United State War History

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United States' war history:

Here some war history of USA

*Colonial Wars (1607-1776)*

1. King William's War (1688-1697)

2. Queen Anne's War (1702-1713)

3. King George's War (1744-1748)

4. French and Indian War (1754-1763)

*American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)*

1. Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)

2. Declaration of Independence (1776)

3. Battle of Saratoga (1777)

4. Battle of Yorktown (1781)


*War of 1812 (1812-1815)*


1. Battle of Lake Erie (1813)

2. Battle of the Thames (1813)

3. Burning of Washington, D.C. (1814)

4. Battle of New Orleans (1815)


*Mexican-American War (1846-1848)*


1. Battle of Palo Alto (1846)

2. Battle of Monterrey (1846)

3. Battle of Buena Vista (1847)

4. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)


*American Civil War (1861-1865)*


1. Battle of Fort Sumter (1861)

2. Battle of Bull Run (1861)

3. Battle of Antietam (1862)

4. Battle of Gettysburg (1863)

5. Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

6. Surrender at Appomattox (1865)


*Spanish-American War (1898)*


1. Battle of Manila Bay (1898)

2. Battle of San Juan Hill (1898)

3. Treaty of Paris (1898)


*World War I (1917-1918)*


1. Entry into war (1917)

2. Battle of Belleau Wood (1918)

3. Battle of the Argonne Forest (1918)

4. Armistice (1918)


*World War II (1941-1945)*


1. Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)

2. Battle of Midway (1942)

3. Battle of Normandy (1944)

4. Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)

5. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)

6. Japanese surrender (1945)


*Korean War (1950-1953)*


1. Invasion of South Korea (1950)

2. Battle of Inchon (1950)

3. Battle of Chosin Reservoir (1950)

4. Armistice (1953)


*Vietnam War (1955-1975)*


1. Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964)

2. Battle of Ia Drang (1965)

3. Tet Offensive (1968)

4. Fall of Saigon (1975)


*Gulf War (1990-1991)*


1. Invasion of Kuwait (1990)

2. Operation Desert Storm (1991)

3. Liberation of Kuwait (1991)


*War in Afghanistan (2001-present)*


1. Invasion of Afghanistan (2001)

2. Battle of Tora Bora (2001)

3. Insurgency and counterinsurgency (2002-present)


*Iraq War (2003-2011)*


1. Invasion of Iraq (2003)

2. Battle of Baghdad (2003)

3. Insurgency and counterinsurgency (2004-2011)


*War on Terror (2001-present)*


1. Global War on Terror (2001)

2. Operations in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia


*Key Figures:*


1. George Washington

2. Abraham Lincoln

3. Robert E. Lee

4. Douglas MacArthur

5. Dwight D. Eisenhower

6. John F. Kennedy

7. Lyndon B. Johnson

8. Richard Nixon

9. George S. Patton

10. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.


*Important Documents:*


1. Declaration of Independence (1776)

2. Constitution of the United States (1787)

3. Treaty of Paris (1783)

4. Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

5. Treaty of Versailles (1919)

6. Japanese Instrument of Surrender (1945)


*Museums and Memorials:*


1. National Archives (Washington, D.C.)

2. Smithsonian National Museum of American History (Washington, D.C.)

3. National World War II Museum (New Orleans)

4. Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C.)

5. Arlington National Cemetery (Virginia)

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