Major Wars (Battles and Treaties)

Question 1

The American Revolution

-First Battles

Answer 1

Lexington and Concord (1775)

Question 2

The American Revolution

-Major Battles

Answer 2

Bunker Hill (1775)
Fort Ticonderoga (1775)
Saratoga (1777)
Valley Forge (1777)

Question 3

The American Revolution

-Continental Congress

Answer 3

Federal legislature of 13 colonies under the Articles of Confederation (1774, 1775)

Question 4

The American Revolution

-Constitution

Answer 4

replaced the Articles of confederation in 1789

Question 5

American Civil War

-Start of war

Answer 5

Harper’s Ferry (1859)

Question 6

American Civil War

-First battles

Answer 6

Fort Sumner (1861)
Bull Run (1861)
Confederate victories

Question 7

American Civil War

-Major battles

Answer 7

Anietam 1862
Fredericksburg 1862
Gettysburg 1863
Shiloh 1862
Sherman's March to the Sea 1864
Vicksburg 1863

Question 8

American Civil War

-End of war

Answer 8

Surrender of General Lee to General Grant at Appomatox Court House 1865

Question 9

French Revolution

-Start of War

Answer 9

Storming of the Bastille (1789)

Question 10

French Revolution

-Important events/documents

Answer 10

Declaration of the rights of Man and Citizen (preamble to the Constitution) 1791
Reign of Terror ended
Napolean I becomes consul from coup d-‘etat.

Question 11

French Revolution

-End of war

Answer 11

Treaty of Amiens, France 1802

Question 12

Russian Civil War

-Conflicting sides

Answer 12

Bolsheviks (majority) vs Mensheviks (minority)

Question 13

Russian Civil War

-Leaders of opposing sides

Answer 13

Lenin and Trotsky (Reds)
vs.
Kerensky and Plekanov (Whites)

Question 14

World War I

-Start of war

Answer 14

Assassinations of Archduke Fernidad 1914

Sinking of Lusitania 1915 (British Ship with American Passengers) by Germans.

Question 15

World War I

-Major Battles

Answer 15

Ypres 1917
Marne 1914
Verdun 1916
Somme 1916

(Trench warfare, use of poison gas)

Question 16

World War I

-end of war

Answer 16

Treaty of Versailles 1918
attempt to divide nations on basis of national self-determination; establishment of the League of Nations; strict penalties imposed against Germany.

Question 17

World War II

-major events

Answer 17

Munich Pact 1938 - policy of appeasement, associated with British Prime Minister Chamberlain

Question 18

World War II

-Start of War

Answer 18

blitzkrieg over Poland 1939

sinking of Arizona and other ships at Pearl Harbor

Question 19

World War II

-Major Battles

Answer 19

Dunkirk 1940
Ardennes 1944
Alamein (North Africa) 1942
Stalingrad 1942-1943

Question 20

World War II

-characteristics

Answer 20

Tank warfare
blitzkrieg
use of massive bombing by air force
development of atomic weapons

Question 21

World War II

-End of war

Answer 21

Japan surrenders unconditionally at Potsdam Conference

Question 22

Ghent, Belgium

Answer 22

End of war 1812

Question 23

Congress of Vienna

Answer 23

End of Napoleonic Wars

Question 24

Yalta Conference

Answer 24

Meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin during World War II

Question 25

Potsdam German Conference

Answer 25

meeting of Truman, Churchill (replaced by Atlee) and Stalin during WWII

Question 26

Geneva Convention

Answer 26

Outlined appropriate conduct during war 1949

Question 27

Korea Panmunjon

Answer 27

End of the Korean war 1953

Question 28

Reykjavik Conference

Answer 28

Reagan-Gorbachev Summit Meeting 1986

Question 29

Kyoto Protocol

Answer 29

International Framework on climate change 1997