Hundred Years' War

Examples of Hundred Years' War in the following topics:

• The Hundred Years' War

  • The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France for control of the French throne.
  • This started what would become known as the Hundred Years' War.
  • The Edwardian War was the first series of hostilities of the Hundred Years' War.
  • The Lancastrian War was the third phase of the Anglo-French Hundred Years' War.
  • Discuss the three phases of conflict in the Hundred Years' War and Joan of Arc's role in it

• A Global War

  • The Seven Years' War was a world war fought between 1754 and 1763, the main conflict occurring in the seven-year period from 1756 to 1763.
  • Because of its span and global impact, some historians have argued that the Seven Years' War was the first world war (it took place almost 160 years before World War I).
  • However, this label has also been given to various earlier conflicts, including the Eighty Years' War, the Thirty Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession and the War of the Austrian Succession, and to later conflicts, including the Napoleonic Wars.
  • The term "Second Hundred Years' War" has been used in order to describe the almost continuous level of world-wide conflict during the entire 18th century, reminiscent of the more famous and compact struggle of the 14th century.
  • Assess the claim that the Seven Years' War was the first world war

• The Pequot War

  • The Pequot War was the first war between Native Americans and English settlers in northeastern America and foreshadowed European domination.
  • Based on archaeological and linguistic evidence, the Pequot and Mohegan Tribes, Indian peoples of the Algonquian language group, probably had lived in what is now southeastern Connecticut for several hundred years.
  • Mystic, or Missituk, was the site of the major battle of the war.
  • The tribe's leader, Wopigwooit, died in that year.
  • Many of Sassacus's tribesmen were captured during the war.

• World War I and the League of Nations

  • The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Talks that ended the First World War.
  • The diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift from the preceding hundred years.
  • The onset of World War II showed that the League had failed its primary purpose, which was to prevent any future world war.
  • The United Nations (UN) replaced it after the end of the war and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the League.
  • Explain the historical rise and fall of the League of Nations after World War I

• Empires in Conflict

  • The war was largely subsumed by the War of the Austrian Succession in 1742.
  • King William's War (1689–97), also known as the Nine Years War and the War of the League of Augsburg, was a phase of the larger Anglo-French conflict for colonial domination throughout the world.
  • Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second war for control of the continent, and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.
  • Following Queen Anne's War, relations between Carolina and the nearby native populations deteriorated, resulting in the Yamasee War of 1715 and Father Rale's War a few years later, which very nearly destroyed the province.
  • The French led Indian allies in numerous raids, such as the one on Nov. 28, 1745 that destroyed the village of Saratoga, New York, causing the death or capture of more than one hundred of its inhabitants.

• The Widening War at Home

  • By the end of that year, there had been antiwar rallies in some sixty cities.
  • The school year started with a large demonstration against Dow recruiters at the University of Wisconsin in Madison on October 17.
  • A coordinated series of demonstrations against the draft led by members of the Resistance, the War Resisters League, and SDS further galvanized anti-war sentiment.
  • Hundreds were arrested and injured.
  • Opinion polls showed a steady decline in support for the war after 1965.

• Events of the War

  • The Seven Years' War was a world war fought between 1756 and 1763 that involved every European great power of the time except the Ottoman Empire, spanned five continents, and affected Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and the Philippines.
  • The Seven Years' War was a world war fought between 1754 and 1763, the main conflict occurring in the seven-year period from 1756 to 1763.
  • In French-speaking Canada, it is known as the War of the Conquest, while it is called the Seven Years' War in English-speaking Canada (North America, 1754–1763), Pomeranian War (with Sweden and Prussia, 1757–1762), Third Carnatic War (on the Indian subcontinent, 1757–1763), and Third Silesian War (with Prussia and Austria, 1756–1763).
  • All the participants of the Seven Years' War: [blue] Great Britain, Prussia, Portugal, with allies; [green] France, Spain, Austria, Russia, Sweden with allies.
  • The Seven Years' War is sometimes considered the first true world war.

• Ranchers, Cowboys, and Cattle

  • Famous range wars included the Lincoln County War, the Pleasant Valley War, the Mason County War, and the Johnson County Range War, and sometimes were fought between local residents and gunmen hired by absentee landowners.
  • The Tewksburys, who were part Indian, started their operations as cattle ranchers before branching out to sheep, and racial slurs were bandied about from the early years of conflict.
  • Years after its end, the feud remained a subject of many books and articles, and a number of gunmen made a name of themselves for their participation.
  • One of the most well-known range wars of the American frontier, the Johnson County War has since become a highly mythologized and symbolic story of the Wild West, and over the years, variations of the storyline have come to include some of its most famous historical figures.
  • This was particularly true during the harsh winter of 1886–1887, when hundreds of thousands of cattle died across the Northwest, leading to a collapse of the cattle industry.

• American Indians and the War Effort

  • Some 44,000 American Indians served in the United States military during World War II.
  • At the time, this was one-third of all able-bodied Indian men from 18 to 50 years of age and 10% of all Indian population.
  • "The war," said the U.S.
  • Not counting the Purple Heart, more than two hundred military awards were given to American Indian soldiers.
  • By September 1942, the American government had recruited several hundred American Indians who spoke both Navajo and English to translate English words into the Navajo language to avoid enemy interception.

• The French and Indian War

  • The Seven Years' War was a global military war between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines.
  • The French and Indian War (1754–1763) is the name for the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War.
  • The British fared poorly in the first years of the war.
  • The attack sent panic through the British force, and hundreds of British soldiers and militiamen died, including General Braddock.
  • The war in North America officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on February 10, 1763, and war in the European theatre of the Seven Years' War was settled by the Treaty of Hubertusburg on February 15, 1763.