Follow this timeline to chart the key events and figures ... Before Pearl Harbor, the US military had been totally unprepared for a world war.

Through more than 300 events across four separate sub-timelines, the site communicates the story of how the World Bank’s mission evolved from a facilitator of post-war reconstruction and development ...

By war’s end the AEF would number more than one million. No one could have foreseen the savagery unleashed by the world’s first industrialized war, where the efficiency of modern killing ...