With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.
As Japanese troops continued their assault on the Philippines - in January of 1942 - Filipino and American troops did everything they could to deter t...
The federal government encouraged the creation of motivational posters during the Second World War.
For more than 700 years Russia, a nation rich in natural resources, has defended herself against invaders from other countries.
At first, Hitler believed that he could easily conquer the Soviet Union. Then he realized that was not possible.
In August of 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the "Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact." Hitler never meant for that agreement to last.
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In the summer of 1944, Allied forces fought a vicious battle with the Japanese on the island of Saipan.
General Saito, commanding Japanese forces on the island of Saipan, believed his troops could not hold the island if they did not have air power over i...
As U.S. infantry troops took their positions on the 6th of July, 1944, they were unaware that opposing forces were about to engage in a mass attack, u...
Bill Genaust, the camera man who recorded the live footage of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, died in the fighting nine days later.
As Germany invades, then occupies, the country of Norway its people rise-up to resist Hitler and his soldiers. Teenagers, as well as adults, join the ...
Sid Phillips describes what it was like to be a young Marine fighting in "The Pacific" during WWII.
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