Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...

Isoroku Yamamoto was the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Imperial Navy during the Second World War. He was a veteran of ...

Thirteen Jewish leaders and artists were killed on the ‘Night of the Murdered Poets,’ one of the campaign’s most infamous ...

The idea of the Motherland runs deep not only in India but in Russia as well. The sculpture of Mother Russia visible behind ...

At first, disarmament was imposed on Germany. American and Russian forces seized weapons depots, sealed off factories, and ...

On Dec. 1, 1943, ending a "Big Three" meeting in Tehran, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston ...

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against ...

Lt. Morton Sher, 22, died on August 20, 1943, during a mission in central China. For decades, his remains were considered ...

An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing ...

On Nov. 28, 2018, former President George H.W. Bush died at his home in Houston, six months after the passing of his wife, ...

Built in 1941, Diamond Lil was one of the first Liberators to enter combat. B-24s were used in every theater of the war.

It was an imperialist act because it divided part of European territory between two countries. From 1939 to 1941, the Soviet Union was an ally of Germany on the Eastern Front, supplying it with the ...