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.
The Soviet Army inflicts horrific damage on the German people as its troops advance to, then pass over, the Oder River.
On the 16th of April, 1945, the Soviet Army begins its final assault of World War II.
Three impregnable anti-aircraft towers direct their heavy guns at the approaching Soviet men.
Soviet forces approach the Berlin suburb of Potsdam and come closer to Berlin itself.
As German defenders continue their now-hopeless efforts, Soviet troops are nearly at Hitler's bunker.
President Roosevelt attended his last "Big Three Conference" in February of 1945.
In 1949, Dr. Billy Graham traveled by train from Minneapolis to Los Angeles.
HMS Hood was 860 feet long and weighed 48,000 tons.
Bismarck- Germany's fantastic new battleship - was heading for the Atlantic, via the Baltic, since her officers thought that would be a safer route.
In May of 1941, Germany dispatches its formidable new battleship, called the Bismarck, to interfere with - and sink - convoys en route to Britain.
Top-secret work took place in top-secret places at this British code-breaking haven during World War II. Some of the smartest people in the wo...
WARNING: THIS CLIP, AND ITS DESCRIPTION, CONTAINS HISTORICAL FOOTAGE OF WAR AND THE DROPPING OF FIRE BOMBS OVER JAPAN.
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