In nineteen fourteen, Europe exploded into the First World War.

VOA: special.2010.10.07

Suny explains that during the First World War, the Ottoman Empire sided with Germany and was thus at war with Russia and most of Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

During World War Two, Dave Brubeck,who is white, formed one of the first racially mixed bands in the Army.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

She was the first woman to be permitted to work in combat areas during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

So they and the Liberal Democrats have formed Britain's first coalition government since World War Two.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

World War Two ended. Enrico Fermi had been the first to use a neutron to produce the radioactive change of one element to another.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

The garden will be the first on the White House lawn since World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund expect the world economy to shrink this year for the first time since World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Roosevelt and Churchill first met when they were lower-level officials during World War One.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

(Choral Music) At London's Westminster Abbey, the Queen,Prime Minister and military leaders attended a remembrance service, the first one without a British World War I veteran in attendance.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Born to Puerto Rican parents, who moved to New York during World War II, Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court and the third woman.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

With the world's major economies forecast to shrink this year for the first time since World War Two, Britain's Financial Times newspaper reports the G20 participants will likely resolve to strive for economic growth in 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

Strauss-Kahn said the recent Group of 20 meeting in London, which he attended, was exceptionally successful, mainly because leaders committed themselves to taking all actions necessary to pull the global economy out of its first synchronized, post-World War II downturn.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16