Image credits
Sharpn's videos about the photographic era use authentic archival photographs from Wikimedia Commons. Most are public domain; works under Creative Commons licenses are credited below with links to their source and license terms. We thank the photographers and archives who keep history visible.
Yalta And Potsdam Conferences
- Yalta Conference 1945 Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt.jpg — Public domain
- Yalta Conference (Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin) (B&W).jpg — Public domain
- ConferenciaDeYaltaChurchillTrumanYStalin--BU 009197.jpg — Public domain
- Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and President Truman (Potsdam Conference, July 1945).jpg — Public domain
- Graffiti inside the ruins of the German Reichstag building.jpg — Public domain
- 2nd from left, Vishinsky, 4th from left, Harriman, 5th from left, Molotov, 6th from left, Eden, 7th from left... - NARA - 197291.jpg — Public domain
The Iron Curtain Speech
- 1946-03-05 Sinews of Peace Speech.png — Public domain
- 1946-Stalin-Book.jpg — Public domain
- Photograph of President Truman waving his hat and Winston Churchill flashing his famous "V for Victory" sign from the... - NARA - 199350.jpg — Public domain
- Iron Curtain as described by Churchill.PNG — CC BY-SA 3.0
- Stalin and Gazanfar Musabeyov.jpg — Public domain
- Christmas Tree in West Berlin - Flickr - The Central Intelligence Agency.jpg — Public domain
- Berlin-Mauerfall-3-10-November-1989.jpg — CC0
Truman Doctrine And Marshall Plan
- Ardizzone records the scene in his diary on 26 April 1945- 'To Bremen again with Brian de Grineau. The city is a dead one - ruins everywhere, a drunken Dutchman reeling down the street.' Art.IWMARTLD5266.jpg — Public domain
- Arnall takes over the Capitol building reception desk.png — CC0
- Special Message to Congress on Greece and Turkey The Truman Doctrine.jpg — Public domain
- MarshallDonkey.jpg — Public domain
- C-54 landing at Tempelhof 1948.jpg — Public domain
- Filmmuseum Berlin - Marlene Dietrich A Foreign Affair Gown.jpg — CC BY-SA 4.0
Berlin Blockade And Airlift
- Entrance to the National Memorial Arboretum and the Berlin Airlift Memorial - geograph.org.uk - 1566560.jpg — CC BY-SA 2.0
- Avro Tudor - Airflight at Wunstorf - The Berlin Airlift 1948 - 1949 HU98411.jpg — Public domain
- C-54 landing at Tempelhof 1948.jpg — Public domain
- Retired Colonel Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen - The Candy Bomber (5474340).jpg — Public domain
- Avro York - Wunstorf - The Berlin Airlift 1948 - 1949 HU98413.jpg — Public domain
- C-74 Globemaster unloading flour at Berlin Gatow during Operation Vittles.jpg — Public domain
- Avro Tudor - The Berlin Airlift 1948 - 1949 HU98410.jpg — Public domain
Formation Of Nato And Warsaw Pact
- Destroyed Residences Berlin.jpg — CC0
- C-54 landing at Tempelhof 1948.jpg — Public domain
- NATO vs Warsaw (1949-1990).png — CC BY-SA 3.0
- Joseph Stalin official portrait.jpg — Public domain
- Warsaw Pact 1955.jpg — Public domain
- The Province of Munster Divided into its Counties wherein are distinguished all the Borroughs &c. - By H. Moll Geographer - btv1b53056246x.jpg — Public domain
- Border watchtower in East Germany - East Germany, a country study (1988).jpg — Public domain
The Nuclear Arms Race Begins
- Nagasaki mushroom cloud.jpg — Public domain
- Robert Oppenheimer (left) and General Leslie Groves (right) at Ground Zero of the nuclear bomb test site.jpg — CC0
- Joseph Stalin official portrait.jpg — Public domain
- Pakistan Air Force Cold War Jets.jpg — Public domain
- Castle Bravo Shrimp Device 002 - restoration1.jpg — Public domain
- Shelters (North Dakota) - DPLA - ef27e15698569e49d5019a37a1006406.jpg — Public domain
Korean War
- Demoralization Leaflet 7255 Korean War.jpeg — Public domain
- 3RAR soldiers await the order to continue the advance north.jpg — Public domain
- Puller MacArthur Smith and Struble following Inchon Landings.jpg — Public domain
- 127-N-A5432.jpg — Public domain
- Demoralization Leaflet 8321 Korean War.jpeg — Public domain
- Buildings at Panmunjom, February 1956.jpg — Public domain
Death Of Stalin And Destalinization
- A.J. Muste, anti-war activist, cropped.jpg — Public domain
- Lavrentiy Beria portrait.jpg — Public domain
- Nikita Khrushchev 1962.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
- Nyugati (Marx) tér, Népbüfé (Ilkovics). A szovjet csapatok ideiglenes kivonulása 1956. október 31-én. T-54-es harckocsi. Fortepan 18629.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Nikita and Mrs Khrushchev, and Andrei Gromyko at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park - NARA - 196281.jpg — Public domain
- The Kremlin Office of the Russian President, Senate Building, Kremlin.jpg — CC BY 4.0
Hungarian Revolution
- 1956, Budapest, Üllői út - József körút.jpg — Public domain
- 02. Stalin's statue toppled in Hungary.jpg — CC BY-SA 4.0
- Nagy Imre igazolványkép.jpg — Public domain
- Soviet tank in Budapest 1956.jpg — Public domain
- Hongaarse kinderen in jaarbeurshal, Bestanddeelnr 908-1436.jpg — CC0
- Color flag of 1956.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
Sputnik And The Space Race
- Sputnik 1 satellite model.png — Public domain
- Sputnik 1.jpg — Public domain
- Vanguard rocket explodes.jpg — Public domain
- Kennedy at Rice University - GPN-2000-001618.jpg — Public domain
- Explorer 1 Model With Cutaway Showing Science Components.jpg — Public domain
- Apollo 11 bootprint.jpg — Public domain
Berlin Wall Construction
- Tensions ran high at Checkpoint Charlie in 1961 as Easterners fled to West, Berlin Wall went up.jpg — Public domain
- East Germans Build New Wall - Flickr - The Central Intelligence Agency.jpg — Public domain
- Berlin Wall death strip, 1977.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- Constructing Berlin Wall - Flickr - The Central Intelligence Agency.jpg — Public domain
- Politicians at Brandenburg Gate opening 1989.JPEG — Public domain
- The Berlin Wall 1961 - 1989 HU99516.jpg — Public domain
Cuban Missile Crisis
- Kennedy children visit the Oval Office, October 1962.jpg — Public domain
- U2 Image of Cuban Missile Crisis.jpg — Public domain
- President Kennedy with advisors after EXCOMM meeting, 29 October 1962.jpg — Public domain
- President John F. Kennedy Delivers Address Regarding the Crisis in Cuba (02).jpg — Public domain
- USS The Sullivans (DD-537) underway off Newport, Rhode Island (USA), on 29 October 1962 (USN 1063618).jpg — Public domain
- Cuban missiles.jpg — Public domain
- US Navy cruisers in the Med in 1962.jpg — Public domain
Vietnam War Escalation
- USS Maddox (DD-731) underway at sea, circa the early 1960s (NH 97900).jpg — Public domain
- 0040223 My Son Group A, Cham Hindu temples complex, Vietnam 007.jpg — CC0
- North Vietnamese P-4 under fire from USS Maddox (2 August 1964).jpg — Public domain
- Lyndon B. Johnson Oval Office Portrait (cropped).png — Public domain
- Marine da nang.jpg — Public domain
- A deserted street in Saigon during the Tet fighting.jpg — Public domain
- 2.4 Marines search a village during Operation Starlite.jpg — Public domain
Prague Spring
- Prague-1968-street-block.jpg — Public domain
- (Zari68)Alexander Dubcek B.jpg — Public domain
- Portrait of Alexander Dubcek in August 23rd, 1968.jpg — CC0
- Prague-1968-street-scene.jpg — Public domain
- Soviet tanks - Hradcany Square Prague - via Swiss embassy 1968-08-21.png — CC BY 4.0
- Jan Palach Cross, Praha CZ.jpg — CC0
Detente Era
- President Richard Nixon and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev Signing the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and Interim Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) Agreement - DPLA - e8e61af3f57b9fdb3beb10652b1fc770.jpg — Public domain
- Nixon Kosygin May 1972.jpg — Public domain
- President Richard Nixon and Chairman Nikolai Podgorny Shaking Hands at the Moscow Summit - DPLA - b74bd86d4b138b842a7ce9ab77326292.jpg — Public domain
- President Richard Nixon and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev Signing the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and Interim Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) Agreement - DPLA - e8e61af3f57b9fdb3beb10652b1fc770.jpg — Public domain
- Soviet-Afghan War collage.jpg — CC0
- Photograph of President Gerald R. Ford and Members of the American Delegation Taking a Break at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Helsinki, Finland - NARA - 7462031.jpg — Public domain
Soviet Afghan War
- Soviet-Afghan War collage.jpg — CC0
- Afghan Muja crossing from Saohol Sar pass in Durand border region of Pakistan, August 1985.png — CC BY-SA 1.0
- Mujahideen village.JPEG — Public domain
- Carter Brezhnev sign SALT II.jpg — Public domain
- RIAN archive 58833 Withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- 15th Spetsnaz Brigade strike into Pakistan during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.png — Public domain
Reagan And The Second Cold War
- President Ronald Reagan Working at His Desk in The Oval Office - DPLA - 0ed418380a6e244d059899e4d2c190cd.jpg — Public domain
- Natural metal B-1B Lancer at Tinker Air Force Base.jpg — Public domain
- Reagan’s meeting with Oleg Gordievsky in the Oval Office (07).jpg — Public domain
- Mortar attack on Shigal Tarna garrison, Kunar Province, 87.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- President Ronald Reagan Says Goodbye to Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev After The Last Meeting at Hofdi House Reykjavik Iceland - DPLA - d9d8b7c77e5d309bfee95fca303feea3.jpg — Public domain
- President Ronald Reagan Making His Berlin Wall Speech at Brandenburg Gate West Berlin - DPLA - dce9b53e6ef9b7e01d184ce61f78871b.jpg — Public domain
- President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev at the signing of the INF Treaty in the East Room - DPLA - fb9de96138345ea79ef156864120364a.jpg — Public domain
- Mur de Berlin à Bethaniendamm, août 1989.jpg — CC BY-SA 4.0
Gorbachev's Reforms
- RIAN archive 850809 General Secretary of the CPSU CC M. Gorbachev.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- RIAN archive 667881 US president George Bush and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0529-029, Berlin, Tagung Warschauer Pakt, Gruppenfoto.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- Lenin Mausoleum July 1983.jpg — CC BY 4.0
- Berlin 1989, Fall der Mauer, Chute du mur 22.jpg — CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ночная Москва Красная площадь Собор Василия Блаженного в 1985 году с черно-белыми - Moscow at night Red Square St. Basil Cathedral in 1985 wit - panoramio.jpg — CC BY 3.0
- Perestroika bilboard on Kirova Street.jpg — CC BY 4.0
Fall Of The Berlin Wall
- Crane removed part of Wall Brandenburg Gate.jpg — Public domain
- Bundesarchiv Bild 173-1288, Berlin, Mauerbau.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1127-033, Leipzig, Montagsdemonstration.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1109-030, Berlin, Schabowski auf Pressekonferenz.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- West and East Germans at the Brandenburg Gate in 1989.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- Juggling on the Berlin Wall 1a.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989, people walking.jpg — CC BY-SA 2.0
Dissolution Of The Soviet Union
- 1991 coup attempt1.jpg — Public domain
- RIAN archive 786424 Rally on Tverskaya Street.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- RIAN archive 770913 The final speech of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee M. Gorbachev cropped.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- West and East Germans at the Brandenburg Gate in 1989.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- Image0 ST.jpg — Public domain
- BaltskýŘetěz.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- Boris Yeltsin 22 August 1991-1.jpg — CC BY 4.0
The Assassination Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- 1914-06-29 - Aftermath of attacks against Serbs in Sarajevo - Street photo 3.jpg — Public domain
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, June 1914 Q91848.jpg — Public domain
- DC-1914-27-d-Sarajevo-cropped.jpg — Public domain
- Ferdinand Behr arrested in Sarajevo 1914.jpg — Public domain
- Europe 1914 Shepherd.jpg — Public domain
- Franz Ferdinand original plaque 1916.jpg — Public domain
The July Crisis And Mobilization
- 1914-06-29 - Aftermath of attacks against Serbs in Sarajevo - Street photo 3.jpg — Public domain
- DC-1914-27-d-Sarajevo-cropped.jpg — Public domain
- Leopold Berchtold (23.4.1914).jpg — Public domain
- Gavrilo Princip, prison, infobox crop.jpg — CC BY-SA 4.0
- The Wounded at Dover, 1918 Art.IWMART1273.jpg — Public domain
- Wounded passing through Snow Hill Railway Station, Birmingham Art.IWMART3717.jpg — Public domain
The Schlieffen Plan And The Invasion Of Belgium
- German Imperial Army on Manoeuvres, 1906; Winston Churchill, General Hamilton and Lord Lonsdale with Kaiser Wilhelm II HU53858.jpg — Public domain
- Mobilization order is read out in Berlin, 1 August 1914.jpg — Public domain
- Albert I., King of the Belgians, c. 1914.jpg — Public domain
- Interior of the Famous Library at Louvain destroyed during World War I.jpg — Public domain
- Sarcy, Ville-en-tardenois, August, 1918 Art.IWMART3394.jpg — Public domain
- The Belgian Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918 Q9017.jpg — Public domain
The Battle Of The Marne
- The Second Battle of the Marne, July-august 1918 Q6869.jpg — Public domain
- March past of the 1st Canadian Infantry Batt., in France. Major General Sir Sam , Bestanddeelnr 158-2811.jpg — CC0
- Taxi de la Marne, Musée de l'Armée-IMG 0987.jpg — CC BY-SA 2.0 fr
- Le taxi de la Marne aux Invalides (près du taxi, de g. à d. le chauffeur Etienne) Germain (le chauffeur Louis) Gouault (le) général Maleterre (i.e. Malleterrre, le 21 décembre 1922) - btv1b53095000q.jpg — Public domain
- 1st Battalion Cameronians (scottish Rifles) on the Western Front, 1914 - 1915 Q51587.jpg — Public domain
- The battle of Meaux September 1914.jpg — Public domain
The Race To The Sea
- German soldiers Battle of Marne WWI.jpg — Public domain
- Fortified regions in Northern France and Belgium, 1914.jpg — Public domain
- 111-SC-1063 - French soldiers decorated with Croix de Guerre by General Michel - NARA - 55163449 (cropped).jpg — Public domain
- Ramscapelle. Les inondations de l'Yser - The Yser Floods, GP060034.jpg — Public domain
- Aerial view of trenches in France - USACE-p15141coll5-10553.jpeg — Public domain
- German artillery forces the English fleet on the Belgian coast to retreat, 1914.png — Public domain
The Eastern Front Opens
- Gw moltke 01.jpg — Public domain
- Tannenberg 001.jpg — Public domain
- Marconi operator aboard ship "Deutschland", at his instruments LCCN2014683102.jpg — Public domain
- Alexander-samsonow.jpg — Public domain
- Stab-8.Armee.jpg — Public domain
- Russian infantry 1914 railroad.jpg — Public domain
Trench Warfare And The Western Front
- Deutsche Parlamentärsflagge während des Ersten Weltkriegs in einem Schützengraben in Frankreich.jpg — Public domain
- Front-1914-5.jpg — Public domain
- NLS Haig - Watching the Boche trench through a periscope.jpg — Public domain
- Going over the top 01.jpg — Public domain
- The Battle of Cambrai, November-december 1917 Q6433.jpg — Public domain
- StateLibQld 2 119200 Lonely grave in the Middle Eastern desert after World War I.jpg — Public domain
- Chateau Wood Ypres 1917.jpg — Public domain
The Gallipoli Campaign
- HMS Queen Elizabeth Shelling Forts, Dardanelles. the attack on the Narrows, Gallipoli, 18th March, 1915 Art.IWMART249.jpg — Public domain
- HMS Irresistible abandoned 18 March 1915.jpg — Public domain
- Landing of Australian troops at ANZAC Cove, 25 April 1915 slnsw.jpg — Public domain
- Mustafa Kemal during the Gallipoli Campaign.jpg — Public domain
- Southern Trench in Lone Pine, Gallipoli, 8 August 1915 -Graphic Content- (17797424431).jpg — CC BY 2.0
- Evacuation de la baie de Suvla (Dardanelles, presqu'île de Gallipoli, janvier 1916) - btv1b69457851.jpg — Public domain
- Graves at Gallipoli (28912764968).jpg — CC BY 2.0
The Sinking Of The Lusitania
- Lusitania Sinking, the Greatest of Ocean Tragedies.jpg — Public domain
- Lusitania arriving in New York 3.jpg — Public domain
- German U-boat submarine engraving 1915.jpg — Public domain
- Doomed Lusitania.jpg — Public domain
- Remember the Lusitania, 976499-001.jpg — Public domain
- Survivants et victimes du Lusitania à Quennstown 1915.jpg — Public domain
The Battle Of Verdun
- Barrage fire on Verdun from Barancourt (February 22, 1916).png — Public domain
- The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916 Q4589.jpg — Public domain
- Philippe Pétain (34604146344).png — CC BY 2.0
- French 87th Regiment Cote 34 Verdun 1916.jpg — Public domain
- M 122 2 carte fort de Douaumont.jpg — Public domain
- Bataille de Verdun 1916.jpg — Public domain
The Battle Of The Somme
- Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt mine (1 July 1916) 1.jpg — Public domain
- British artillery in action, World War I.JPEG — Public domain
- The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916 Q1486 (cropped).jpg — Public domain
- British infantry Morval 25 September 1916.jpg — Public domain
- British Mark I male tank Somme 25 September 1916.jpg — Public domain
- The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916 Q7797.jpg — Public domain
The Russian Revolution
- Revolución-marzo-rusia--russianbolshevik00rossuoft.png — Public domain
- The Russian Revolution seen and painted by Edvard Saltoft, 1924.jpg — Public domain
- CocheRequisadoEnPetrogradoMarzo1917--russiainrevolut00jone.jpg — Public domain
- Speech of Grigory Zinoviev on May 1st 1918 Petrograd.jpg — Public domain
- Stormningen av vinterpalatset.jpg — Public domain
- 1938 CPA 593 yellow paper.jpg — Public domain
- VictimOfInternational.jpg — Public domain
America Enters The War
- Junction at Main Street, Spring Street, and 9th Street, Los Angeles, ca.1917 (CHS-5767).jpg — Public domain
- President Woodrow Wilson speaking to a crowd from the back of a train, January, 1916 LCCN2002719584.jpg — Public domain
- Sinking of the Lusitania London Illus News.jpg — Public domain
- Colleges and Universities - University of Kansas - one of the volunteer cadet companies of the Kansas University regiment that was formed in 1917 immediately after America entered the war - NARA - 26429068.jpg — Public domain
- For the freedom of the world LCCN2002716887.jpg — Public domain
- USA infantry Verdun WWI.jpg — Public domain
- American soldiers on furlough in southern France 1918.jpg — Public domain
The Third Battle Of Ypres Passchendaele
- James Kerr-Lawson-The Cloth Hall, Ypres (CWM 19710261-0334).jpeg — Public domain
- Harold Septimus Power - Bringing up the guns.jpg — Public domain
- Alfred Theodore Joseph Bastien - Canadian Gunners in the Mud.jpg — Public domain
- The Royal Visits To the Western Front, 1914-1918 Q5676.jpg — Public domain
- Second Battle of Passchendaele - Field of Mud.jpg — Public domain
- World War I New Zealand Engineers resting in a large shell hole at Spree Farm (21637826216).jpg — Public domain
- Chateau Wood Ypres 1917.jpg — Public domain
The German Spring Offensive
- Western front. The Emperor on the way through a communication trench to a position. April 4, 1918 - NARA - 17391622.jpg — Public domain
- German troops in Finland. Advance of German railway pioneers on the track between Hnago and Helsingfors. April 1918 - NARA - 17391758.jpg — Public domain
- Portret van de Duitse Generaal-kwartiermeester Ludendorff, RP-F-F02907.jpg — CC0
- The German Spring Offensive, March-july 1918 Q6653.jpg — Public domain
- The German Spring Offensive, March-july 1918 Q7931.jpg — Public domain
- The German Spring Offensive, March-july 1918 Q8735.jpg — Public domain
- The Vision of St George over the Battlefield Art.IWMART15600.jpg — Public domain
The Hundred Days Offensive
- The British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918 Q8434.jpg — Public domain
- The Hundred Days Offensive, August-november 1918 Q68975.jpg — Public domain
- Hindenburg-ludendorff.jpg — Public domain
- WesternFrontJuly15-1918.jpg — Public domain
- A Ration Party of the 4th Black Watch at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 1915 Art.IWMART1917.jpg — Public domain
- Hořehledy, pomník padlých.jpg — CC BY-SA 4.0
The Armistice
- The British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918 Q8434.jpg — Public domain
- Waffenstillstand gr.jpg — Public domain
- Marshal Foch, Om Art.IWMART3046.jpg — Public domain
- Captured German Guns in the Mall, 1918 Art.IWMART1134.jpg — Public domain
- Armistice Day Celebrations, London, 11 November 1918 Q65858.jpg — Public domain
- Armistice night from the steps of St. Martins, London - DPLA - dd372ef10cf6117c0bc984357e3ffb5b.jpg — Public domain
- Sarcy, Ville-en-tardenois, August, 1918 Art.IWMART3394.jpg — Public domain
The Paris Peace Conference
- William Orpen - The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors.jpg — Public domain
- Paris Peace Conference 1919 big four.jpg — Public domain
- The Terms of the Armistice, 3rd and 4th November, 1918 Art.IWMART4208.jpg — Public domain
- Orpen, William (Sir) (RA) - The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28th June 1919 - Google Art Project.jpg — Public domain
- Democratic Ideals and Reality, 1919 Fig 28 p 154.jpg — Public domain
- Paris leave Jan 1919, View from the Palace of Versailles looking over the gardens.jpg — Public domain
The Treaty Of Versailles
- Military Operations - British Patrol raids German dug out. A daylight patrol out to mop up German trenches. A soldier is seen firing into a dugout when the Germans refused to reply - DPLA - 7865c9c55175050f7e6f6f18c87c980e.jpg — Public domain
- Eerste Wereldoorlog, Vredesverdragen, SFA022824854.jpg — Public domain
- William Orpen – The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles 1919, Ausschnitt.jpg — Public domain
- Georges Clemenceau & General Pershing.jpg — Public domain
- Big-Four-Paris 1919.jpg — Public domain
- Ferdinand Foch Marcel Baschet 1925.jpg — Public domain
- Sketch of the Table in the Hall of Mirrors, at which the Treaty of Versailles was Signed Art.IWMART4213.jpg — Public domain
The Legacy And Consequences Of The Great War
- Sarcy, Ville-en-tardenois, August, 1918 Art.IWMART3394.jpg — Public domain
- Anciens centre du village de Chuzelles.jpg — Public domain
- Dignitaries gathering in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, France, to sign the Treaty of Versailles.jpg — Public domain
- Lopokova and Keynes 1920s cropped.jpg — Public domain
- Chateau Wood Ypres 1917.jpg — Public domain
The Rise Of Fascism
- Orpen's subjects comprised abandoned trenches, craters, graves, wreckage (including battle damaged tanks), and the casualties of the fighting, the unburied bodies of enemy soldiers. This delicate and eerie ima Art.IWMART2385.jpg — Public domain
- Operai della Snia-Viscosa 1932.jpg — Public domain
- Mussolini-Pola-1930.png — Public domain
- Mussolini and Hitler 1940 (retouched).jpg — Public domain
- NSDAP Kreistreffen 25-26-6-38 Karte Gemälde von Elk Eber 1933 25-26th June 1938 unspecified Kreis commemorating the District Meeting of the NSDAP Big card Nazi Party propaganda SA Sturmabteilung No known copyright restrictions.jpg — Public domain
- The German-soviet Invasion of Poland, 1939 HU106367.jpg — Public domain
- German troops parade through Warsaw, Poland, 09-1939 - NARA - 559369.jpg — Public domain
The Invasion Of Poland
- Oddział piechoty niemieckiej podczas marszu (2-39).jpg — Public domain
- Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-121-0010-20, Polen, Kolonne motorisierter deutscher Truppen.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- Polish officers (POW) of Westerplatte-7.09.1939.jpg — Public domain
- The Home Front in Britain during the Second World War HU36171.jpg — Public domain
- Poland in 1939.jpg — Public domain
- Warsaw during WWII - Two Germans.jpg — Public domain
The Phoney War And Fall Of France
- Troops of 51st Highland Division march over a drawbridge into Fort de Sainghain on the Maginot Line, 3 November 1939. O227.jpg — Public domain
- French soldiers on Maginot Line.jpg — Public domain
- Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1978-062-24, Floing, Pontonbrücke über die Maas.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- Dunkirk Beaches, 1940 Art.IWMARTLD2277.jpg — Public domain
- The Fall of France 1940 HU93606.jpg — Public domain
- Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-126-0347-09A, Paris, Deutsche Truppen am Arc de Triomphe.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0 de
The Battle Of Britain
- Models being prepared to be flown in the 1966 film "The Battle of Britain" at RAF Duxford..jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- Hawker Hurricane Mk I of No. 85 Squadron RAF, October 1940. CH1501.jpg — Public domain
- Winston Churchill As Prime Minister 1940-1945 H16429.jpg — Public domain
- Pilots of No. 19 Squadron RAF stage a mock 'scramble' from the back of a truck at Fowlmere near Duxford, September 1940. CH1398.jpg — Public domain
- Heinkel He 111 during the Battle of Britain.jpg — Public domain
- Battle of britain air observer.jpg — Public domain
Operation Barbarossa
- Operation Barbarossa corrected border.png — Public domain
- Operation Barbarossa 6 lines of attack Why We Fight no. 5.jpg — Public domain
- Bundesarchiv Bild 183-L18678, Hitler, von Brauchitsch, Keitel bei Besprechung.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- Soviet prisoners of war under the Lithuanian rebels (Lithuanian Activist Front) control in Eastern Lithuania, 1941.jpg — Public domain
- Bilder Bogen vom Kriege (Mappe 41 x 29 cm c 1942) 24 Igelstellung in der Winterschlacht (Eastern Winter Campaign 1941-1942) (DPA Herbert Rothgaengel d. 1945 Gustav Kühn Neuruppin) Nazi Germany WW2 propaganda war print comic book No c.jpg — Public domain
- Soviet soldiers with PTRD-41 defending Moscow.jpg — Public domain
- Operation Barbarossa - broken tank.jpg — Public domain
Pearl Harbor
- Aerial view of Pearl Harbor in June 1941.jpg — Public domain
- USS Arizona (BB-39) burning at Pearl Harbor 1941.jpg — Public domain
- Dorie Miller - Restoration, full.jpg — Public domain
- Isoroku Yamamoto 41?.jpg — Public domain
- USS SHAW exploding Pearl Harbor Nara 80-G-16871 2.jpg — Public domain
- Japanese aircraft attacking Pearl Harbor, 1941.jpg — CC0
The Holocaust Begins
- NurembergNovember1935.JPG — Public domain
- The day after Kristallnacht.jpg — Public domain
- Bundesarchiv Bild 102-14597, Berlin, Opernplatz, Bücherverbrennung.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- Reinhard Heydrich 1940 Portrait (3x4 cropped).jpg — Public domain
- Judenstern JMW.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- The Wall of ghetto in Warsaw - Building on Nazi-German order August 1940.jpg — Public domain
The Battle Of Midway
- PBY on patrol during WWII.jpeg — Public domain
- Pacific arena, 1942.jpg — Public domain
- Midway (1976) Press Photo of Dale Ishimoto.jpg — Public domain
- Still from 1942 film Battle of Midway shot by John Ford 02.jpg — Public domain
- SBD-3 Dauntless bombers of VS-8 over the burning Japanese cruiser Mikuma on 6 June 1942.jpg — Public domain
- Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu burning on 5 June 1942 (NH 73064).jpg — Public domain
- USS Yorktown (CV-5) underway at Midway 1942.jpg — Public domain
The Siege Of Stalingrad
- RIAN archive 58807 Soldiers from Bezdetko's mortar battery.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- World War II collage.jpg — CC0
- Stalingrad city 1942.png — CC BY-SA 4.0
- Field Marshal Paulus, General Heitz and other German officers of the 6th Army after its surrender.jpg — Public domain
- Disfatta.jpg — Public domain
- RIAN archive 44732 Soviet soldiers attack house.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
The North African Campaign
- American M3 Grant medium tanks in the western desert, North African Campaign, WWII (36406680884).jpg — Public domain
- Italian prisoners captured at Sidi Barrani are marched into captivity.jpg — Public domain
- The Campaign in North Africa 1940-1943; British Army CBM1781.jpg — Public domain
- New Zealand soldiers storming, North African Campaign, 1940-43 (24332674154).jpg — Public domain
- The Campaign in North Africa 1940-1943 E18467.jpg — Public domain
- Crew of a Sherman-tank south of Vaucelles.jpg — Public domain
- RAF “Halifax” in the Middle East, North African Campaign, WWII (37125691761).jpg — Public domain
The Italian Campaign
- British troops wade ashore during the invasion of Sicily, 10 July 1943. NA4275.jpg — Public domain
- The Red Bull in the Winter Line.jpg — Public domain
- Marszałek Albert Kesselring na inspekcji na froncie włoskim (2-2076).jpg — Public domain
- Peter McIntyre, Air raid at Monte Cassino, February 1944 (16291761647).jpg — CC BY-SA 2.0
- Entry of Allied Troops Into Rome, 5 June 1944 TR1848.jpg — Public domain
- SC 270839 - L-R Cpl. Charles E. Gardner, 3581 E. 142nd St. Cleveland, Ohio, and Cpl. Wayne L. Ritter, 720 Sandusky St., Ashland, Ohio, take a good look at the Apennine landscape. 6 February, 1945. (52308188480).jpg — Public domain
D Day And Operation Overlord
- Invasion fleet en route to France on D-Day, June 6, 1944 La flotte d’invasion se dirigeant vers la France le jour J, 6 juin 1944 (7196114486).jpg — CC BY 2.0
- 2nd Infantry Division, E-1 draw, Easy Red sector, Omaha Beach, D+1, June 7, 1944.jpg — Public domain
- Eisenhower d-day.jpg — Public domain
- Normandy-June-6th-1944-US-troops-assault-Omaha-Beach-during-the-D-Day-landings-3.png — Public domain
- D-Day5.jpg — Public domain
- Operation Overlord (the Normandy Landings)- D-day 6 June 1944 A23992.jpg — Public domain
The Battle Of The Philippines
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during initial landings at Leyte, P.I. October 1944 HD-SN-99-02866.jpg — Public domain
- Burial detail at Camp O'Donnell after Bataan Death March.jpg — Public domain
- PT-32.jpg — Public domain
- 4th Marines at the philippines in January 1942.jpg — Public domain
- Douglas MacArthur lands Leyte1.jpg — Public domain
- 80-G-273411.jpg — Public domain
The Fall Of Berlin
- Bundesarchiv Bild 204-012, Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Georgenkirche.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- RIAN archive 607047 Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
- Ruins of the Reichstag in Berlin, 3 June 1945. BU8573.jpg — Public domain
- Yury Timoshenko in The Fall of Berlin.jpg — Public domain
- Berlin Reichstag2.jpg — Public domain
- Ruins of the Reichstag in Berlin, 3 June 1945. BU8573.jpg — Public domain
The Atomic Bombs
- Trinity shot color.jpg — Public domain
- HD.4G.053 (10540204545).jpg — Public domain
- Truman color portrait.jpg — Public domain
- B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay.jpg — Public domain
- Backus, Hiroshima, 1945.jpg — Public domain
- Formal Japan Surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri.jpg — Public domain
- NagasakiSurvivors1945.jpg — Public domain
Japan Surrenders
- Backus, Hiroshima, 1945.jpg — Public domain
- Atomic cloud over Hiroshima.jpg — Public domain
- Surrender of Japan - USS Missouri (restored).jpg — Public domain
- Formal Japan Surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri.jpg — Public domain
- Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender, officially ending the Second World War.jpg — Public domain
- USS New Mexico (BB-40) anchored in Tokyo Bay, circa in late August 1945 (NH 50232).jpg — Public domain
The Nuremberg Trials
- Palace of Justice, Nuremberg 17 November 1945.jpg — Public domain
- Defendants in the dock at nuremberg trials.jpg — Public domain
- Hermann Goering - Nuremberg 2 (cropped).jpg — Public domain
- Judge William C. Christianson presiding at the subsequent Nuremberg Trials.jpg — Public domain
- Horst Pelckmann, Nuremberg Trials defense lawyer.jpg — Public domain
- Defendants in the dock at the Nuremberg Trials.jpg — Public domain