World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and secret protocols to it between the Soviet Union and the Third ...

COLOGNE, Germany — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city's biggest evacuation since the end of the war. More than 20,000 ...

World War II: A catastrophic failure of Western leadership enabled the Nazi menace to wreak havoc throughout Europe. What can we learn from the mistakes made by British and French decision-makers?

As the war neared its end, on 10 September 1945, President Harry Truman signed a request from the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, to officially name the war “World War II”.

"World War II was happening during a time when women were expected to be at home, they were expected to stay in the kitchen, help their kids, all very important things," Lori Petrelius, ...

Wreckage of sunken Japanese WWII ship found 00:30. A crew researching an iconic U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk in the Pacific Ocean during World War II made a remarkable discovery over ...