Learn Wars of World History
Learn about history's most important wars in this course!
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What you'll learn in Wars of World History
- Global conflict led to the downfall of Nazi Germany, imperial Japan — World War II
- Trench warfare between European alliances produced "Lost Generation" — World War I
- Union forces defeated Confederate secession attempt, abolished slavery — American Civil War
- 13 colonies gained independence from Britain, established U.S. — American Revolution
- Inconclusive war caused in part by impressment of U.S. sailors — War of 1812
- Vietnam unified after U.S. defeat in Southeast Asian guerrilla war — Vietnam War
- Semilegendary conflict between attacking Greeks, Priam's city of Troy — Trojan War
- War of "Manifest Destiny" gained Southwestern territory for U.S. — Mexican War
- Thucydides wrote about this war in which Sparta defeated Athens — Peloponnesian War
- U.S. seized Spanish colonies like Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Philippines — Spanish-American War
- British and French joined to seize Russian naval bases on Black Sea — Crimean War
- Struggle between England and France for control of French throne — Hundred Years' War
- "Forgotten War" that resulted in DMZ across Korean peninsula — Korean War
- Struggle for influence between rival superpowers U.S. and USSR — Cold War
- Catholic-Protestant war in Germany that drew in Spain, Sweden, France — Thirty Years' War
- Francisco Franco's forces overthrew the Spanish republic — Spanish Civil War
- Bonaparte's attempt to conquer Europe foiled by hostile coalition — Napoleonic Wars
- Unified Germany emerged from Bismarck's destruction of French empire — Franco-Prussian War
- Struggle between king and Long Parliament that cost Charles I his head — English Civil War
- Struggle between Houses of York and Lancaster for English throne — War of the Roses
- Tsar Nicholas Il's empire weakened by loss to a rising Asian power — Russo-Japanese War
- Prussia's Frederick the Great held off French, Austrians, Russians — Seven Years' War
- British, Dutch, Austrians fought to keep Louis XIV off Spanish throne — War of the Spanish Succession
- International alliance ended Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait — Persian Gulf War
- Britain, colonists seized Canada from French/Native American alliance — French and Indian War
- U.S. forces deposed Hussein, searched for weapons of mass destruction — Iraq War
- France and Prussia disputed Maria Theresa's claim to the throne — War of the Austrian Succession
- Struggle for Baltic dominance ended with Russia's win over Sweden — Great Northern War
- Struggle between Rome and Carthage for control of Mediterranean — Punic Wars
- British empire annexed South African republics after costly struggle — Second Boer War
- Britain ended Argentine occupation of disputed South Atlantic islands — Falklands War
- Roman republic narrowly survived long struggle against Hannibal — Second Punic War
- Israel seized West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights — Six-Day War
- Ancient Greeks repelled two invasions by Achaemenid Persia — Greco-Persian Wars
- 1/3 of Paraguay's men died in this war against Brazil/Argentina/Uruguay — War of the Triple Alliance
- Forced China to open its ports to European drug trade from India — Opium Wars
- This war for control of the Atacama Desert left Bolivia landlocked — War of the Pacific
- Surprise attack by Egypt and Syria on Israeli troops in Sinai, Golan — Yom Kippur War
- Wellington's British and Spanish allies drove the French out of Iberia — Peninsular War
- Ended with Soviet seizure of territory from Finnish ski troops — Winter War
- Bloodless undeclared conflict over Maine-New Brunswick boundary — Aroostook War
- New England colonists defeated Native American leader Metacomet — King Philip's War
- Paraguay won disputed semiarid border region from Bolivia — Chaco War
- American militia drove Sauk people off of the Illinois frontier — Black Hawk War
- Lenin, Trotsky, and the Red Army were victorious over White forces — Russian Civil War
- Mao Zedong's Communists won this long struggle against the Nationalists — Chinese Civil War
- Sam Houston set up a republic after throwing off Mexican rule — Texas Revolution
- Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul (modern-day France) — Gallic Wars
- Rising of slaves, including Spartacus, against their Roman masters — Third Servile War
- T .E. Lawrence advised this desert uprising against the Ottoman Empire — Arab Revolt
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