The city of Paris started mobilizing for war in September 1939, when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union attacked Poland, but the war seemed far away until...

Almost every country in the world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relative few nations remained neutral to...

After World War II, both the Federal Republic and Democratic Republic of Germany were obliged to pay war reparations to the Allied governments, according...

World War II saw the largest scale of war crimes and crimes against humanity ever committed in an armed conflict, mostly against civilians and specific...

List of theatres and campaigns of World War II subdivides military operations of World War II and contemporary wars by war, then by theater and then by campaign...

of World War II. Timeline of events preceding World War II Timeline of World War II (1939) Timeline of World War II (1940) Timeline of World War II (1941)...

"home front" covers the activities of the civilians in a nation at war. World War II was a total war; homeland military production became vital to both...

territory. The Soviet attempt to conquer Finland in the Winter War was thwarted, and by the end of World War II, Finland remained an independent country. However...

military history of the United States during World War II covers the nation's role as one of the major Allies in their victory over the Axis Powers. The United...

The participation of Italy in the Second World War was characterized by a complex framework of ideology, politics, and diplomacy, while its military actions...