Major Wars (Battles and Treaties) Flashcards
The American Revolution
-First Battles
Lexington and Concord (1775)
The American Revolution
-Major Battles
Bunker Hill (1775) Fort Ticonderoga (1775) Saratoga (1777) Valley Forge (1777)
The American Revolution
-Continental Congress
Federal legislature of 13 colonies under the Articles of Confederation (1774, 1775)
The American Revolution
-Constitution
replaced the Articles of confederation in 1789
American Civil War
-Start of war
Harper’s Ferry (1859)
American Civil War
-First battles
Fort Sumner (1861) Bull Run (1861) Confederate victories
American Civil War
-Major battles
Anietam 1862 Fredericksburg 1862 Gettysburg 1863 Shiloh 1862 Sherman's March to the Sea 1864 Vicksburg 1863
American Civil War
-End of war
Surrender of General Lee to General Grant at Appomatox Court House 1865
French Revolution
-Start of War
Storming of the Bastille (1789)
French Revolution
-Important events/documents
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.
French Revolution
-End of war
Treaty of Amiens, France 1802
Russian Civil War
-Conflicting sides
Bolsheviks (majority) vs Mensheviks (minority)
Russian Civil War
-Leaders of opposing sides
Lenin and Trotsky (Reds)
vs.
Kerensky and Plekanov (Whites)
World War I
-Start of war
Assassinations of Archduke Fernidad 1914
Sinking of Lusitania 1915 (British Ship with American Passengers) by Germans.
World War I
-Major Battles
Ypres 1917
Marne 1914
Verdun 1916
Somme 1916
(Trench warfare, use of poison gas)
World War I
-end of war
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.
World War II
-major events
Munich Pact 1938 - policy of appeasement, associated with British Prime Minister Chamberlain
World War II
-Start of War
blitzkrieg over Poland 1939
sinking of Arizona and other ships at Pearl Harbor
World War II
-Major Battles
Dunkirk 1940
Ardennes 1944
Alamein (North Africa) 1942
Stalingrad 1942-1943
World War II
-characteristics
Tank warfare
blitzkrieg
use of massive bombing by air force
development of atomic weapons
World War II
-End of war
Japan surrenders unconditionally at Potsdam Conference
Ghent, Belgium
End of war 1812
Congress of Vienna
End of Napoleonic Wars
Yalta Conference
Meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin during World War II
