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Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, United States President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and officials stand in a large room at the Potsdam Conference in Germany.
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, United States President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and officials stand in a large room at the Potsdam Conference in Germany.
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War brides and their babies arrive in New York and reunite with their husbands and daddies.
War brides and their babies arrive in New York and reunite with their husbands and daddies.
Getty Images
Montage: scenes from a 1940s used car lot
Various shots of business at a post-World War 2 used car lot. You'll see a wide shot of the lot. Then Mike of Mad Mike's Motor Mart stepping outside of his office and consulting with one of his salesman. Then MIke escorts a lady into...
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, United States President Harry S. Truman and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin sit outside during the Potsdam Conference.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, United States President Harry S. Truman and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin sit outside during the Potsdam Conference.
Hearst Metrotone News
War brides arrive in New York and reunite with their husbands.
War brides arrive in New York and reunite with their husbands.
TED-Ed
The Meaning of Life According to Simone de Beauvoir
Meet Simone de Beauvoir, teacher, writer, feminist. Perhaps best known as an existential philosopher, her views on what it means to be a woman upended the post World War II intellectual theatre.
PBS
Invisible Man: Crash Course Literature
John Green, the narrator of a Crash Course Literature episode focusing on Invisible Man, offers his analysis of Ralph Ellison's novel. Using evidence from the text, Green details why Ellison's novel should be considered as a seminal work...
C-SPAN
On This Day: The United Nations Charter
Established after the devastation of World War II, the United Nations was meant to uphold peace among nations—though the idea isn't without its critics. Using newsreel footage from its establishment and videos of politicians from Eleanor...
C-SPAN
On This Day: The Nuremberg Trials
Were the Nuremberg Trials vengeance or justice? After World War II, the trials of Nazi officials were supposed to bring justice for genocidal atrocities. However, scholars debate whether it was just an act of retribution by the victors....
National WWII Museum
The End of the War
V-E day is almost here, the Allies are victorious! Using a video that features archival footage and photos, scholars watch as the Allies are successful, and the war in Europe is brought to a close. Learners also witness the Allies'...
National WWII Museum
What Would You Do? Scenario: Dachau
When American troops liberated the Dachau concentration camp, they were so enraged by the death they saw that a group of soldiers summarily executed Nazi soldiers. One man filmed the actions, and then struggled with a moral dilemma:...
Bill of Rights Institute
Post-WWII Boom: Transition to a Consumer Economy
The war is over! Scholars investigate an AP review video to uncover the post-WWII era in the United States. Viewers examine and analyze the consumerism that arose in post-war America. This is the eighth installment of a nine-part...
TED-Ed
The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall
Do fences make good neighbors? Do walls offer a solution to political and social problems? A video that traces the building of and destruction of the wall that divided the West and East German sections of Berlin offers viewers a...
Crash Course
Crash Course World History: #40: Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant
In this video John Green teaches you about the post-World War II breakup of most of the European empires. [12:49]