https://europe.unc.edu/the-end-of-wwii-and-the-division-of-europe/
In February 1945, when they were confident of an Allied victory, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Stalin met near Yalta, Crimea, to discuss the reorganization of post-WWII Europe. Each country's leader had his own set of ideas for rebuilding and re-establishing order in the war-torn continent.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19448953.2021.1935082
Accordingly, the Soviet-Turkish relations changed significantly from being considered friendly until March 1945, when Molotov initiated his note denouncing the 1925 Treaty of Friendship with Turkey and demanded a base in the Straits area and the return of Kars and Ardahan to the Soviet Union. Only after such demands, Turkish government

https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II
World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939-45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China). It was the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in human history.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19448953.2021.1987764
The background conditions, December 1935 to April 1939. During the second half of the 1930s, Turkey faced two serious security threats. The first was caused by the rise of Italian imperial ambitions in the Mediterranean and east Africa, the second was the Nazi challenge to the security of eastern Europe, and the lack of any effective international response to the dictators.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/magazine/ww-ii-75th-anniversary.html
Sept. 2, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the official end of World War II, a conflict that changed millions of lives and the course of global history. For our Beyond the World War II We Know

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-churchill-roosevelt-and-stalin-planned-to-end-the-second-world-war
How Churchill, Roosevelt And Stalin. Planned To End The Second World War. Yalta, a seaside resort on Russia's Black Sea Crimean coast, was the scene of the second and last wartime conference between the 'Big Three' Allied war leaders, Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. It was held between 4 and 11 February 1945 and was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Turkey
The fear of a Soviet invasion and Stalin's unconcealed desire to control the Turkish Straits eventually led Turkey to give up its principle of neutrality in foreign relations and join NATO on February 18, 1952. Following NATO membership, Turkey initiated a comprehensive modernization program for its Armed Forces.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19448953.2021.1986778
He argued that as a 'friendly neutral', Turkey should be 'stimulated in every way' to encourage resistance to towards the Germans; this included 'sending whatever supplies possible in aircraft, anti-aircraft, tanks and anti-tank equipment'. 1. This letter goes some way in explaining Churchill's view of Turkey during the Second

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/us-wwii/v/1945-end-of-world-war-ii
1945 - End of World War II. World War II ends in 1945 with Allied victories in Europe and the Pacific. Key events include the Battle of the Bulge, the Yalta Conference, firebombing of cities, Hitler's suicide, VE Day, battles in the Pacific, and atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading to Japan's surrender on VJ Day.

https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/august-2017-stalingrad-75-turning-point-world-war-ii-europe?language_content_entity=en
This month, three quarters of a century ago, the most famous battle of the Second World War began. More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad between the Nazi and Soviet armies. Over 1.8 million became casualties. More Soviet soldiers died in the five-month battle than Americans in the entire war. But by February 2, 1943, when the Germans trapped in the

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/insider/World-War-II-end.html
Stories about the six-year global conflict that killed tens of millions of soldiers and civilians often surround these events, but they are hardly the only ones. About 75 years ago, on Sept. 2

https://wwiidigitalarchives.org/
This site offers free-for-download documents from the World War 2 era, with a focus on military archives. The site is updated regularly. New files are added on dedicated pages. We don't keep a change log. Some of the rolls are low resolution instead of high quality. If you have the high quality version, please contact site administration for

https://time.com/5832549/world-war-ii-memory/
The subsequent fighting ultimately led to the deaths of an estimated 26 million people across the Soviet Union. After the war's end in 1945, the annexed region of Poland became part of the USSR

https://www.dw.com/en/world-war-ii-and-the-battle-over-collective-memory-in-eastern-europe/a-53356626
It also has some of the world's largest war memorials: "The Motherland calls" is the name of this statue. Visible from afar, it is 85 meters (279 feet) high and commemorates the Battle of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_War_of_Independence
Turkish War of Independence; Part of the Revolutions of 1917-1923 in the aftermath of World War I: Clockwise from top left: Delegation gathered in Sivas Congress to determine the objectives of the Turkish National Movement; Turkish civilians carrying ammunition to the front; Kuva-yi Milliye infantry; Turkish horse cavalry in chase; Turkish Army's capture of Smyrna; troops in Ankara's Ulus

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/World_War_II
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, participated in the conflict, and many invested all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources.

https://www.dw.com/en/the-battle-of-stalingrad-a-decisive-turning-point-in-ww2/a-42344954
02/02/2023. Eighty years ago, the surrender of Nazi Germany's Sixth Army marked the end of the Battle of Stalingrad. Today, Russia uses commemoration events for its campaign against Ukraine and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Cold_War
A Second Cold War, [1] [2] Cold War II, [3] [4] or the New Cold War [5] [6] [7] has been said to describe heightened geopolitical tensions in the 21st century. The terms have been used to describe tense relations between the United States and China and between the United States and Russia —the successor state of the Soviet Union, which led

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/the-yalta-conference/
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and code named the Argonaut Conference, was held from February 4 to 11, 1945. This World War II meeting comprised the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill

https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/The-Soviet-advance-to-the-Oder-January-February-1945
Summarize This Article At the end of 1944 the Germans still held the western half of Poland, and their front was still 200 miles east of where it had been at the start of the war in 1939. The Germans had checked the Soviets' summer offensive and had established a firm line along the Narew and Vistula rivers southward to the Carpathians, and in October they repelled the Red Army's attempted

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/allies-roosevelt-churchill-stalin-won-world-war-II
Churchill, the United Kingdom's prime minister, was a bullish aristocrat famous for his brandy and cigars while Roosevelt, the U.S. president, had a well-known antipathy to the British Empire

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/23/1119139781/stalingrad-germans-soviets-hitler-stalin-wwii-world-war-ii
Keystone/Getty Images. The Battle of Stalingrad, with its five months of fierce fighting, began exactly 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1942. An estimated 750,000 Soviets died defending the city

https://www.worldhistory.org/Second_Crusade/
The Second Crusade (1147-1149 CE) was a military campaign organised by the Pope and European nobles to recapture the city of Edessa in Mesopotamia which had fallen in 1144 CE to the Muslim Seljuk Turks. Despite an army of 60,000 and the presence of two western kings, the crusade was not successful in the Levant and caused further tension between the Byzantine Empire and the west.