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

The simple desk of a great general reveals his democratic spirit.

News of the crushing Soviet victory at Stalingrad in February 1943 over the Third Reich and its satellite states struck the rest of Europe, indeed the globe, like a thunderbolt.

From Franklin D. Roosevelt’s perspective in the White House, democracy was under attack overseas and at home in mid-1941.

How Japan was imagined in Germany and in Hitler’s racial worldview needs to be defined precisely.