History of Wars

Punic Wars

2016 BCE

264 BC – 146 BC
Rome and Carthage
Sicily, was fought over that piece of land
war will brake out in 264 BC
leader of Carthage is Hannibal
roman leaders Scipio and Cincinnati
war fought in Sicily an Tunisia
war will end in 264-236
Romes won enslaves the whole pollination and burned down the city

persian Wars

499 BCE

490-480 BCE
Greece and turkey
to conker more land and satisfy their king
-Acrimonious: Commander in Chief of Persian Army
-Artemis: Trusted advisory of Xerxes, General-
-Darius: King of Persia, attacked Greece
-Xerxes: King of Persia, attacked Greece, son of Darius
-Greeks +
-Miltiades: General, won battle of Marathon
The Greeks were able to regroup.

peloponnesian war

431 BCE

431 BC – 404 BC
Greece and Corinth
Athenian control of the Dalian League, the vast naval alliance that allowed it to dominate the Mediterranean Sea
-erodotus
-Miltiades
-Leonidas
-Themistocles
-Pausanias
-Pericles
-Aspasia
-Thucydides Peloponnesian League victory
Dissolution of the Delian League, Spartan hegemony over Athens and its allies

Trojan Wars

8 BCE

750-725 bce
Dardanelles
he war began after the abduction (or elopement) of Queen Helen of Sparta by the Trojan prince Paris.
Agamemnon was the leader of the Greek forces\
the Bronze Age conflict between the kingdoms of Troy and Mycenaean Greece–straddles the history and mythology of ancient Greece and inspired the greatest writers of antiquity, from Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles to Virgil

Hundred Years War

Dec 12, 1337

1337-1453
France
The Hundred Years' War was a long struggle between England and France over succession to the French throne
joan of arc
king Edward III
esults of the War. The Hundred Years War inflicted untold misery on France. Farmlands were laid waste, the population was decimated by war, famine, and the Black Death (see plague), and marauders terrorized the countryside.

War of the Roses

May 22, 1445

1445-1485
St Albans
Wars of the Roses came into common use in the nineteenth century, after the publication in 1829 of Anne of Geierstein by Sir Walter Scott.
John Audley
nitial Yorkist victories leading to over twenty years of Yorkist rule Final Lancastrian victory Establishment and accession of the Tudor dynasty

French and Indian War

Dec 12, 1754

1754-1763
North America
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War
-Tanaghrisson
-Marquis Duquesne
-George Washington
-Edward Braddock
-Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal
-Marquis de Montcalm
-William Pitt
-James Wolfe.
France cedes New France east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain, retaining Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and transfers Louisiana to Spain

Franco-Prussian War

Jul 19, 1871

1870-1871
Alsace Lorraine territory
conflict between France and Prussia that signaled the rise of German military power and imperialism.
-Bismark Russian leader
-napoleon the III was the french leader
Prussia wins the war
Bismark wins the war and get the unification of Germany

sino-japenes war

Aug 1, 1894

1894-1895
china and japan
its over land in Korea
yuan shikai
Meiji
japan wins
japan becomes the most powerful stat in asia

ww1

Jul 28, 1914

1914-1918
Europe
Africa
middle east
Asia
pacific ocean
The war drew in all the world's economic great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances
William II-Germany
Czar Nicholas II-Russia
George Clemenceau-France
Woodrow Wilson - US
David Lloyd George - Great Britain.
After the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919, between Germany on the one side and France, Italy, Britain and other minor allied powers on the other

ww2

Sep 1, 1939

1939-1945
-Russia
-Europe
-Africa
-pacific ocean
-Asia
-middle east
-Mediterranean sea
-Atlantic sea
-Eurasia
-Scandinavia
-southeast Asia
World War II began on Sept. 1, 1939, when Germany, without a declaration of war, invaded Poland. Britain and France declared war on Germany on Sept. 3, and all the members of the Commonwealth of Nations, except Ireland, rapidly followed suit. The fighting in Poland was brief.

Arab-Israeli wars

May 15, 1948

1947-1949
Israel - Israel United Kingdom France
1948 Arab-Israeli war is the impact of British foreign policy and consequently United Nations' policy regarding the Middle East. After the First World War,
David Ben-Gurion
Yigael Yadin
Yaakov Dori
The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel

Korean war

Jun 25, 1950

1950-1953
Korea
Korean Peninsula
Korean Demilitarized Zone
The Korean War (1950-1953) began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid.
Commanders
Matthew Ridgway
Harry S. Truman
United States of America
Mark W. Clark
United States of America
Chung Il-kwon
South Korea
Peng Dehuai
China
Kim Chaek

Vietnamese war

Nov 1, 1955

1955-1975
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Cambodia
North Vietnam
Laos
Southeast Asia
The U.S. government viewed its involvement in the war as a way to prevent a Communist takeover of South Vietnam
-Vo Nguyen Giap
Ho Chi Minh
North Vietnamese victory Withdrawal of American-led forces from Indochina Communist governments take power in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia South Vietnam is annexed by North Vietnam

cold war

Dec 26, 1974

1974-1991
Locations
United States of America
Soviet Union
Europe
Vietnam
Cuba
Korea
Greece
South America
East Asia
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states)
Commanders
Gerald Ford
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Yasser Arafat
Chiang Kai-shek
Hun Sen
Heng Samrin

Afghanistan-soviet war

Dec 25, 1979

1979-1998
Afghanistan
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
the Soviet 40th Army invaded Afghanistan in order to prop up the communist government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan against a growing insurgency

-Ahmad shah Massasoit
-Abdul haq
Leonid Brezhnev
-Mikhail Gorbachev
-shahnawaz Tanai
-Yuri Andropov
-Abdul rashid dostum
the USSR failed to handle inner political problems Several million Afghans had either fled to Pakistan for refuge or had become internal refugees

Persian gulf war

Aug 2, 1990

1990-1991
Iraq'
Kuwait
Persian gulf
Israel
Arabian peninsula
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
Hosni Mubarak
Michel Roquejeoffre
Mustafa Tlass
Margaret Thatcher
Salah Aboud Mahmoud
Hussein Kamel al-Majid
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
Abid Hamid Mahmud
Peter de la Billière
Kuwait and Iraq suffered enormous damage, and Saddam Hussein was not forced from power.

war in Iraq and afghanistane

Oct 7, 2001

2001 to the present
Iraq
Afghanistan
Middle East
the War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign begun by the United States and United Kingdom with support from other countries after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
Osama bin Laden
George W Bush
Hamid Karzai
Mullah Mohammed Omar
many deaths terrorist attacks