History Fact Finder

European Conflicts

1. What was the Trojan War, and what did a horse have to do with it? [answer]
2. What was the Peloponnesian War? [answer]
3. Why was the Macedonian king Alexander known as "the Great"? [answer]
4. How were the Romans able to conquer Greece? [answer]
5. What were the Punic Wars? [answer]
6. If the Roman Empire was so powerful, why did it fall? [answer]
7. What was the Norman Conquest? [answer]
8. What was the Hundred Years' War? [answer]
9. Who was Joan of Arc? [answer]
10. What were the Hussite Wars? [answer]
11. What was the Peasants' War? [answer]
12. What was the Gunpowder Plot? [answer]
13. What was the Defenestration of Prague? [answer]
14. What was the Peace of Westphalia? [answer]
15. What was the Great Northern War? [answer]
16. What was the Seven Years' War? [answer]
17. What was the Oath of the Tennis Court? [answer]
18. What was the Reign of Terror? [answer]
19. What was the French revolutionary calendar? [answer]
20. How long did the French Revolution last? [answer]
21. What was the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire? [answer]
22. When did the Napoleonic Wars begin and end? [answer]
23. Why did Russian czar Alexander I order the burning of Moscow? [answer]
24. What was the London Protocol? [answer]
25. What was the Crimean War? [answer]
26. What is the Treaty of Paris? [answer]

American Conflicts

1. How did Great Britain come to control so much of North America? [answer]
2. What was the French and Indian War? [answer]
3. What was the Boston Tea Party? [answer]
4. Who were Paul Revere and the minutemen? [answer]
5. Why was the Battle of Bunker Hill an important event in the American Revolution? [answer]
6. Was France an ally of the American colonists in their war against Great Britain? [answer]
7. Did all American Revolution battles take place in the Northeast? [answer]
8. What was the Battle of Tippecanoe? [answer]
9. Who were the War Hawks? [answer]
10. Who said, "We have met the enemy and they are ours"? [answer]
11. What does "Remember the Alamo" mean? [answer]
12. Why was the Mexican War fought? [answer]
13. What did the United States gain from the Mexican War? [answer]
14. What was the War of Reform? [answer]
15. What was privateering? [answer]
16. What did "Fifty-four forty or fight" mean? [answer]
17. Was the Civil War fought to abolish slavery? [answer]
18. How did the American Civil War begin and how did it end? [answer]
19. What were the Union and the Confederacy? [answer]
20. Who was Andrew Johnson, and why did he vow to burn Nashville? [answer]
21. What was the significance of the Battle of Gettysburg? [answer]
22. What was the Sioux uprising? [answer]
23. What was "Custer's last stand"? [answer]
24. Why was the Spanish-American War fought? [answer]
25. What happened to the Philippines after the islands were given up to the United States? [answer]

Asian And African Conflicts

1. What was the First Sino-Japanese War? [answer]
2. What was the Boer War? [answer]