HIST 4290 U



HIST 4290 U.S. Military History

military history

3 Cs of warfare

objective

offensive

mass/concentration

economy of force

maneuver

unity of command

security

surprise

simplicity

strategy

grand strategy

tactics

turning movement

envelopment

double envelopment

logistics

lines of communications

theater of operations/area of responsibility

Old World warfare

linear tactics

militia

stronghold defense

Indian conflicts

Indian tactics

Tidewater Wars (1622-1632; 1644-1646)

King Philip’s War (1675-1676)

Indian alliances

King William’s War (1689-1697)

Treaty of Ryswick (1697)

Queene Anne’s War (1701-1713)

Treaty of Utrecht (1713)

King George’s War (1744-1748)

Robert Jenkins

Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)

French and Indian War (1754-1763)

Fort Duquesne

Colonel George Washington

Fort Necessity

General Edward Braddock

Quebec/Plains of Abraham

General James Wolfe

Treaty of Paris (1763)

First Continental Congress

General Thomas Gage

Lexington/Concord (19 April 1775)

strategy of attrition

Second Continental Congress

Bunker Hill/Breed’s Hill (17 June 1775)

Sir William Howe

Continental Army

General George Washington

Ticonderoga

General Henry Knox

Boston (17 March 1776)

New York Campaign

Long Island (27 August 1776)

Manhattan (15 September 1776)

White Plains (28 October 1776)

New Jersey Campaign

Trenton (26 December 1776)

Princeton (3 January 1777)

Philadelphia plan

Brandywine (11 September 1777)

Germantown (4 October 1777)

General John Burgoyne

General Philip Schuyler/General Horatio Gates

Saratoga (17 October 1777)

France

Treaty of Alliance and Commerce (1778)

Valley Forge

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

General Henry Clinton

Monmouth Court House (27 June 1778)

partisan warfare

Savannah (29 December 1778)

Robert Howe/Archibald Campbell

General Benjamin Lincoln

Siege of Savannah

Charleston (12 May 1780)

General Charles Cornwallis

Colonel Banastre Tarleton

Waxhaws (29 May 1780)

Colonel Francis Marion

General Horatio Gates

Camden (16 August 1780)

King’s Mountain (7 October 1780)

General Nathanael Greene

General Daniel Morgan

Cowpens (17 January 1781)

Guilford Courthouse (15 March 1781)

Yorktown (17 October 1781)

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Newburgh “Conspiracy” (1783)

Society of the Cincinnati

demobilization

First American Regiment

Constitution

Department of War

Militia Act of 1792

General Anthony Wayne

Fallen Timbers (20 August 1794)

Treaty of Greenville (1795)

Quasi War (1798-1800)

Department of the Navy

Military Peace Establishment Act (1802)

West Point

Sylvanus Thayer

Tecumseh

General William H. Harrison

Tippecanoe (7 November 1811)

Impressment

USS Chesapeake

War Hawks (1810)

General William Hull

Fort Detroit (16 August 1812)

General Stephen van Rensselaer

Queenston (13 October 1812)

General Henry Dearborn

Frenchtown (22 January 1813)

“Remember the Raisin”

Lake Ontario Campaign

Commodore Oliver Perry

Lake Erie (10 September 1813)

Battle of the Thames (5 October 1813)

Montreal Campaign

General Andrew Jackson

Horseshoe Bend (27 March 1814)

Washington, D.C.

Bladensburg (24 August 1814)

New Orleans (8 January 1815)

Treaty of Ghent (1814)

Seminole Indians

Nicholls/Arbuthnot/Armbrister

Fort Scott (27 November 1817)

First Seminole War (1817-1818)

Billy Bowlegs

St. Marks (7 April 1818)

Pensacola

Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)

Chief Osceola

Dade Massacre (28 December 1835)

Second Seminole War (1835-1842)

Scott/Jesup/Taylor/Armistead/Worth

Third Seminole War (1855-1858)

Texas Revolution

Alamo (6 March 1836)

“Remember the Alamo”

Goliad (27 March 1836)

San Jacinto (21 April 1836)

Texas Annexation (1 March 1845)

Rio Grande/Nueces

General Zachary Taylor

Fort Texas (25 April 1846)

Palo Alto (8 May 1846)

Resaca de la Palma (9 May 1846)

Monterey Campaign

General Winfield Scott

Buena Vista (22-23 February 1847)

Vera Cruz (9 March 1847)

Mexico City Campaign

Cerro Gordo (18 April 1847)

Contreras/Churubusco/Chapultepec

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)

FIRST EXAM

Antoine Henry Jomini

Henry Halleck

Dennis Hart Mahan

Election of 1860

Abraham Lincoln

secession

Fort Sumter

Robert Anderson

P.G.T. Beauregard

Proclamation of Insurrection

North-South comparison

Military geography

Eastern Theater

Western Theater

Trans-Mississippi Theater

Anaconda Plan

Union command structure

Confederate command structure

Wilson’s Creek (10 August 1861)

Belmont (7 November 1861)

Philippi (3 June 1861)/Rich Mountain (11 July 1861)

First Bull Run/Manassas (21 July 1861)

Irvin McDowell

Beauregard/Joseph E. Johnston

Thomas J. Jackson

blockade

New Orleans

David G. Farragut

Benjamin F. Butler

Pea Ridge (7-8 March 1862)

Henry-Donelson Campaign

U.S. Grant

Nathan B. Forrest

Shiloh (6-7 April 1862)

Albert S. Johnston

Lew Wallace/Don Carlos Buell

Corinth Campaign

Henry W. Halleck

Kentucky Invasion

Braxton Bragg

Perryville (8 October 1862)

Don C. Buell

William S. Rosecrans

Stones River/Murfreesboro (31 December 1862)

Monitor vs. Merrimack (8 March 1862)

Peninsula Campaign

George B. McClellan

Shenandoah Valley Campaign

Fair Oaks/Seven Pines (31 May 1862)

Robert E. Lee

Jeb Stuart

Seven Days’ Battles

Second Bull Run/Manassas (29-30 August 1862)

John Pope

Antietam/Sharpsburg (17 September 1862)

Emancipation Proclamation

Fredericksburg (13 December 1862)

Ambrose E. Burnside

“Mud March”

Chancellorsville (2-5 May 1863)

Joseph Hooker

Jackson’s Flank March

Gettysburg (1-3 July 1863)

George G. Meade

20th Maine/Little Round Top

Pickett’s Charge

Vicksburg Campaign

Grierson’s Raid

Chickamauga (19-20 September 1863)

William S. Rosecrans

George H. Thomas

Chattanooga (23-25 November 1863)

Missionary Ridge

Overland Campaign

Wilderness (5-6 May 1864)

Spotsylvania (8-12 May 1864)

Cold Harbor (3 June 1864)

Petersburg Siege

“The Crater” (30 July 1864)

Atlanta Campaign

William T. Sherman

Kennesaw Mountain

John B. Hood

“March to the Sea”

Franklin (30 November 1864)

Nashville (15-16 December 1864)

Appomattox (9 April 1865)

March Through the Carolinas

Durham Station (26 April 1865)

Wilson’s Raid

Grand Review (23-24 May 1865)

Mexico

Reconstruction

Gatling gun

smokeless powder

Indian Wars

Indian strategy

Colonel John M. Chivington

Sand Creek Massacre (29 November 1864)

Sioux War of 1865-1867

Bozeman Trail

Fetterman Massacre (21 December 1866)

Fort Laramie Treaty (1868)

General Phil Sheridan

Battle of the Washita (27 November 1868)

Red River War (1874-1875)

Great Sioux War of 1876

Sitting Bull/Crazy Horse

Lt. Col. George A. Custer/7th Cavalry

Little Big Horn (25 June 1876)

Nez Perce War (1877)

Chief Joseph

Wounded Knee (29 December 1890)

Virginius affair (1873)

Naval Appropriations Act of 1883

“White Squadron”

Stephen B. Luce

Naval War College (1884)

Alfred T. Mahan

Benjamin F. Tracy

Naval Act of 1890

Emory Upton

Cuban Revolution

USS Maine

“Remember the Maine”

Teller Amendment

Spanish-American War

Commodore George Dewey

Manila Bay (1 May 1898)

Santiago Campaign

San Juan Hill/Kettle Hill (1 July 1898)

San Juan (Puerto Rico)

Manila (13 August 1898)

Treaty of Paris (1899)

Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902)

Boxer Rebellion (1900)

Theodore Roosevelt

Great White Fleet

SECOND EXAM

General Staff (1903)

Army War College (1903)

Mexico/Pancho Villa

World War I

Naval Act of 1916

National Defense Act of 1916

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (1917)

Zimmermann Telegram

convoy system

Selective Service Act of 1917

John J. Pershing

American Expeditionary Force (AEF)

trench warfare

Marne salient

Marne counteroffensive (18 July-6 August 1918)

St. Mihiel offensive (12-16 September 1918)

Meuse-Argonne offensive (26 September-8 November 1918)

Treaty of Versailles (1919)

Tank Corps

Billy Mitchell

Air Corps Act (1926)

World War II

Selective Service Act of 1940

Tydings Amendment

Victory Program

Hideki Tojo

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Admiral Husband E. Kimmel

General Walter C. Short

Pearl Harbor

North African Campaign

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Casablanca, Oran, Algiers

Kasserine Pass

General George S. Patton

Sicilian Campaign

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

Messina/Palermo

General Douglas MacArthur

Philippine Campaign

Corregidor

Bataan Death March

Doolittle Raid

Plan Orange

Admiral Chester Nimitz

Coral Sea

Midway

Guadalcanal

Tarawa/Betio

Italian Campaign

Salerno

General Mark Clark

Monte Cassino

Anzio

Rome

Normandy Invasion/D-Day

Operation Fortitude

Utah, Omaha

Rommel/Rundstedt

Replacements

Hedgerows

Falaise pocket

Paris

Anvil-Dragoon

broad front vs. narrow front

Market-Garden

Battle of the Bulge

Malmedy

Bastogne

Dresden

Remagen

Torgau

Berlin

V-E Day (May 8, 1945)

Saipan

Philippine Sea

Peleliu

“defense in depth”

Leyte Gulf

kamikaze

Iwo Jima

Okinawa

General Curtis LeMay

Manhattan Project

Potsdam Declaration

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

V-J Day (August 14, 1945)

WAAC/WAC

WAVES

SPAR

WASP

National Security Act (1947)

Executive Order 9981 (1948)

Women’s Armed Service Act of 1948

containment

NATO

Korean War

THIRD EXAM

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