In 1941, the Axis gains further momentum with control of most of Continential Europe. Hitler decides to break pact and invade Stalin's Soviet Union. United States enters World War II after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. [12:11]

In 1943, the tide really turns in favor of the Allies in World War II. They are able to push the Axis out of N.Africa and force a surrender from Italy (along with Mussolini being deposed). The Soviets are able to start pushing the Axis...

From North Africa, back to Britain and through Europe, Letters of Love in WW2 tells a unique story of the Second World War from the perspective of two people that lived through it. This podcast includes 13 episodes.

America The Story of Us is an epic 12-hour television event that tells the extraordinary story of how America was invented. It is presented in a series of 12 documentaries from Rebels to Millennium.

In this video [4:03] excerpted from Poetry in America, ponder W.H. Auden's World War II era reflections on suffering in "Musee des Beaux Arts" with Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, with journalist and ethicist David...

Students will learn about World War II and its impact on Wyoming as part of the Pearl Harbor Day observance.

In observance of Pearl Harbor Day, students will learn about the attack on Pearl Harbor in this video. Also, explore the US response and the impact the attack on Pearl Harbor had on Wyoming. [6:44]

The incredible creations of some of the most iconic toys in history happened by chance. During World War II, a naval engineer accidentally creates an iconic spiral toy that walks down stairs, when he's trying to come up with a way to...

Biography of Gordon Hirabayashi, who defied the U.S. government's curfew and evacuation orders for Japanese and Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Collection of stories by the soldiers who were on the beach, made up the beach and experienced the days immediately after D-day.

This site from PBS provides a short account giving the major details of the war trials held for Japanese defendants from 1946 to 1948.

Ira Flato talks with Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper's Wife, a new book about the Holocaust, World War II, and the Warsaw Zoo.

Explore the history of Memorial Day with this collection of photographs and video.