The two leaders secretly plan to divide Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between them ... Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II begins. May: As Germany marches into ...

By the late 1930s, the question was no longer whether a Second World War would break out, but when-and who would be drawn ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.

The National World War II Museum in New Orleans counts 1,370 of them in Massachusetts as of some point this year. But the living memories of the war were present in Europe for the veterans who ...