The competition results in the selected design by architect H. Van Buren Magonigle.

The Kansas City Chapter of the American Institute of Architects holds a national architectural competition to choose a design for the Memorial.

A community-based fundraising drive, organized and led by the Liberty Memorial Association, raises more than $2.5 million in just ten days. This staggering accomplishment for the time reflected the...

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...