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.
Churchill, Truman, and Stalin plan to meet in the Potsdam suburb of Berlin in July 1945 to determine the political fate of Europe.
Tule Lake internment camp allow students to take class and families to grow crops.
One way convoys crossing the North Atlantic could protect themselves, and the supply-carrying ships they were escorting, was to drop depth charges aga...
Because Churchill ordered all the code-breaking hardware to be destroyed at Bletchley Park, after Germany surrendered, original devices did not surviv...
A British ship and David Balme, a sailor, capture U-110 and its Enigma machine and code.
The HMS Aubretia and David Balme, a young sailor, capture U-110's Enigma Machine and a sealed code book for the upcoming month of June, 1941.
The British ship, HMS Aubretia, spots the U-110's periscope and drops depth charges to disable the submarine.
The British ship, HMS Aubretia, spots U-110's periscope and drops depth charges to disable the German submarine.
The British do not want the Germans to know they have the Enigma machine so they tow the U-110 to Iceland where it eventually sinks.
The British do not want the Germans to know they have the Enigma Machine, and its code books, so they tow the U-110 to Iceland where it eventually sin...
The U-505 has a permanent home at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, where visitors can tour it.
Depth charges from American ships damage the U-505 so badly that the U-boat must rise to the surface.
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