of the Java Sea
  • German propaganda card designed to justify the expansion of Germany on the basis of Lebensraum.
    Lebensraum: Hitler's Search for More German Living Space
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    World War II: Operation Cobra and Breakout from Normandy
  • Black and white photo of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill during the Tehran Conference.
    What Happened During the WWII Tehran Conference?
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    World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein
  • Troops hitting the beach at Anzio, 1944
    World War II: Battle of Anzio
  • USS Tennessee (BB-43)
    World War II: USS Tennessee (BB-43)
  • US Marines
    World War II: Battle of Saipan
  • Allied troops on Corregidor
    World War II: Battle of Corregidor
  • Shoho at Coral Sea
    World War II: Battle of the Coral Sea
  • Barges intended for Operation Sea Lion
    World War II: Operation Sea Lion
  • Battle of Santa Cruz
    World War II: Battle of Santa Cruz
  • The convoy ship SS Pennsylvania Sun burns after being struck by a torpedo in the North Atlantic, July 15, 1942
    World War II: Battle of the Atlantic
  • USS West Virginia (BB-48)
    World War II: USS West Virginia (BB-48)
  • USS California, 1921
    World War II: USS California (BB-44)
  • Battle of Kwajalein
    World War II: Battle of Kwajalein
  • Hitler in Paris
    World War II in Europe: Blitzkrieg and the "Phony War"
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