What's immediately clear is the shocking amount of carnage that took place in the Eastern European "bloodlands" between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. According to the National World War II ...

John and Bonnie Boyd at the Whitney Bank Victory Ball to benefit the National World War II Museum, Fri. June 12, 2015, New Orleans, La. (Photos: Jeff Strout/Supplied by National WW2 Museum).

In honor of the CIA's Cartography Center's 75th anniversary, the agency released a bevy of maps detailing the world since the start of the Cold War.