Aftermath of World War II
Find out what the G.I. Bill of Rights provided for our World War II veterans.
Learn about the Berlin Blockade created by the Soviet Union and how the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact formed.
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Military leaders of Nazi Germany were brought to trial before the International Military Tribunal. Find out more from the Nuremberg Trials Resources at the Library of Congress. View photos, artifacts, and listen to a testimony at United States Holocaust Museum site.
How did India achieve independence from the British Empire? How did India's independence form the country of Pakistan?
The United Nations was established in 1945. What was the purpose? Who were the members at that time?
When the men got back from war, they started families. Between 1946 and 1964 seventy-six million babies were born in the U.S.A.
This picture is an aerial shot of Levittown. William Levitt learned how to mass produce pre-fabricated homes resulting in the beginnings of Levittown, a city with cookie-cutter houses, in 1947. Levit homes gave middle class families an affordable way to own a home outside of the city.
Levittown." The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. © 1994, 2000-2006, on Infoplease. © 2000–2007 Pearson Education, publishing as Infoplease. 29 Apr. 2011<http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/ A0829585.html>