June 23 has been a date marked by numerous significant events throughout history, spanning the realms of science, politics, ...

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. World leaders ...

A military encounter between Japan and the Soviet Union was triggered by allegations of territorial intrusion, which came to be known as the Nomonhan Incident. Chapter 1 describes the incident as ...

Norway surrendered to Germany during World War II, with King Haakon and members of the government fleeing to Britain.

(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed ... Belgium, ...

Ahead of a commemorative concert marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Czech President Petr Pavel warned that modern-day Russia is displaying behavior reminiscent of Nazi ...

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 ...

One of the worst conflicts in recorded human history, World War II will be forever remembered for the millions of These Axis Mistakes May Have Cost Them the War Skip to main content ...

In May 1938, Hitler planned to invade Czechoslovakia in October and bring the ethnic Germans there back into Germany. This invasion would be without provocation, but Germany put significant ...

Critics of the 1938 Munich agreement have charged that the forced dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and the great powers’ agreement that it is OK to redraw the international borders of a small country ...