WHAT'S INSIDE: WORLD WAR II

World War II was a dark period in the history of the world. This section covers topics about some of the many people and events that took place during the course of World War II.
  • Overview
  • Biographies
  • Conferences & Agreements
  • Glossary

FEATURED: WORLD WAR II

Tuskegee Airmen, the informal name for black Americans who were trained to become pilots during World War II.

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Goebbels, Joseph Paul (1897-1945), a German Nazi propagandist. As minister of propaganda in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, 1933-45, he not only used the press, radio, and other forms of communication to serve the Nazi regime, but also molded German cultural life to that end.

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World War II ended in 1945, but some soldiers in the dense jungles of Pacific islands didn't get the memo. What did it take to get them to stop fighting?