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German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland
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The Nazi occupation was a terrible time for Paris, not just because the Nazis were there but because Paris itself was complicit in its own humiliation.
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German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, and locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date.
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Some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
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Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war.
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The Germans launched the last major offensive of the war, attempting to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.
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The public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations.
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The Battle of Dresden was a major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle took place around the city of Dresden in modern-day Germany.
