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The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews.
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the Red Army crosses the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft.
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German forces invaded Poland and Adolf Hitler takes over.
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German invaded France and the Low Countries during WW2
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Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter’s resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons.
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On July 10, 120 German bombers and fighters struck a British shipping convoy, and the Battle of Britain officially started.
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The principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II.
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The Battle of El Alamein marked the culmination of the World War II North African campaign between the British Empire and the German-Italian army.
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A meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and December 1, 1943.
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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Yalta Conference was a meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after 4 terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge the U.S. still fighting WW2
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It was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state.
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America dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima
