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== Major wars timeline ==
== Wars timeline ==
* wars are the effect or cause of change
* wars are the effect or cause of change
* knowing wars and their dates and geography provides context and points of comparison
* knowing wars and their dates and geography provides context and points of comparison


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| Major Wars  
| '''Major Wars'''
* 1775-81: American Revolution *
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* 1789-95: French Revolution **
* French-Indian War, 1754-1768:  
* 1812-15: War of 1812
* American Revolution, 1764-1783
* 1846-48: Mexican-American War
* American Revolutionary War, 1775-1781
* 1861-65: U.S. Civil War
* War of 1812, 1812-1815
* 1898: Spanish-American War
* Mexican-American War, 1846-1848
* 1914-18: WWI (U.S. 1917-1918)
* Civil War, 1861-1865
* 1939-45: WWII (U.S. 1941-1945)
* Spanish-American War, 1898
* 1959-75: Vietnam War (U.S. ground war: 1965-72)
* Philipine Insurgeny, 1899-1902
* 2002-2021: Afghanistan/ War on Terror
* World War I (U.S.), 1917-1918
* 2003-11: Iraq War (Iraqi Insurgency: 2003-2006)
* Wolrd War II (U.S.) 1941-1945
|| Other wars to know:
* Korean War, 1950-1953
* 1803-1815: Napoleonic Wars
* Vietman War, 1959-1975
* 1904-1905: Russo-Japanese War
* Vietnam, U.S. ground war: 1965-1972
* 1910-1920: Mexican Revolution
* Gulf War, 1990-1991
* 1917: Russian Revolution
* War on Terror, 2001-2021
* 1931-32: Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
* Afghanistan War, 2001-2021
* 1950-53: Korean War
* Iraq War, 2003-2011
* 1990-91: Gulf War
* Iraqi Insurgency, 2003-2006
|| '''Minor Wars'''<nowiki>Quasi-War, 1798-1800|series of naval battles of the East coast and in the Caribbean, primarily over trade and other diplomatic tensions betwen England and France, and the U.S. and both</nowiki>
'''Colonial Wars'''
 
* Anglow-Powhatan Wars (1610-1614, 1622-1632, 1644-1646|series of conflicts, raids, hostage-taking, and reprisal attacks between English settlers, starting at Jamestown, and Powhattan tribes and their leadership; the Powhattan goal was to drive the English out of Virginia entirely, the Treaty of 1846 ended hostilities and defined the extent of English possessions from the coast upwards the navigable portions of the York and othe rivers}}<nowiki></ul></nowiki></il>
* Pequot War (1634-1638)
* King Philip's War, 1675-1678
* King William's War, 1689-1897
* Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713
* Yamasee War, 1715-1717|in the Carolinas
 
'''British Frontier / Indian Wars'''
 
* Beaver Wars, 1609-1701
* Chickawaw Wars, 1721-1763
* Pontiac's War, 1763-1766
* Lord Dunmore's War, 1774
 
'''Slave Revolts'''
 
* New York Slave Revolt of 1712
* Stono Rebellion, 1739|South Carolina, largest slave rebellion with 25 English and 35-50 slaves killed
 
* Nat Turner;s Rebellion
 
'''US Fronteir/ Indian Wars'''
 
* Bacon's Rebellion
* Whiskey Rebellion, 1791-1794
* Fries's Rebellion, 1799-1800|Tax revolt by Pennyslvania Dutch farmers
 
'''20th Century Wars'''
 
* Panama Revolution
* White Russian War, 1917
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|- style="vertical-align:top;"
|<nowiki>*</nowiki>'''American Revolution timeline:'''
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  - 1765-1775: Colonial agitation against British rule & laws
  - 1774: fist Continental Congress & other colonial organization in opposition of British rule
||Overseas Wars to know
  - 1775-76: Thomas Paine's "Common Sense", Declaration of Indepenndence
 
  - 1775-1781: War
* Thirty Years War,1618-1648
  - 1783: Treaty of Paris formally ends War
* Anglo-Spanish War, 1625-1630
||<nowiki>**</nowiki>'''French Revolution timeline:'''
* English Civil War, 1642-1644
- 1789-91: Estates General
* Anglo-Dutch War, 1652-1654
- 1792-93: Overthrow and execution of King Louis XV
* Anglo-Spanish Wars, 1654-1660, 1665-1667
- 1793-94: Jacobin Rule and Reign of Terror
* Pueblo Revolt, 1680
- 1795-1799: The Directory
* French Revolution, 1789-1795
- 1799: Napoleon seizes power
* Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804|series of wars of that ended in Haitian independence from France; the impact upon the U.S. was that without control of Haiti, New Orleans became less important to France, which also needed the revenue from the Louisiana Purchase}}<nowiki></ul></nowiki></il>
* Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815
*
* Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
* Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
* Russian Revolution, 1917
* World War I, 1914-1918
* Japanese Invasion of Manchuria, 1931-32:  
* World War II, 1939-1945
 
*Suez Crisis, 1957 <<
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