Major Wars

First battle-Lexington and Concord(1775)

Major battles
-Bunker Hill(1775)
-Fort Ticonderoga(1775)
-Saratoga(1777)
-Valley Forge(1777)

Delaration of Independence-declared that colonies were free from England, 1776

Contential Congress
-federal legislature of the 13 colonies under the Articles of Confederation(1774-1775)

Constitution
-replaced Articles of Conferderation in 1789

End of war
-surrender of British General Cornwallis to George Washington at Yorktown(1781)
-treaty recognized the United States as a seperate nation signed n Paris(1782)

start of war- Harper's Ferry (1859)

first battle-Fort Sumter(1861) and Bull Run(1861)

Major battles
-Antietam(1862)
-Fredericksburg(1862)
-Gettsbury(1863)
-Shiloh(1862)
- Sherman's March to the Sea(1864)
-Vicksburg(1863)-great victory for Grant

End of war-surrender of General Lee to General Grant at Appomatox(1865)

Start of war-storming of the Bastille(1789)

-Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
-Reign of Terror, which ended 9 Thermidor with the execution of Robespierre
-coup d'atat of 18 Brumaire whereby Napoleon I becomes consul

End of war- treaty of Amiens, France(1802)

Start of War
-assassiatioin of Archduke Ferdinand(1941)
-sinking of Luistania by the Germans led to the U.S entry into the war( 1915)

Major battles
-Ypres(1917)
-Marne(1914)
-Verdun(1916)
-Somme(1916)

Offensive Characteristics
-trench welfare
-use of poison gas

End of War
-Treaty of Versailles(1918); attempt to divide nations on basis of national self-determination; establishment of the League of Nations

Major Events
-Munich Pact(1938), policy of appeasment, associated withe British Prime Minister Chamberlain

Start of War
-blitzkrieg over Poand(1939)
-sinking of Arizona and other ships at Pearl Harbor attack in Honolulu led to US declaration of war against Germany and Japan(1941)

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

Characteristics
-tank warfare
-blitzkrieg
-use of massive bombing by air force
-development of atomic weapons

End of War
-Japan surrenders unconditionally to Patsdam Conference(1945)

Conflicting sides
-Bolsheviks(majority) vs. Mensheviks(minority)

leater of opposing sides
-Lenin and Trotsky(reds) vs. Kerensky and Plekanov(whites)

Meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin during WWII(1945)

End of Napoleonic Wars(1814-1815)

Meeting of Truman, Churchill, and Stalin during WWII

Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting(1986)

End of Korean War

End of War of 1812