WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s leaders stressed the need for a strong defense in the face of war in neighboring Ukraine and redress as they led solemn ceremonies early Sunday to mark the 85th anniversary ...

September 1 marks Nazi Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland igniting WWII, King Louis XIV's death, Japan's Great Kanto ...

Some selected audio from the BBC archive that can be used as part of a lesson around why Britain went to war in September ...

(NEXSTAR) — On June 6, 1944, a day etched in the annals of World War II, the D-Day invasion marked a critical turning point in the Allied efforts to liberate Europe from Germany. The magnitude of the ...

In September 1939, following Germany’s invasion of Poland, France launched a limited offensive across the border into the ...

It's been a lifetime, literally, since the invasion of the beaches at Normandy in France in 1944. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the event historians often refer to as the beginning of the ...

The Army trained 18-year-old Virginia man David Poole as an airplane mechanic in 1943. He soon found himself on the cusp of ...