WARS AND BATTLES

DIRECTIONS: Identify either the war the item is related to or the name of the battle described.

1. _______________________ Remember the Maine

2. _______________________ Remember the Alamo

3. _______________________ Zimmerman Telegram

4. _______________________ Charge up San Juan Hill

5. _______________________ Turning Point of the American Revolution

6. _______________________ Treaty of Ghent

7. _______________________ Turning Point of World War II in Europe

8. _______________________ Last Battle of the American Revolution

9. _______________________ First “battle” of the Civil War

10. ______________________ Treaty of Paris (3)

11. ______________________ Turning Point of the Civil War

12. ______________________ Turning Point of World War I

13. ______________________ Turning Point of World War II in the Pacific

14. ______________________ First Battle of the American Revolution

15. ______________________ Treaty of Versailles (not U.S.!)

16. ______________________ Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

17. ______________________ 1775-1781

18. ______________________ Treaty of Greenville

19. ______________________ Sergeant York

20. ______________________ “Splendid little war”

21. ______________________ “War to end all wars”

22. ______________________ Audie Murphy

23. ______________________ Wilson was president

24. ______________________ Jackson was president

25. ______________________ Madison was president

26. ______________________ FDR was president when it began

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27. ______________________ McKinley was president

28. ______________________ War to make the world safe for democracy

29. ______________________ Truman was president when it ended

30. ______________________ Jefferson Davis was president

31. ______________________ Polk was president

32. ______________________ Truman was president when it started but not when
it ended
33. ______________________ Eisenhower was president when it ended

34. ______________________ 1917-1918

35. ______________________ Sherman ‘s March to the Sea

36. ______________________ Battle which split the Confederacy east and west

37. ______________________ 1812-1814

38. ______________________ The real name for Bunker Hill

39. ______________________ 1846-1848

40. ______________________ Battle fought by “Mad” Anthony Wayne against the
Miamis in 1794.

41. ______________________ 1754-1763

42. ______________________ War Hawks

43. ______________________ 1898

44. ______________________ Oliver Hazard Perry was the commander at this
battle in 1813
45. ______________________ 1836

46. ______________________ Washington D.C. was burned

47. ______________________ 1941-1945

48. ______________________ 1949-1975

49. ______________________ “Second War for American Independence”

50. ______________________ 1950-53

51. ______________________ Mr. Polk’s War
52. ______________________ Site of Lee’s surrender to Grant

53. ______________________ Battle of Veracruz

54. ______________________ The Emancipation Proclamation was a result of
this battle

55. ______________________ Battle of San Jacinto