This Military Times special report details key World War I battles, moments in history and the war's legacy.
Nov. 11, 1918: Wasted Lives on Armistice DayAn essay from HistoryNet on the execution of the World War I armistice ... and how thousands on both sides may have died needlessly.
Over there, but still here: The WWI innovations that live onThursday marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, and some of the innovations that were developed or came into wide use during the conflict are still with us today.
100 years ago, war declaration started The American CenturyCarpenter Guy Ford liked to watch fish play in the currents around his ship as it sailed for Europe to offload untested troops for a war as horrendous as it was defining for the century to come.
Centennial of US entrance into WWI lures visitors to museum Crossing a glass walkway that spans a field of 9,000 poppies, visitors to the official U.S. memorial to World War I are transported to a time when tanks and air warfare were new and the hopeful flowers sprang up on the barren, trench-dotted battlefields where hundreds of thousands of soldiers died.
As the US entered World War I, American soldiers depended on foreign weapons technologyOn April 6, 1917, the United States declared war against Germany and entered World War I. Since August 1914, the war between the Central and Entente Powers had devolved into a bloody stalemate, particularly on the Western Front. That was where the U.S. would enter the engagement.