World War II - Europe
SS Major General Stroop destroys the second-largest Jewish community in the world.
Churchill, Truman, and Stalin plan to meet in the Potsdam suburb of Berlin in July 1945 to determine the political fate of Europe.
Americans land on Utah Beach, one of five Normandy beaches attacked on D-day.
On March 28, 1941, after years of suffering from mental illness, Virginia puts a heavy stone in her coat pocket and lets the river's current take her.
The Warsaw Ghetto is the first step in the Nazi plan for extermination of the Jews.
Despite the Jewish resistance to the German assault, Jewish men and women are captured and killed.
U.S. war posters highlight worries about food shortages and prompt people to avoid wasting anything.
The Tommy Gun (for General Thompson who invents it) becomes famous during the Prohibition-era for its use by gangsters in Chicago.
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