World War II took place from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy and Japan — and the Allies — mainly France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States.

World War I wasn’t an inadvertent war but the result of deliberate German state policy. The Great Myth: World War I Was No Accident – The Diplomat All Sections Search ...

When the clock strikes 11 on Sunday it will mark 100 years since World War I ended. For Germany, the landmark date has raised difficult questions about how the country remembers its wartime past.

During WWII, 400,000 German soldiers made the U. S. their home. They were prisoners of war, and they were here because there ...

When the clock strikes 11 on Sunday it will mark 100 years since World War I ended. For Germany, the landmark date has raised difficult questions about how the country remembers its wartime past.

When the US declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, the Allies had already endured over three years of carnage. The famed Harlem Hellfighters were the first to join the fight on the frontlines ...

And on April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on the German Empire, joining France, Great Britain, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Italy.

When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, not a single American division existed, just a regular army of 127,000 men organized as regiments.

The Heritage of the Great War, accessed December 19, 2011; Stanley Weintraub. Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914 . London: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

An American soldier carries a wreath during a march through Grafenwoehr, Germany, April 8, 2025, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Grafenwoehr and the end of World War II.