The concept of genocide has fundamentally altered international law, history, and global geopolitics forever, transforming the way we understand mass violence in the modern world. 

Well before the war ended, President Franklin D. Roosevelt envisioned a plan for veterans to return home and better their lives through the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. But administering the massive welfare program required navigating social and political challenges.

On May 22, 1943, Moscow announced the dissolution of the Communist International.

The Allies created the International Tracing Service (ITS), now referred to as the Arolsen Archives, to centralize postwar efforts to locate missing persons and help survivors discover the fate of family members in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust.

Robert Brown was an educator, civil rights activist, community leader, elected official, and a WWII combat veteran.

In an address to the Harvard graduating class on June 5, 1947, General George C. Marshall called for a European Recovery Plan for war torn Europe. Marshall’s call, and the Marshall Plan that bears his name, continues to resonate today with respect to the war in Ukraine and the need to rebuild in its aftermath.

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

The Marshall Plan was a massive commitment to European recovery after World War II that was largely supported by Americans.

Yoshikuni Igarashi, PhD answers more of the audience’s questions from the February 2022 webinar on post-1945 Japan

The modern usage of the word “cool” surfaced during World War II. Cool was a new concept, a new set of encoded ideas, and a new musical aesthetic. This article explores the idea in a post-WWII context.

This essay offers some ways of thinking about how to make sense of the complicated post-war moment through the case of Yugoslavia.

This article examines how World War II marked an important moment in the political history of modern zoos.