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.
President Truman makes a decision to use America's atomic weapons to bomb Japan.
On December 8, 1941, following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt declares war.
Jewish people inside the ghetto resist the Nazis as the ghetto burns to the ground.
Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy amid heavy damages, hoping to free the capital of France.
MacArthur and Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippines, warn Roosevelt the end is near and ask for withdrawal of US troops.
Lieutenant Commander Anton Otto Fischer, U.S.C.G.R. (U.S. Coast Guard Reserve), created this painting in February of 1943. It depicts a burning ...
Doolittle and his Tokyo Raiders prove that Japan can be attacked; however, two US planes crash and Japanese soldiers capture the pilots.
African-American Dorie Miller works in the West Virgina's galley, but when the bombs fall, he assists the ship's captain, fires a machine gun and earn...
In 1939, Einstein writes a letter to FDR about his theory of creating power from splitting atoms and his concerns that Germany can develop nuclear bom...
General Eisenhower visits many Nazi death camps to document their existence and crimes.
When the Soviets liberated Budapest, Raoul Wallenberg thought they could also free 70,000 Jewish people who were still at risk. After discussing the i...
Here we see an example of an Enigma code book which Germany used during World War II. The title, Sondermaschinen Schlüssel, means "Special Machin...
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