Ancient Warfare
World War I
Frontier Wars
Iraq War
Modern Conflicts
100

This ancient war featured a wooden horse used by the Greeks to enter a fortified city.

Trojan War

100

The assassination of this archduke sparked World War I.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

100

These conflicts were fought between European settlers and this group of people.

Aboriginal Australians

100

The Iraq War began in this year.

2003

100

This country invaded Ukraine in 2022, sparking a major international crisis.

Russia

200

The conflict between Athens and Sparta is known as this war.

Peloponnessian War

200

Soldiers on the Western Front primarily fought in these.

Trenches

200

Pemulwuy led resistance efforts near this modern-day Australian city.

Sydney

200

The world leader who led the push to invade Iraq.

George W. Bush

200

The ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas escalated significantly in this month and year.

October 2023

300

This Carthaginian general famously crossed the Alps with elephants during the Second Punic War.

Hannibal

300

This 1915 campaign aimed to open a sea route to Russia and resulted in a costly defeat for the Allies.

Gallipoli

300

The Black War was a period of intense conflict between settlers and Aboriginal people on this island.

Tasmania

300

The U.S. cited the presence of these as the main reason for invading Iraq.

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)

300

This militant group took control of Afghanistan in 2021 after the U.S. withdrawal.

Taliban
400

This battle in 331 BCE saw Alexander the Great defeat the Persian king Darius III and marked the fall of the Achaemenid Empire.

Battle of Gaugamela

400

This British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915.

Lusitania

400

This form of resistance included destroying crops and livestock, ambushing settlers, and using the landscape to strategic advantage.

Guerilla warfare

400

This Iraqi leader was captured by U.S. forces in December 2003.

Saddam Hussein

400

The conflict in Yemen is often described as a proxy war between these two regional powers.

Saudia Arabia and Iran

500

This Assyrian king besieged and sacked the Judean city of Lachish in 701 BCE.

Sennacherib

500

The Zimmermann Telegram attempted to persuade this country to join the war against the U.S.

Mexico

500

During the frontier wars, this single thing killed more aboriginal people than all other things combined.

Smallpox

500

This insurgent group rose to power in the power vacuum after the Iraq War.

ISIS (Islamic State)

500

The Rohingya crisis involves ethnic cleansing and mass displacement of a Muslim minority group from this country.

Myanmar

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