Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...

1945. That day, the guns of battle fell silent after seven weeks of destruction that would become known as the Siege of Budapest. In late 1944, the Soviet Red Army was advancing west on its march ...

After Stalin died in March 1953, a power struggle broke out in Moscow. Several Soviet leaders were worried ... at the Potsdam Conference on July 24, 1945. President Truman told him that we have ...

Auschwitz was liberated six months later, in January 1945. When the Nazis realised that Soviet troops were close ... man who was forced onto a death march, remembered it as ‘something ...

In September 1945, a young Russian man symbolically ushered in the Cold War when he walked into Ottawa newsroom and announced he had proof of a widespread Soviet spy ring operating in Canada.

Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 9, 1945: A crowd cheering the arrival of Soviet troops in a tank ... Winston Churchill, 5 March 1946 I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support ...