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Eighty years after WWII’s end, the consensus it forged is crumbling

When a U.S.-led armada sailed into Tokyo Bay 80 years ago to accept the Japanese surrender in World War II, it was just 27 days after an atomic bomb killed some 70,000 people in a single blow at ...
NPR

It's been 80 years since the United Nations was formed

As the United Nations turns 80, NPR examines its legacy, its current challenges, and what lies ahead for the world's multilateral body. It's been 80 years since the United Nations was formed. Today, ...
The Diplomat

Memory as Destiny: China and East Asia 80 Years After World War II

History in East Asia is never just history. It is weaponized, re-scripted, and deeply entangled in present-day struggles for legitimacy, identity, and power. Eighty years after the guns fell silent in ...
NorthJersey.com

We remember these NJ veterans as the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII approaches

Here are some of New Jersey's WWII veterans who came home changed and worked to reshape their world. Of the 16.4 million soldiers who served in WWII, 66,000 remain. WWII veterans have an average age ...
Santa Maria Times

Remembering World War II’s end, 80 years later | Guest Commentary

Sept. 2 marks 80 years since Imperial Japan’s formal surrender aboard US MISSOURI (BB 63), ending the Second World War. (0 Ratings) ...
usace.army.mil

80 YEARS LATER: Recalling end of World War II at Camp McCoy

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri. At then-Camp McCoy, Wis., the thousands of ...
Reuters

Harvard Law releases digitized Nuremberg Trials archive on 80th anniversary

Nov 20 (Reuters) - Eighty years to the day after Allied forces began prosecuting Nazi leaders for war crimes committed during World War Two, Harvard Law School on Thursday released a newly-digitized, ...