The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt ... and the post-war world. Major Acts As with Lincoln, the other great wartime president, it is difficult to adequately sum up ...

Narrator: After World War Two, a 45-year struggle for global ... Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union), Franklin Roosevelt (USA) and Winston Churchill (UK)decided that Germany would be split into four ...

Black grouse and caviar helped Stalin get much of what he wanted, but his Red Army counted for more, says a notable historian ...

Born in 1882, some 17 years after the Civil War ended ... to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, Stalin wasn't necessarily a fan of the drink, claiming it to be "cold on the stomach ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt implements the New Deal ... social reform and resistance against Russia and the developing Cold War. Eleanor speaks on "The Struggles for the Rights of Man ...

On their anniversaries, Yalta and Helsinki offer lessons for Ukraine, Trump, and the balance of power in Europe.

President Franklin Roosevelt will ask the Congress to delcare ... thereby setting the stage for future Cold War clashes. March: U.S. forces cross the Rhine River. The Germans retreat into Germany.

After succeeding Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, Harry S. Truman won the presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican Thomas Dewey and achieving one of the most stunning political comebacks ...