In 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt convinces a largely isolationist Congress to pass the Lend-Lease Act, allowing the U.S. to sell or lend war materials to "any country whose defense the ...

Nation & World News 80th anniversary of D-Day: Timeline of invasion that changed the course of World War II Published: Jun. 06, 2024, 6:45 a.m.

Description World War II was a worldwide conflict that took place from 1939 to 1945, beginning with Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. It involved most of the world powers at ...

• June 22, 1945. The Battle of Okinawa — the last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II ends with victory for the Allied Forces. The Okinawa campaign continued until U.S ...

Capable of filling holes in Koh Samui’s World War II timeline is Paul Chambers, an expert on civil-military relations and democratization in Southeast Asia at Thailand’s Naresuan University.