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Nazis coordinated an attack on Jewish people and their property in Germany and German-controlled lands.
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The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee.
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War II one of the most major battle in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad.
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was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then a French protectorate, to plan the European strategy of the Allies
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King Victor Emmanuel, leader of post-Fascist Italy, declared war on Germany
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By winter 1943 the Allied Italian campaign was making progress. Both Clark and the Fifth US Army on the west coast, and Montgomery and the Eighth British Army on the east, had been fought to a standstill on the Gustav Line
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The greatest amphibious attack in history. Nearly 175, 000 American, Canadian, and British troops landed in Normandy
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A World War II Allied victory, on August 25, 1944. After Operation Overlord gained a foothold in Normandy, Allied forces made slow progress east. The German counterattack at Avranches,
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the last German offensive on the Western Front, an unsuccessful attempt to divide the Allied forces and prevent an invasion of Germany
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Conference of Allied leaders at Yalta to plan Germany's defeat in World War II. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin
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the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of German forces in Europe.
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A series of trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, from November 1945 to October 1946. They were held by the International Military Tribunal to indict and try twenty-four former Nazi leaders for committing and conspiring to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II.
