- Acqui Division: Hitler orders Italians to be treated as traitors, not POWs
- Airplanes, American: Examples of U.S. planes used during the war
- Air Raids, London: Audio clips of actual air-raid sirens - (see second-to-last paragraph)
- Animated Map: Summarizing WWII in Europe (click on "were doing," fourth paragraph)
- "Anschluss" of Austria: Hitler annexes Austria, 1938
- Armia Krajowa (Polish Home Army): Poles resist the Nazis
- Armistice with Italy: September 3, 1943 - the Rome-Berlin Pact is set aside - (see first two paragraphs)
- Auschwitz: A virtual trip to the place of horrors
- Babi Yar: Murder at the ravine - (see first paragraph, links for "power to do more") first paragraph
- Berlin: Falls to the Soviet Army - (see photographs from the Russian Archives)
- Berlin: Land and air war ravages the city
- Berlin: Pictures of the post-war capital
- Berlin: Post-war, a divided city
- Berlin Wall: "I am a Berliner" speech by President Kennedy - (includes video clip and original notes for speech)
- Berlin Wall: "Tear Down This Wall" speech by President Reagan - (includes audio clip and original notes for speech)
- "Big Three" Conferences: Leaders from the UK, the Soviet Union and America met periodically to discuss the war
- Bletchley Park: Home to code breakers employed by British Intelligence
- Book Burning, Nazi-ordered: "Un-German" books burned, May of 1933
- Braun, Eva: Married Hitler just before death, April 1945
- British School Children: More than 7,500 children were killed by enemy action, with countless more traumatized - (see second-to-last paragraph)
- Cartoon Characters, Government Posters: "Jenny on the Job"
- Cartoon Characters, Government Posters: "Joe Dope"
- Cephalonia Massacre: Italian soldiers killed by Nazis on the Greek island of Cephalonia, 22 September 1943
- Children in War: From collecting scrap to growing "victory gardens", children helped in the war effort
- Churchill, D-Day Concerns: Worried about the deaths of too many soldiers
- Churchill, Description of Damage: Europe became "a rubble-heap, a charnel house, a breeding ground of pestilence and hate"
- Churchill, "Iron-Curtain" Speech: 5 March 1946 speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri - (includes link to video clip)
- Churchill: Voted out of office at war's end
- Conditions, Britain: Desperate conditions prevailed
- D-Day Facts: An overview of surprising details
- Deadliest Sinking: Maritime Disaster
- Dividing Berlin: Pictures of building the Berlin Wall - (see paragraphs seven and eight)
- Enigma: Hitler's Secret Code
- Europe, at War: Animated, narrated map summarizing the war in Europe - (click on "battles were finished," last paragraph)
- Europe, Post-war Divisions: Dividing Europe at war's end
- Evacuation, Britain: Mass evacuation of school children - (see paragraphs three and four for audio/video clips)
- "Final Solution" - The Nazi plan to murder Jewish people
- Flossenburg Death March: SS troops forced prisoners (including children and elderly people) to march south to Dachau
- German Wehrmacht officer: "Ideals can't be betrayed with impunity"
- German Resistance: Plotting against Hitler/Nazi regime - (see last paragraph)
- German Women and Children: Fleeing Eastern Front and the advancing Red Army
- Germany Reunited: Fall of the wall
- Ghetto, Warsaw: Pictures of destruction
- Gold and Sword Beaches: British forces land at Normandy on D-Day
- Himmler's Order: Destroy Jewish Quarter/Warsaw Ghetto
- Hitler, Adolf: Death in Berlin
- Hitler, Adolf: Rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party
- Hitler, Adolf: Takes power in Berlin, claiming to protect Germany's security
- Holocaust: Documentary evidence of the Nazi's intent to exterminate
- Home Front, America: War production efforts in the U.S.
- Imperial War Museum, Britain: Source of outstanding primary-source materials - (see last paragraph)
- Italo-German Alliance: The "Pact of Steel" agreement - 22 May 1939
- Juno Beach: Canadians land at Normandy on D-Day - (view audio clips from the Canadian National Archives)
- Kristallnacht: "Night of Broken Glass," when Nazis burned 200 Jewish synagogues throughout Germany
- Last Battle of War in Europe: Berlin
- Liberation of France: Commenced with Allied landings on D-Day
- Mussolini: Executed while trying to flee Italy
- National Boycott, Jewish Businesses: Early Nazi policies targeted Jewish shops
- Nazi-Soviet Agreement: March 23, 1939 Non-Aggression Pact - (see third paragraph)
- Normandy Invasion: The story of D-Day
- Nuremberg Laws: German Jews stripped of citizenship
- Oswiecim: The Polish town near the Auschwitz death camp
- Poland Invaded: Historical footage - (click on "surrendered" in the third paragraph, scroll down 80%, click on the film, see "Germany Invades Poland" at top left of page
- Poles: Feared gas attacks
- Polish Holocaust: Millions of non-Jewish Poles were killed by the Nazis
- Potsdam Conference: End-of-war negotiations by "Big Three"
- Propaganda Posters: The U.S. government hired some of the best artists of the day to create largely-forgotten propaganda posters
- Rationing: A way of life during WWII
- Rations, Food: Restrictions in the UK and the US
- Rations, Gas/Petrol: Restrictions in the UK and the US
- Rations, Teaching Children: American school children learn about rationing
- Rations, Tires: Rubber shortages mandated tire rationing - (see third paragraph from bottom)
- Rations, World-wide Examples: WWII ration books issued in many countries
- Red Army, Liberation: Soviet troops liberate German-held territory
- Roosevelt, Franklin D., death of: FDR died, unexpectedly, 12 April 1945
- Roosevelt, President Franklin: Unfinished portrait - (click on "president would die," fourth paragraph)
- Salvage Drives: Children helped to minimize shortages with salvage drives
- Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff:
- Soviet Union Losses: More than 20 million people died
- Stalingrad, Attack/Siege: Deadliest battle of Word War II
- Stroop Report: Total Destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto
- Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia): Nazis take over Sudetenland (through the Munich Agreement) on 1 October 1938
- Tommy Guns: Modified for WWII use - (see last paragraph)
- Truman, Harry S. - On learning he had just become president of the U.S.A.
- Truman, President Harry: Potsdam Conference, preparation and travel
- Truman, President Harry: Stalin meeting, July 1945
- U-Boats: Germany's weapon at sea
- U.S. Government Posters: "Keep Quiet!"
- Utah and Omaha Beaches: American soldiers land at Normandy on D-Day
- von Hindenburg, Paul: Germany's president names Hitler Chancellor
- Warsaw Bombed: Warsaw Radio aired Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto in C Minor
- Warsaw Destroyed: Hitler ordered the destruction of Warsaw
- Warsaw Ghetto: Effective 12 October 1940, new "living arrangements" for Jews
- Warsaw-Ghetto Residents: "Evacuated" to Treblinka concentration camp
- Warsaw-Ghetto Revolt: Jewish resistance against Nazis
- "Waste nothing!" - Efforts to curb shortages and ease the burdens of WWII
- Wolf's Lair: Scene of attempted assassination of Hitler (July 20, 1944) - referred to as "Operation Valkyrie"
- Women at War: American women part of war effort
- Yalta Conference: Marks start of "Cold War"