World War II / WWII

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two German soldiers crouching down, one has his hand in the air holding an explosive device and the other is aiming a gun
Operation Barbarossa
resident Harry Truman, left, congratulates Gen. George Marshall (architect of the Marshall Plan) , Fair Use via AP
The Marshall Plan
Defendants hearing verdict, Nuremberg Trial Photographs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Elizabeth Duddy
The Nuremberg Judgment
U.S.S. Arizona on fire after the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?
a couple on their wedding day
Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust
Three 10th Mountain Division Ski troopers above Camp Hale in the Pando Valley, Colorado in February, 1944.
Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei (1945).
The Living Ghosts of the Second World War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The U.S.-Economic Cooperation Administration created numerous posters to promote the Marshall Plan in Europe. This one, depicting the flags of various Western European countries receiving Marshall Plan aid, was produced in 1950.
The Marshall Plan
Captain America punching Hitler
Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation
The ruins of Cassino, May 1944 - a wrecked Sherman tank and Bailey bridge in the foreground, with Monastery Ridge and Castle Hill
The Nature of World War II
UPA soldiers charge
West Ukraine's War Stories: A New Chapter?
The Sofia Monument to the Soviet Army painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag din support of the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.
World War II in Eastern Europe: Many Lands, Many Memories
Vladimir Putin seated and surrounded by military officers
World War II Memory in Putin's Russia
U.S. General James Van Fleet and Greek War Minister Kanellopoulos walking between lines of soldiers on the island of Makronissos during the Greek Civil War
The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949
Ukrainian refugees board a train in Lviv, February 2022.
West Ukraine’s War Stories: A New Chapter?
Burial detail at Camp O'Donnell after the Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March
American soldiers land near Algiers
Torch: The Allied Invasion of French North Africa, 1942
a ceremony in Ukraine
Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell
Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell
Downstream view of Marco Polo Bridge by Thomas Child, 1877. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937)
Japanese people in line at induction station during WWII
Japanese Internment, Nativism, and Today
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
Bombing Hiroshima
The defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal. They were organized in the dock according to the importance of their positions in the Nazi leadership.
The Nuremberg Judgment
Cover of Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson.
The Soviet-German Exchange: Beyond Ideology and Opportunism