This attack was Adolf Hitler’s last attempt to turn World War II in his favor following the Allied D-Day invasion in June ...

(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. (CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D ...

Tuesday marks the 79th anniversary of D-Day, when 160,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, to fight Nazi Germany during World War II. According to the Pentagon, 9,000 Allied ...

Berliners line up to pay their respects at one of the city's Soviet World War II memorials. May 8, 2025. (Dave Braneck/Courthouse News) BERLIN (CN) — The horrifying history of World War II doesn’t ...

LONDON — Eighty years ago, the Allies announced they had accepted Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender. What became known as Victory in Europe Day marked the end of World War II in Europe, prior to ...

Eighty years ago Thursday, the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks during the Bundestag ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. On May 8, 1945, the war in Europe ended following Germany ...

Russia's ambassador to Germany pressed ahead on Friday with his controversial attendance at celebrations in the eastern town of Torgau to mark 80 years since US and Soviet soldiers famously shook ...

LONDON — Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter of current-day ...

In 1931, Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria and set up a puppet state. Then in November 1936 Japan signed an anti-Communist pact with Nazi Germany, and Japan invaded China in July 1937 ...