On this day in history, May 8, 1945, President Harry Truman announced to the American people that Nazi Germany's forces had surrendered in World War II — and that "the flags of freedom fly all over ...

The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, in the Cecilienhof Palace. The key issues discussed and ...

"I felt as if I had lived five lifetimes in those first days as president," Truman said of his ascension from vice president upon FDR's death, April 12, 1945, during World War II.

With World War II winding down in Europe, President Harry S. Truman issued a proclamation calling on the nation to give special attention to Mother’s Day. “It is fitting that we acknowledge a new our ...

Two specters haunt the leaders of the U.S., Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Canada and the U.K. as they convene in Hiroshima, Japan, for the G-7 summit: the Doomsday Clock and the ghost of Harry S.

"I felt as if I had lived five lifetimes in those first days as president," Truman said of his ascension from vice president upon FDR's death, April 12, 1945, during World War II. On May 7, Germany ...