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New Yorkers shout their joy at hearing reports of Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945. (Fox Photos/Getty Images) Facts and summary, V-E Day, also written VE Day: V-E Day stands for ...

The Berlin Conference of the Three Heads of Government of the U. S. S. R., U. S. A., and U. K., which took place from July 17 to August 2, 1945, came to the following conclusions: I. ESTABLISHMENT OF ...

Yet The World Since 1945 is proof of what a well-trained (and, in many ways, old-fashioned) historian is capable of doing when his interest and perspective are directed to problems, periods, places ...

United States Marines (foreground) blow up a cave connected to a Japanese blockhouse on Iwo Jima, 1945. In April 1945, LIFE magazine published one of the most memorable cover images of its four-decade ...

For Jack Appel, 101, the Allies' victory in Europe − made official on May 8, 1945 − wasn't just vital because otherwise, as he said, "we'd all be speaking German now." "World War II was a major, major ...

On July 28, 1945, “a Mitchell bomber en route for Newark in fog crashed into the 78th and 79th storeys of the Empire State Building. Thirteen lives, including the crew, were lost and many others ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Miss America winner Bess Myerson Rothman is managing editor at TIME. TIME once wrote of Bess Myerson that “few people have paraded before the public in quite as ...

The unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht came into effect on May 8, 1945 at 11 p.m. Western European Time. 75 years later, Europe is again being put to the test, writes the author György ...

On Sunday, July 15, 1945, at around 11 pm Mountain War Time, New York Times reporter and in-house Manhattan Project historian (or propagandist, some would say) William L. Laurence joined the project’s ...