Germany invades Poland, leading Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany. May 15, 1940 In the first large scale “bombing war,” Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs the Ruhr area of ...
Not published in LIFE. Hiroshima streetcar, September, 1945. One scene shared by all of the 20th century’s bloodiest conflicts might have been lifted straight from The Road Warrior, or a Beckett play: ...
United States Marines (foreground) blow up a cave connected to a Japanese blockhouse on Iwo Jima, 1945. In April 1945, LIFE magazine published one of the most memorable cover images of its four-decade ...
The year 1945 left its mark on the 20th century. The liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, the Pacific War, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan: these 12 months changed the world forever. After ...
Syracuse.com reader Glen Owens recently shared the above photo after a friend thought he would find interesting. It might be one of the most famous photographs ever taken of a Syracuse resident. The ...
The end of World War II was followed by an ideological battle over guilt and responsibility. West Germany was slower to face the challenge than communist East Germany with its state policy of ...
A brief account of a workers' and peasants' uprising in Vietnam following the end of World War II by Ngo Van Xuyet, one of the participants. Submitted by Ed on September 8, 2006 One of the main ...
1945 was unlike any other year on record. World War II was ongoing but the Soviets had marched into Poland. Germany’s Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had fled to his underground bunker, properly titled the ...
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