Marshall Plan

The War Department considered coffee an essential element of the troops' diet. In 1942, coffee became so critical to the war efforts that Americans back home rationed coffee to preserve stocks for the soldiers.

Learn how media bias and anti-Mexican racism contributed to the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles in 1943.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt committed American forces to the Allied cause.

On June 6, 1944, the Allies invade Western Europe in the largest amphibious attack in history.