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WorksheetsScholastic Bowl - Important Battles, Wars, and Military Stuff
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 15mins
Thucydides wrote about this war in which Sparta, helped by Persia and led by Lysander, defeated Athens, who built long walls and was led by Pericles. Ended after the Battle of Aegospotami in 405 BC
Final defeat of Napoleon by British/Dutch/Prussian coalition, last battle of Napoleonic Wars; 7th Coalition led by Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Blucher;
British, Ottomans, and French joined to seize Russian naval bases on Black Sea; squabble between eastern orthodox Christians and Catholics being protected in Middle East; 1853-1856; Tennyson wrote about this war's Light Brigade
Persian War
Last significant battle in the War of the Roses, where Richard III of the House of York was killed and succeeded by Henry Tudor of the House of Lancaster, who was helped by the Stanley Family; 1485
Started by the death of Charles II of Spain, which caused struggle over the throne from 1701-1714; belligerents include Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, Dutch Republic, Prussia, France, and Portugal; ended by treaty of Utrecht
Spanish Civil War
War of the Roses
Napoleonic Wars
Battles from this war include Antietam (fought in Maryland), Bull Run (first battle of this war), and Gettysburg (ended Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania)
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Ancient struggle between Rome and Carthage for the Mediterranean; included Battles of Ilipa, The Trebia, Cape Ecnomus; featured generals Hannibal and Scipio Africanus
Trojan War
Great War for Empire
Ancient war caused by the abduction of Helen of Troy by Paris; was written to contain mythological figures like Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, and Agamemnon
What was the decisive battle of the American Revolution, where the Americans and French surrounded the British and General Cornwallis surrendered?
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U.S. General who served in both world wars, the Philippine-American war, and the Korean War, and served as governor of the Ryukyu Islands; both him and his father received the Medal of Honor; presided over demilitarization and writing of constitution of Japan
MacArthur
Patton
Powell
Grant
War between England and France over territorial rights and the succession of the french throne; started with Edward III's invasion of Flanders; includes English victory at Agincourt led by Edward V, and decisive French victory at Castillon that ended this war
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Started after explosion of USS Maine; resulted in US ownership of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines; US teamed up with Cuban and Filipino revolutionaries; happened under McKinley Administration
Mexican-American War
Philippine-American War
Battle between Duchy of Normandy, led by William, and King Harold, who died and thus let the Norman Conquest of England begin
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Major battle of American Civil War wherein Stonewall Jackson was killed by his own men and Joseph Hooker's Union forces lost; allowed Lee to move north into Maryland and Pennsylvania and thus was called his "perfect battle"
Global conflict between Britain (allied with Prussia) and France (allied with Spain) that ran concurrently with the French and Indian War; started when Frederick the Great invaded Saxony, and ended with a British victory in Europe, India, and America that solidified their rule under George III
American Revolution
One of the bloodiest battles in European history, which started as a civil war in the Holy Roman Empire under the Catholic Habsburgs and evolved until they faced Denmark, Sweden, France, and protestant Germans; had events like the Defenestration of Prague and the Battle of Lutzen
Hundred Years War
Thirty Years War
Seven Years War
Eleven Years War
Began with a US-led invasion and overthrow of Saddam Hussein under the Bush Administration; toppled the Ba'ath Party; US withdrawal was followed by a similarly named war between Iraq and the Islamic State; may have started due to 9/11 for some unjustified reason
War in Iraq
Name this 33rd president and democrat who served immediately after FDR and before Eisenhower, a former colonel in World War I who authorized the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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Who was not president during one of the world wars?
Woodrow Wilson
Harry Truman
Eisenhower
FDR
Name this battle, fought between Greece and Persia under King Xerxes; Greece was outnumbered but convinced by their general Themistocles to finish a decisive battle and drive Xerxes to Asia, which succeeded; the Persians were then defeated under Mardonius (you most likely at least know the name)
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War between a US-led coalition and Hussein-led Iraq, which ended in the liberation of Kuwait and the expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait; divided into two operations where forces and Saudi Arabian defenses were first built up, and then a LOT of aerial raids were carried out under Chuck Horner
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Culmination of the first Persian invasion of Greece, led by Datis and Artaphernes under King Darius I in 490 BCE; smaller Athenian and Plataean army inflicted a crushing defeat on Persia and marked turning point in Greco-Persian Wars; names the legend of the Greek messenger Pheidippides, who ran 26 miles to announce Greek victory
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