In September 1939, Germany stunned the world with Blitzkrieg — a lightning war of tanks, air strikes, and rapid encirclements ...

World War II was the deadliest conflict ever fought, reshaping the globe forever. Beginning with Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939, it spread across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. The ...

Story Highlights About 20 world leaders gathered in Poland to mark the start of World War II Attack set off chain of events that embroiled all of the world's major powers Germany's pre-dawn invasion ...

Zbigniew Brzezinski was a lifelong Cold War hawk who was deeply suspicious of the Soviet Union. The invasion of Poland by ...

In “Gotham at War,” Mike Wallace shows how the American fight against the Nazis started years before World War II, in the Big ...

The story of Franceska Mann, the 26-year-old ballerina who started a riot when fighting for her life at the hands of Nazi ...

Sympathy with the Jews in Nazi-held Poland was demonstrated this Rosh Hashanah by Poles in Warsaw gathering in groups near ...

When Anita Friedman set out to make a documentary about her father’s village in Poland, she didn’t realize she was stumbling upon a mystery.

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.

A Ukrainian expedition composed of researchers from the Memorial and Search Center “Dolya” in Lviv began search and ...

From canvas-covered Gothas dropping the first strategic raids on London to B-2 Spirits obliterating hardened bunkers undetected, bombers have rewritten the playbook of conflict. Their mere presence ...

Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on September 29. Check what happened today in history here ...