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Table of Contents: View Collections by Historical Event
[View Documents by Historical Event]
| Term | Discussed |
| French and Indian Wars, 1689-1763 | 1 |
| Seven Years War, 1756-1763 | 1 |
| American Revolution, 1775-1783 | 4 |
| Declaration of Independence signed, July 4, 1776 | 1 |
| French Revolution, 1789-1799 | 1 |
| Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815 | 1 |
| George Washington dies, December 14, 1799 | 1 |
| War of 1812 | 1 |
| Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 | 4 |
| Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920 | 3 |
| California Gold Rush, 1849 | 2 |
| U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 | 149 |
| Battle of Pea Ridge, AR, March 6-8, 1862 | 1 |
| Battle of Shiloh, TN, April 6, 1862 | 1 |
| Slavery abolished in Washington, DC, April 16, 1862 | 2 |
| Second Battle of Bull Run , VA, August 29, 1862 | 1 |
| Battle of Chancellorsville, VA, April 30-May 6, 1863 | 1 |
| Siege of Vicksburg, MS, May 5-July 4, 1863 | 3 |
| Battle of Gettysburg, PA, July 1-3, 1863 | 2 |
| Battle of Fort Wagner-Morris Island, SC, July 18-September 7, 1863 | 1 |
| Battle of Chickamauga, GA, September 18-20, 1863 | 2 |
| Cheyenne-Arapaho War, 1864-1865 | 1 |
| Battle of the Wilderness, VA, May 5-7, 1864 | 1 |
| Siege of Atlanta, GA, July 22, 1864-September 2, 1864 | 1 |
| Sand Creek Massacre, CO, November 29, 1864 | 1 |
| Abraham Lincoln Assassinated, Washington, DC, April 14, 1865 | 1 |
| Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | 2 |
| Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 | 1 |
| Crazy Horse is stabbed and dies of wounds, Fort Robinson, NE, September 5-6, 1877 | 1 |
| Spanish-American War, 1898 | 4 |
| Treaty of Paris, December 10, 1898 | 1 |
| Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 | 3 |
| World War I, 1914-1918 | 47 |
| Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 | 2 |
| Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1918-1919 | 1 |
| German Armistice, November 11, 1918 | 1 |
| Prohibition, 1919-1933 | 2 |
| Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1939 | 2 |
| Great Depression, 1929-1941 | 52 |
| Stock Market Crash, October 29, 1929 | 1 |
| Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 | 7 |
| Holocaust, 1938-1945 | 21 |
| World War II, 1939-1945 | 231 |
| Battle of Britain, July-October 1940 | 2 |
| Battle for Crete, May 20-31, 1941 | 1 |
| Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 | 10 |
| Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945 | 11 |
| Papua-New Guinea Campaign, 1942 | 1 |
| D-Day Invasion, June 6, 1944 | 3 |
| Battle of the Bulge, December 16, 1944-January 16, 1945 | 1 |
| Germany divided into occupation zones, June 5, 1945 | 1 |
| Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 | 3 |
| Cold War, 1945-1989 | 5 |
| Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949 | 1 |
| Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994 | 9 |
| Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 | 25 |
| U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 | 11 |
| Vietnam Conflict, 1955-1975 | 39 |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion, April 17, 1961 | 1 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 | 3 |
| Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963 | 2 |
| Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963 | 4 |
| Rivonia Trial, 1963-1964 | 6 |
| Voting Rights Act passed, U.S., 1965 | 1 |
| U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966- | 7 |
| Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 | 1 |
| Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968 | 2 |
| Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, June 4, 1968 | 1 |
| American Indian Movement occupies Alcatraz Island, November 20, 1969 - June 11, 1971 | 1 |
| Cambodian Civil War, 1970-1975 | 5 |
| Kent State University Riot, May 4, 1970 | 1 |
| Jim Jones and followers commit suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, November 18, 1978 | 1 |
| Falkland Islands War, 1982 | 2 |
| U.S. Invasion of Panama, December 12, 1989 | 1 |
| Yugoslav Civil War, 1991-1995 | 1 |
| Persian Gulf War, 1991 | 12 |
| Kosovo War, 1998-1999 | 2 |
| September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 | 3 |
| U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan, 2001 | 2 |
| Iraq War, 2003 | 1 |