The Big Three - Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin In February 1945, three men met in a holiday resort to decide the fate of the world. Nazi Germany was on its knees.

解放战争亦称第三次国内革命战争，是1945年8月至1949年9月中国人民解放军在中国共产党的领导和广大人民群众的支援下，为推翻国民党统治、解放全中国而进行的战争。 1945 ...

An election was called for 5 July 1945. Voting closed on 19 July to allow enough time for soldiers stationed abroad to vote. The two leading parties were Clement Attlee’s Labour Party and ...

He last appeared above ground on his 56th birthday - 20 April 1945 - to award medals to those defending the city. That same day, Soviet forces began to shell the city centre. Berlin was completely ...

In 1944 alone, the United States built more planes than the Japanese did from 1939 to 1945. By the end of the war, more than half of all industrial production in the world would take place in the ...

United Nations Day, on 24 October, marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. With the ratification of this founding document by the majority of its signatories ...

The UN Charter is the constitutive instrument of the United Nations, signed on 26 June 1945. It sets out the rights and obligations of Member States and establishes the principal organs and ...

In 1991 the Soviet Union split up and the Cold War ended. In February 1945, the leaders of the UK, America and the Soviet Union met in Yalta in the Crimean region of the Soviet Union. After ...