During World War II, this anthem was sung by African Americans fighting fascism abroad and continuing the struggle for social justice in the United States.

Be careful about superlatives when you’re discussing military history, until you’re talking about Operation Barbarossa.

During World War II, Juneteenth celebrations were still mostly concentrated in Texas and surrounding states. El Paso and Beaumont, Texas provide striking insights into Juneteenth and the struggle for equality that Black Americans faced during the war.

In 1933-34 the gains made by gay men in Germany and the Soviet Union were abruptly reversed.

The history of drag performances can be traced back to the late 1800s. These performances can even be traced to World War I and World War II. 

During the German invasion of the USSR, the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) brutally murdered between 10,000 and 40,000 political prisoners in Western Ukraine over the course of eight days, which sparked waves of ethnic violence following the German occupation of the region.

The first to cross the English Channel on D-Day, minesweepers cleared the way for the invasion of France.

At the Tokyo Tribunal, Justice Radhabinod Pal voted for the acquittal of all the defendants on all counts.

With the end of the wartime no-strike pledge, workers across America expressed their frustration with wages and working conditions through a series of strikes that involved over 5 million people from the end of 1945 and into 1946.

An estimated 9,000 American Jews were held as POWs by the Germans. Their Jewish identity was a source of both pride and peril.