Antares [antares] as a boys' name is pronounced an-TARE-ees, an-TAHR-ees. It is of Greek origin. The name of a giant red star, the brightest in the constellation Scorpio. ASSOCIATED WITH greek, red.
World War I (WWI) was sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 and ended with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Find out what happened in between these momentous events in this WWI timeline. In a Tumultuous 1914, World War I Begins
On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, the act that started World War II. On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, the act that started World War II. The day before, Nazi operatives had posed as Polish military officers to stage an attack on the radio station in the Silesian city of Gleiwitz. Germany used the event as the pretext for its invasion of Poland.