This is the reason for the Mexican-American War. It means that Americans believed they had the right to expand to the Pacific Coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
This was the first war America was involved in as an independent country.
What is The Revolutionary War?
100
General Ulysses S. Grant was the final general that won this war.
What is the American Civil War?
100
In this war America, Great Britain, and France fought Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
What is WWI?
100
This war was started after the 9/11 attacks.
What is the War On Terror?
200
This term occurred during the Spanish American war. Newspapers created the story that said Spain blew up the U.S. Maine when it really didn't. It is a one sided story; it is propaganda.
What is Yellow Journalism?
200
He was the General of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
200
This war ended with the Treaty of Ghent.
What is the War of 1812?
200
In this war the US, Britain, France, and the USSR fought Germany, Italy, Japan, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary.
What is WWII
200
The War in Afghanistan is fighting these extremist groups.
What are Al-Qaeda and the Taliban?
300
The term that describes states leaving a nation.
What is secede?
300
General George Washington and his troops stayed here for the winter of 1777.
What is Valley Forge?
300
This bloody battle was a turning point in the Civil War. The battlefield was turned into a cemetery. Abraham Lincoln gave a speech when it was opened.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
300
This theory was the belief that if one country fell to communism, all the countries around it would become communist too.
What is the Domino Theory?
300
This leader of Iraq is the reason that we engaged them.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
400
This term means countries invade or control other countries for economical reasons.
What is imperialism?
400
Americans signed this on July 4th, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
Theodore Roosevelt faught in Cuba in this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
400
In both of these wars the US fought Communists in Asia.
What the Vietnam War and the Korean War?
400
This leader of Al-Qaeda was killed in 2011.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
500
The countries Germany, Italy, and Japan fought together during World War II.
Who are the Axis powers?
500
This battle is were the British surrendered to the Continental Army.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
500
This war was fought after the Texas Revolution. A common slogan used in America was "Remember the Alamo."
What is the Mexican American War?
500
After this war America aquired a knew territory over seas in Asia.
What is the Philippine-American War?
500
Operation Desert Storm was apart of this war. It involved Iraq invading Kuait over control of oil.