World War II / WWII

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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
A Soviet junior political officer urges Soviet troops forward against German positions, 1942
Operation Barbarossa
the cover of a Captain America comic book
Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation
Soldiers marching at the Champs Elysee
Recovering the History of the French Far-Right
U.S. Army Officers wearing their “Pinks-and-Greens,” 1943. (Library of Congress)
Throwback Army: World War II-Style Uniforms for Today’s Soldiers
A Soviet Soldier Waves the Red Banner
Stalingrad: The Turning Point of WWII in Europe
French people waving flags and holding "Liberation" sign
The Liberation of Paris
Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944
The Liberation of Paris
Still image from the Movie The Bridge (Criterion Collection).
Top Ten Origins: World War II Films
Tanks rolling off a German assembly line in 1943
The Nature of World War II
Soldiers marching in front of the memorial - The Motherland Calls in Volgograd.
Living in History: Stalingrad at 75