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The National World War I Memorial is a national memorial commemorating the service rendered by members of the United States Armed Forces in World War I.The 2015 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the World War I Centennial Commission to build the memorial in Pershing Park, located at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.
War memorial in East Ilsley, restored in 2008, and featuring combined original list of World War I and later World War II names [334] Elsewhere, changes in post-war politics impacted considerably on the memorials. in Belgium, the Flemish IJzertoren tower had become associated with Fascism during the Second World War and was blown up in 1946 by ...
In 2004, Congress named it the nation's official World War I museum, and construction started on a new 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m 2) expansion and the Edward Jones Research Center underneath the original memorial, which was completed in 2006. The Liberty Memorial was designated a National Historic Landmark on September 20, 2006.
Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial; Winged Victory (Lewis) World War I Memorial (Atlantic City, New Jersey) World War I Memorial (Berwick, Pennsylvania) World War I Memorial (Boston) World War I Memorial (East Providence, Rhode Island) World War I Memorial (Norfolk, Connecticut) World War I Memorial (Salem, Oregon)
Mojave Memorial Cross; National World War I Memorial (Washington, D.C.) National World War I Museum and Memorial; Navy – Merchant Marine Memorial; Newton City Hall and War Memorial; Over the Top to Victory; Paragould War Memorial; Peace Cross; Rosedale World War I Memorial Arch; Sierra Madre Memorial Park; Soldiers and McKinley Memorial Parkways
Media in category "World War I artists" The following 60 files are in this category, out of 60 total. A portrait-caricature of an Austro-Hungarian soldier.WWI postcard art.Wittig collection.item 42.obverse.scan.jpg 6,261 × 8,137; 6.62 MB
District of Columbia War Memorial, on the National Mall; National World War I Memorial (Washington, D.C.), in Pershing Park; World War I Memorial (Norfolk, Connecticut) World War I Memorial (Boston), Massachusetts; National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri; World War I Memorial (Atlantic City, New Jersey)
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."