World War II: Summary, Combatants & Facts - HISTORY
Oct 29, 2009 · World War II, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history, involved more than 50 nations and was fought on land, sea and air in nearly every part of the world.
World War II: Causes and Timeline - HISTORY
World War II was fought from 1939 to 1945. Learn more about World War II combatants, battles and generals, and what caused World War II.
World War II Battles: Timeline - HISTORY
May 5, 2021 · With Adolf Hitler leading a German invasion of Poland in 1939, World War II was launched, a deadly global conflict waged across Europe and the Pacific until 1945. Bloody battles raged between the ...
How Did World War II End? - HISTORY
Aug 11, 2020 · On September 2, World War II ended when U.S. General Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan’s formal surrender aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay along with a flotilla of more ...
Holocaust: Definition, Remembrance & Meaning | HISTORY
Oct 14, 2009 · After years of Nazi rule in Germany, dictator Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution”—now known as the Holocaust—came to fruition during World War II, with mass killing centers in concentration ...
Battle of Stalingrad ‑ Definition, Dates & Significance - HISTORY
Nov 9, 2009 · The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II.
Watch WWII in HD Full Episodes, Video & More - HISTORY
WWII in HD is the first-ever World War II documentary presented in full, immersive HD color.
Italian Campaign ‑ WWII, Timeline & Outcome - HISTORY
Nov 18, 2009 · The Italian Campaign, from July 10, 1943, to May 2, 1945, was a series of Allied beach landings and land battles from Sicily and southern Italy up the Italian mainland toward Nazi Germany during ...
D‑Day ‑ Normandy Invasion, Facts & Significance | HISTORY
Oct 27, 2009 · D-Day was the name given to the June 6, 1944, invasion of the beaches at Normandy in northern France by troops from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries during World ...
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - HISTORY
Nov 18, 2009 · On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939‑45), an American B‑29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, immediately killing 80,000 people.