The war between the US and Japan had started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The Japanese surrender in 1945 occurred after the US dropped ...

V-E Day, on May 8, 1945, marked the end of World War II in Europe. But we're still learning that conflict's deepest lessons.

It might not be the only one, but 'Axis & Allies' stands above the rest of the World War II strategy board games.

Seventy-five years ago, the world blew up in just six months. World War II ostensibly started ... Collectively, the Allies enjoyed vastly greater assets than the Axis powers.

Thousands celebrate the announcement of Germany’s unconditional surrender to the Allies in World War II on May 7, 1945, at ...

A truly global conflict, over 70 nations took part in the fighting of World War II. Looking back ... of the under-the-radar Allies that supported the war effort against Axis forces.

British historian J. Lee Ready’s t Forgotten Allies: The Military Contribution of the Colonies, Exiled Governments, and Lesser Powers to the Allied Victory in World War II first appeared in 1985, and ...

Can "anything new be said about the Second World War ... history", "Allies at War" focuses on the fraught and often shifting alliances between the countries that opposed the Axis powers: chiefly ...

After much of Europe had been occupied by the Axis powers for four years, the Allies finally launched their campaign to liberate Western Europe, codenamed Operation Overlord, on 6 June 1944.

This week marks 80 years since Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allies ... west eventually wore the Axis powers down. In the rest of the world, World War II ended when U.S. General ...