Ahsge Ss Review Wars

Front 1

The British and American colonists defeated _______________ in the French and Indian War (1754-1763).

Back 1

French and Indians

Front 2

first battle of the Revolutionary War was at ____

Back 2

Lexington and Concord (The shot heard round the world).

If they split Lexington and Concord as answer choices, Lexington is first.

Front 3

the turning point in the Revolutionary War after the decisive colonial victory convinced the French to come to help the U.S.

Back 3

Battle of Saratoga

Front 4

(near Philadelphia) was where Washington and his men spent a cold winter. Washington’s men were trained there by a Prussian- Baron Von Steuben

Back 4

Valley Forge

Front 5

was the final battle of the Revolutionary War where Cornwallis surrendered his British forces to Washington

Back 5

Yorktown

Front 6

War of 1812 – major cause was ________________________ – taking American sailors off our ships and making them serve in the British Navy.

Back 6

impressment

Front 7

Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians in this battle in Alabama during the War of 1812.

Back 7

Horsheshoe Bend

Front 8

. Battle of Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, this is where ____________________ wrote “The Star Spangled Banner.”

Back 8

Francis Scott Key

(remember music is written in KEYS)

Front 9

. Battle of ______________ – Andrew Jackson led a defeat of the British. They fought 2 weeks after the war was over.

Back 9

New Orleans

Front 10

Sam Houston led the ________________ (Lone Star State) movement for independence from Mexico.

Back 10

Texas

Front 11

The French and Indian War ended with the Treaty of Paris of 1763 and gave the British clear right to all land east of the __________.

Back 11

Mississippi River

Front 12

The French and Indian War was costly for the British Empire so they mposed heavy _____________ on the colonies to pay for the war.

Back 12

taxes

Front 13

During the ____________________War, we acquired Texas, California, Utah, Nevada, etc..

Back 13

Mexican War (1846-48)

Front 14

South Carolina was the first state to leave upon the election of _____________________________ in 1860.

Back 14

Abraham Lincoln as president

(He said he was against the EXPANSION of slavery which meant to the South that he was going to get rid of it)

Front 15

_______________________ was the first battle of the Civil War and a victory for the south. (Also called Manassas.)

Back 15

Bull Run or 1st battle of Bull Run

Front 16

Northern plan to win the war : (1.) Capture Richmond. (2.) Control the Mississippi River. (They did this by capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi in July 1863.) (3.) Blockade southern ports, the South had virtually no Navy.

Back 16

Anaconda Plan

Front 17

Antietam, Maryland was the bloodiest one day battle in the history of the United States. After this battle that Lincoln issued the _____(waiting for a Union victory).

Back 17

Emancipation Proclamation

Front 18

________________________ (Pennsylvania) was the turning point in the Civil War like Saratoga in the Revolutionary War. The South will never invade the north again.

Back 18

Gettysburg

Front 19

Battle of the Little Bighorn- George Armstrong ____________and ALL his men were killed by Sioux Indians. Also known as Custer’s Last Stand.

Back 19

Custer

Front 20

In South Dakota , it was the final Indian battle after Sioux performed the Ghost Dance. Massacre of Sioux/Sitting Bull killed.

Back 20

Wounded Knee

Front 21

Causes of the 1898 war of the U.S. with Spain over Cuba- the explosion of the ___________ and yellow journalism

Back 21

Maine or U.S.S. Maine

Front 22

Theodore Roosevelt led the charge of the _______________________ at the battle at San Juan Hill- the major land battle in the Spanish-American War.

Back 22

Rough Riders ( a volunteer cavalry unit)

Front 23

Long term causes of World War I: (MAIN)
(1.)
(2.)
(3.)
(4.)

Back 23

Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism

Front 24

Assassination of Archduke Francis _________________ (the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary) started World War I

Back 24

Ferdinand

Front 25

He was the Serbian nationalist who killed Archduke Ferdinand and provided the immediate spark that started the Great War (WWI)

Back 25

Gavrilo Princip

Front 26

World War I items:
(1.) _________ warfare
(2.) _______________ land
(3.) new weapons - machine guns, airplanes and tanks, and poison gas.

Back 26

1. trench
2. No Man's

Front 27

Pilots called __________ fought dogfights in the air

Back 27

aces (if you had shot down 5 or more planes)

Front 28

One of the causes of U.S. entry into WWI was the sinking of the __________________ (128 Americans died) May 7, 1915

Back 28

Lusitania (a British passenger ship)

Front 29

Germany's attempted bribe of Mexico into entering the war against the U.S. in World War I. Offered them all the territory back that they lost to the U.S. in the Mexican War when they won World War I.

Back 29

Zimmerman Note

Front 30

German submarines more commonly known as ____ started sinking U.S. ships - even unarmed merchant ships...was another cause for the U.S. to enter WWI.

Back 30

u-boats

Front 31

Another reason the U.S. decided to join the Allies was that the new government in ____ appeared to be democracy so the war could be fought to, in Woodrow Wilson's words, to "make the world safe for democracy"

Back 31

Russia

Front 32

Another reason the U.S. decided to enter WWI was that we had made _____ to Allies/sold things on credit to Allies (and our money would never be repaid if the Allies lost)

Back 32

loans

Front 33

At the end of WWI, ________had to sign the war guilt clause and take all the blame for WWI in the Treaty of Versailles.

Back 33

Germany

Front 34

Germany, in the Treaty of Versailles, also had to pay between $32-33 billion in war ________________

Back 34

reparations

Front 35

November 11,1918 – ________ ended with an armistice/an agreement to stop fighting

Back 35

World War I

Front 36

Conference where Britain and France gave up the Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia) in return for Hitler’s promise of peace (appeased him)

Back 36

Munich

Front 37

U.S. tried to remain _______________at the beginning of both World Wars.

Back 37

neutral

Front 38

Victory for U.S.- turning point in the war in the Pacific.

Back 38

MIdway

Front 39

Battle in the Soviet Union where they stopped the German invasion. Turning point on Eastern Front. Germans will begin their retreat back to Germany.

Back 39

Battle of Stalingrad (especially cold and brutal Russia winter helped the Soviets regroup and defeat the Germans)

Front 40

Operation ___________________ – Code name for D Day invasion of Normandy on the coast of France – June 6, 1944.

Back 40

Overlord

We invaded France- our ally- because they had been taken over by the Germans. France actually surrendered so that their beautiful capital of Paris would be saved.

Front 41

The D-day invasion was led by American general _____________________- the Supreme Allied Commander

Back 41

Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower

Front 42

____________, who had been president during the Great Depression and almost all of WWII died and Harry Truman..

Back 42

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Front 43

Troops were generally kept separated or ________________ through all American wars until AFTER WWII.

Back 43

segregated

Front 44

He committed suicide just before his country's surrender, effectively ended WWII in Europe.

Back 44

Adolf Hitler, the German leader

Front 45

Montgomery, Alabama is called the birthplace or "cradle" of the Confederacy because

Back 45

it was organized here (and its first capital was here but was later moved to Richmond, Virginia in the latter part of the war. It was not the capital for the whole war.)