Nazi Germany's Tiger and Tiger II tanks have been lauded as legendary and among World War II's most fearsome weapons. Why ...

While World War II began ... the Allied Powers (United Kingdom, France, and USSR) against the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy and Japan). Recovering from World War I and the Great Depression, most ...

In the 1930s, Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas pushed to expand and industrialize his country’s economy—until the outbreak of World War II upended ... three major Axis powers: Germany ...

After much of Europe had been occupied by the Axis powers for four years, the Allies finally launched their campaign to liberate Western Europe, codenamed Operation Overlord, on 6 June 1944.