The Big three met at Potsdam, Germany, in the summer of 1945 to discuss the fate of the world after World War II.

In April 1945, fifty nations gathered in San Francisco, California and created The United Nations.

After World War II 1.2 million Eastern European displaced persons refused to return home, creating a large-scale refugee crisis.

During World War II, Nazi authorities condemned millions of Eastern Europeans to forced labor as part of an aggressive campaign to conquer and establish a colony in Eastern Europe.

During World War II, millions of Eastern Europeans were involuntarily deported to serve as forced laborers in Germany.

The Holocaust in Ukraine represents the first phase of the Holocaust in which an estimated 1.5 million Jews were shot to death at close range in ravines, open fields, and forests.
 

The Warsaw Uprising created a rift between Stalin and his Western Allies, which some historians argue anticipated  the Cold War. 

The German response to the Warsaw Uprising was characterized by ruthless terror and unrelenting bloodshed, which caused civilian support to drastically diminish.

Polish civilians played a critical role in the two-month long conflict in Warsaw.

Yoshikuni Igarashi examines the impact of World War II and Japan’s defeat on postwar Japanese memory.