| A | B |
|---|
| French and Indian War | war fought over control of Ohio Valley for trade with the Indians |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | British won the Fr. and Indian War with this treaty |
| no taxation without representation | rallying cry of the colonists who were upset about England's tariff policies |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | battle during the Am. Revolution |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | acknowledged indpendence of the 13 colonies; ended the Am. Revolution |
| Battle of Lexington and Concord | first battle of the American Revolution |
| War of 1812 | war fought over British impressment of American soldiers |
| Francis Scott Key | wrote the "Star Spangled Banner" |
| Treaty of Ghent | Treaty that ended the War of 1812 |
| Mexican American War | war fought for territorial exansion |
| Mexican Cession | land US received as a result of the Mex.-Am War |
| Battle of the Alamo | famous battle for Texas Independence; all of the defenders died; led to later victory for Texans |
| Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | ended Mexican American War |
| civil war | also called the "War between the States" |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Fort Sumter | fist shots were fired that began the Civil War |
| Battle of the Ironclads | USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (Merimac) |
| nickname of Sp. American War | "splendid little war" |
| Spanish American war | War fought to liberate Cuba, a Spanish colony from a repressive Sp. govt. |
| USS Maine | ship that blew up and helped to bring the US in the Spanish American War |
| Treaty of Paris 1898 | treaty that ended the Spanish American War |
| World War I | called the "Great War" |
| Treaty of Versailles 1919 | ended WWI; punished Germany with reparations and disarmament |
| World War II | war that began with Hitler's invasion of Poland |
| Pearl Harbor | event that brought the US into World War II |
| Zimmerman Note | overt act by Germany that brought the US into WWI |
| Cold War | hostility between the US and its allies and the Soviet Union and its satelites in the decades after WWII |
| Korean War | war between South Korea and Un forces AGAINST North Korea and eventually China |
| 38th parallel | designate the dividing line between North and South Korea |
| Douglas Mac Arthur | led UN forces in the Korean war until replaced toward the end of the war |
| John Pershing | US commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) |
| Vietnam War | longest American War |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | authorized Pres. Johnson to use military force with out a formal declaration of war |
| VE Day | Day surrounding Germany's unconditional surrender during WWIi |
| VJ Day | surrender of Japan at the end of WWII |
| Yalta Conference | conference toward the end of WWII |
| D-Day | largest amphibious invasion in history; "Operation Overlord" |
