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.
"Red Tails" is a LucasFilm movie inspired by the Tuskegee Airmen and their days of combat action: Terrence Howard portrays a character based on Lt.
Allied planes, and the British 8th Army, attack German positions in Africa across a forty-mile front.
Not long after J. Howard Miller - the artist at Westinghouse who created the "We Can Do It!
For more than 700 years Russia, a nation rich in natural resources, has defended herself against invaders from other countries.
THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS AN INTERPRETATION OF THE "SELECTION PROCESS" WHICH TOOK PLACE AT NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS DURING WORLD WAR TWO.
Sid Phillips - who served with H Company, 2nd battalion of the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division - turned 18 during the Battle for Guadalcanal.
After the Allies launched their surprise assault at Guadalcanal, Japan attacked ships which were supplying ground forces.
It's May 27, 1941, and the Bismarck is disabled, due to attacks by British planes (known as Swordfish). Several Royal Navy ships arrive on the scene -...
THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS RECOLLECTIONS OF JEWISH PRISONERS, CALLED SONDERKOMMANDO, WHO WORKED AT AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU.
Britons were stunned at the loss of the Hood, and Churchill was furious.
In 1943, an Allied invasion fleet moves toward Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll.
On September 1, 1941, German Jews received the police directive that all Jews above the age of six to wear a yellow star.
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