Just two weeks after the Armistice, Kansas City leaders meet to discuss the need for the creation of a lasting monument to the men and women who had served in the War, and most notably to those who...

An Armistice is declared to end the fighting in World War I.

October 1914: Responding to need, the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) is created by Herbert Hoover, who is at the time a mining engineer and consultant living in London. The CRB distributes...

The Eighteenth Amendment outlaws the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic liquors. The law is sent to the states for ratification.

Church bells ring in London for the first time since the start of the war to celebrate the victory. Prime Minister Lloyd George had tasked General Allenby with capturing Jerusalem by Christmas.

A French ship carrying a full cargo of munitions explodes when it collides with a Belgian relief ship. Over 2,000 people are killed and 9,000 injured.

The Germans are taken by surprise since no artillery barrage precedes the attack. The tanks penetrate the lines by more than 10,000 yards. Ten days later, the Germans counterattack, regaining most...

Less than two months after being declared a “socialist republic”, Lenin’s forces succeed in overthrowing the Kerensky government. The Bolsheviks demand a “just and immediate...

Named for its author Lord Balfour, the declaration expresses the British government’s support of the establishment of “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.

Soldiers of the First Division enter combat on the Western Front under French command. It is less than two weeks later, on Nov. 1, when First American soldiers, members of the 1st Division, are...