Following World War II, the United States helped establish international institutions including the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the International Court of Justice

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Medgar Evers served in Normandy during World War II before returning to Mississippi to organize voter registration efforts

The Telegraph compared the national security fallout of the Nvidia Jensen Huang scandal to the Klaus Fuchs 1940s atomic espionage case that aided the Soviet nuclear program

During World War II, commercial development of penicillin was completed in nine months to treat venereal diseases in Allied soldiers

The modern organizational structure of the Russian General Staff was established during the Second World War

American intelligence agent Virginia Hall conducted covert espionage operations in German-occupied France during World War II

During World War II, the United States and the United Kingdom mandated the enrichment of refined white flour with niacin

The Gary Sinise Foundation's Soaring Valor program sponsors trips pairing high school students with World War II veterans visiting the National WWII Museum in New Orleans

Police officers in Montreal, Canada, staged a labor strike over wages in October 1969 that resulted in the event known as the Murray-Hill riot

The Gary Sinise Foundation and American Airlines operated 33 charter flight trips transporting World War II veterans to the National WWII Museum

While serving as Attorney General of California, Earl Warren oversaw the internment of more than 100,000 persons of Japanese descent during World War II

Following World War II, the United States provided Western European nations with security guarantees and reconstruction aid through the Marshall Plan

Democracies constituted approximately 8% of the world's sovereign countries at the conclusion of World War II

The post-World War II international architecture established multilateral institutions including the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization

A World War II study testing conscientious objectors found exposure to freezing conditions and cold showers did not increase cold infections

The southern Kuril Islands, claimed by Japan as its Northern Territories, were occupied by Soviet military forces at the end of World War II

Article 9 of the post-World War II Japanese Constitution renounces war and commits Japan never to maintain land, sea, or air forces

German and Austrian rocket engineers who worked for Nazi Germany were brought to the United States after World War II under Operation Paperclip

Prior to World War II, airports in Berlin and London used radio landing systems that emitted audible tones to guide aircraft in darkness and bad weather

During World War II, British forces broadcast deceptive electromagnetic radio signals to distort German radio navigation beams

The German V-2 rocket developed during World War II was the first rocket to touch space