U.S. History Review

Famous Wars & Conflicts Famous Ships Foreign Policy
Famous Assassins Presidential Platforms Homes
Famous Native Americans

American Wars & Conflicts

French & Indian War - French & Indians v. Colonist & English

American Revolution - Colonist v. English

War of 1812 - U.S. v. English

Mexican War - U.S. v. Mexico

Civil War - U.S. v. Confederate States of America

Spanish-American War - U.S. v. Spain

World War 1

World War 2

Cold War

Korean War

Vietnam War

Gulf War

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Famous Assassins

John Wilkes Boothe - shot Abraham Lincoln

Charles J. Guiteau - shot James Garfield

Leon F. Czolgosz - shot William McKinley

Lee Harvey Oswald - shot J.F.K

Sirhan Sirhan - shot Robert F. Kennedy

 

 

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Famous Native Americans

Pocohantas -Jamestown

Squanto - Pilgrims

Pontiac - French & Indian War

Sacajewa or Sacagawea- Lewis and Clark

"The Prophet" - prediction that Presidents would die

Black Hawk - Indian removal from the Chicago area

Sitting Bull - Battle of Little Bighorn

 

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Famous Ships

Nina, Pinta & Santa Maria - Columbus

Mayflower - Pilgrims

"Old Ironsides" - War of 1812

Maine - Spanish American War

Nashville - taking of Panama

Ancon - first ship through Panama Canal

Lusitania - World War I

Arizona - World War II

Turner Joy & Maddox - Vietnam

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Presidential Platforms

Teddy Roosevelt - "Square Deal"

Woodrow Wilson - "New Freedom"

FDR - "New Deal"

Truman - "Fair Deal"

JFK - "The New Frontier"

LBJ - "The Great Society"

Nixon - "New Federalism"

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Foreign Policy

Monroe Doctrine - Europe keep "hands off" Western Hemisphere

Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine - "Policeman of the West"

"Big Stick Policy" - TR threats of force to get countries to comply

"Dollar Diplomacy" - Taft's use of money to influence countries

"Moral Diplomacy" - Wilson "U.S. is the conscience of the world"

Truman Doctrine - military aid to countries threatened by Communism

Eisenhower Doctrine - use armed forces to combat Communism

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Homes

Mt. Vernon - George Washington

Monticello - Thomas Jefferson

Hermitage - Andrew Jackson

Sagamore Hills - TR

Hyde Park - FDR

 

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