Photo Caption: The National WWII Museum officials and friends gather to break ground on the Floyd Education and Collections Pavilion on A...

A century ago, leaders of the victorious powers in the First World War tried to convert battlefield success into a lasting peace.

Richard B. Frank, author of Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War Volume 1: 1937-1942, discusses the opening moves of the war in Asia, and why it is important today.

More than 40,000 students across the country participated in the Museum's live interactive Electronic Field Trip.  

From our 21st-century point of view, it is hard to imagine World War II without the United States as a major participant. Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, however, Americans were seriously divided over what the role of the United States in the war should be, or if it should even have a role at all. Even as the war consumed large portions of Europe and Asia in the late 1930s and early 1940s, there was no clear consensus on how the United States should respond.