In 1919, Woodrow Wilson stated, “I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.”  

It turned out to be less than a generation.  On this day a hundred years ago, the First World War was well under way.

And only 25 years later, 75 years ago today, this headline, from the Milwaukee Journal of August 20, 1939, shows that Wilson’s prophecy was about to come true.  It turned out that this wasn’t the week.  It would be eleven more days until Germany invaded Poland, marking the start of the Second World War.