World War II. Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (1883- 1945), Il Duce from 1921. The fasces on Mussolini’s personal standard. Rome-Berlin Axis, 25 October.

World War II

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (1883-1945), Il Duce from 1921.The fasces on Mussolini’s personal standard.

Rome-Berlin Axis, 25 October 1936.

Hyper inflation in Germany, 1923.

• A disabled war veteran begging in the streets of Berlin.

• Buying potatoes.• Million Mark bills used as note

paper.

André Léon Blum (1872-1950), Prime Minister of France 1936-1937, 1938.

Chamberlain and Hitler leave the Bad Godesberg meeting, 23 September 1938.

Cartoon by David Low on the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939.

Cartoon by John Bernard Partridge from Punch, 2 Sept 1936.

The League of Nations assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, 1930.

Cartoon by John Bernard Partridge from Punch, 5 Sept 1935.

Adolf Hitler at a Nazi political rally in Weimar, October 1930.

Territorial changes in Europe and the Near East after the First World War.

Training of the Condor Legion, a unit composed of volunteers from the German Air Force and the German Army in support of Franco’s Nationalists. Ávila, 1939.

British volunteers in the International Brigades.Republican volunteers at Teruel, 1938.

Ruins of Guernica, 1937.

Pablo Picasso. Guernica, 1937. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.

A Japanese postcard published in 1938 to promote the Anti-Comintern Pact: "Good friends in three countries." Adolf Hitler, Fumimaro Konoe, Benito Mussolini.

German and Italian Expansion, 1936-1939.

The American 69th Infantry Division meets the Soviet 58th Guards. Staged photography by International News war correspondent Allan Jackson on April 26, 1945, the day following the actual Link-Up.

Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right). 6 and 9 August 1945.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) and Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the HMS Prince of Wales during the Atlantic Charter Conference. 10-12 August 1941.

Joseph Stalin, Franklin D Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill on the portico of the Russian Embassy during the Tehran Conference, 28 November 1943-1 December 1943.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta, 4-11 February 1945.

Prime Minister Clement Attlee, President Harry S Truman, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin meet in Potsdam, 17 July-2 August 1945.

Territorial Changes in Europe following World War II.

Aerial photograph of Cologne, courtesy of the 303rd Bomb Group Association.