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Hundreds of thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish refugees fled the advancing German army into eastern Poland, hoping that the Polish army would halt the German advance in the west.
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A German battlecruiser who was on a mission to attack British merchant vessels.
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Hitler threatens the Jews of the world with annihilation; he also blames the failure of the offensive in Soviet Union on the weather.
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7:55 a.m on a Sunday morning, war came to America.
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On D-Day, June 6, 1944 , General Dwight Eisenhower led U.S. and Allied troops in an invasion of Normandy, France. The armies fought their way through France and Belgium and into Germany while Russian troops fought from the east.
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He was leading the U.S through an economic crisis and the world war.
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Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union at 2:41 A. M.
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Atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945 and the second on August 9, 1945.
