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Examinations

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Each examination will consist of

1) an essay section in which you are called upon to write two essays from a field of four questions based upon web readings and exploration. Each examination essay will be worth 50 points toward the course grade. (100 points total)

2) an identication section inwhich you are called upon to identify and state the historical significance of five out of ten items in one paragraph each. Each item will be worth 10 points (50 points total)

3) a multiple choice section which will consist of 25 questions based upon quotations taken from the web readings. Each question will be worth 2 points (50 points total)

GENERAL TOPICS FOR THE FIRST EXAMINATION:

• 1) Introduction to Military History (Web Assignment 1).
• 2) Colonial Wars (Web Assignment 2).
• 3) The American Revolution--First Phase (Web Assignment 3).
• 4) The American Revolution--Second Phase (Web Assignment 4).
• 5) The Military in the Early American Republic, 1783-1812 (Web Assignment 5).
• 6) The United States, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars (Web Assignment 6).
• 7) The War of 1812 (Web Assignment 7)
• 8) The Legacy of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars in America (Web Assignment 8)

ITEMS TO BE FAMILIAR WITH FOR THE FIRST EXAMINATION:

 linear tactics 
grenadiers 
line infantry 
Vauban 
Gustavus Adolphus 
Oliver Cromwell 
Marlborough
Frederick II 
Seven Years War 
French & Indian War 
Joint Stock Cos. 
Navigation Acts 
Braddock 
Quebec 
Wolfe 
Canada 

 

 

 

 
Boston 
Lexington 
Concord 
Bunker Hill 
George Washington 
Brandywine 
Saratoga 
Hessians 
Trenton 
Valley Forge 
Howe 
Burgoyne 
Nathaniel Greene 
Cowpens 
Militia 
Tories 

 

 

 

 
Continental Army 
League of Armed 
Neutrality 
Von Steuben 
Lafayette 
Ticonderoga 
James Rogers Clark 
Cornwallis 
Yorktown 
Treaty of Paris 
Newburgh 
Shays Rebellion 
Whiskey Rebellion 
Anthony Wayne 
French revolution 
Guard Nationale 

 

 

 

 
Levee en Masse 
Nationalism 
Napoleon 
Louisiana 
Lewis and Clark 
Blockade 
Barbary Pirates 
Impressment 
Privateering 
Warhawks 
Hartford 
Plattsburgh 
New Orleans 
Jackson 
Tippacanoe 

 

 

 

 

 

GENERAL TOPICS FOR THE SECOND EXAMINATION:

• 1) The Military of the U.S., 1815-1846 (Web Assignment 9).
• 2) The Texas Revolution and the U.S.-Mexican War (Web Assignment 10).
• 3) The Civil War, 1861-1863 (Web Assignment 11).
• 4) The Civil War, 1863-1865 (Web Assignment 12).
• 5) The American Civil War and the European Military (Web Assignment 13).
• 6) The Industrial Revolution and Universal Conscription, 1865-1914 (Web Assignment 14).
• 7) The American Military, 1865-98 (Web Assignment 15).
• 8) American Imperialism and Overseas Conflicts, 1898-1899 (Web Assignment 16).

ITEMS TO BE FAMILIAR WITH FOR THE SECOND EXAMINATION:

John Calhoun Sam Houston Eli Whitney Jomini Clausewitz Silvanus Thayer Dennis Hart Mahan Simon Bolivar Zachary Taylor Winfield Scott Doniphan Vera Cruz Crimea Minié Telegraph Dennis Mahan Robert E. Lee George McClelland

Thomas Jackson Manassas(Bull Run)Shilo Antietam Gettysburg Rifled muskets ironclads Monitor Merrimac-Virginia The Alabama Kiersarge railroads Henry Halleck U. S. Grant W. T. Sherman P. E. Sheridan Franco Prussian War General Staff

staff officers field officers reserve system Conscription Mobilization Bessemer Gatling Breechloaders Browning Gardener Maxim Cowpens Militia Custer Crook Little Big Horn Sioux Apache

Nez Perce Buffalo Soldiers Geronimo Wounded Knee Emory Upton Alfred Thayer Mahan Geroge Dewey William Shafter Russell Alger Manila Bay Santiago Theodore Roosevelt Rough Riders San Juan Hill Leavenworth Newport , R.I. Annapolis West Point

GENERAL TOPICS FOR THE THIRD EXAMINATION:

• 1) The American Military and a Changing World, 1898-1914 (Web Assignment 17).
• 2) The Origins, Outbreak and Course of World War I, 1914-1917 (Web Assignment 18)
• 3)Stalemate and U.S. Involvement, 1917-1918 (Web Assignment 19).
• 4) The Interwar Period (Web Assignment 20).
• 5) The Trump Card: U.S. Entry into the Second World War (Web Assignment 21).
• 6) World War II--Europe. (Web Assignments 22, 24).
• 7) World War II--Pacific & Asia. (Web Assignments 23, 25).

ITEMS TO BE FAMILIAR WITH FOR THE THIRD EXAMINATION:

Philippines Moros Cuba Puerto Rico Elihu Root Dick Act (1903) Militia Act (1903) Leonard Wood Plattsburgh Program ROTC Schlieefen Plan Western Front Lusitania Trench Warfare Zimmerman John J. Pershing Pancho Villa AEF Convoys

Destroyers U-Boats Air corps Tanks Gas Attack Central Powers Chateau Thierry Belleau Woods Argonne Forest Versailles League of Nations Washington Treaties U.S.S.Langley Dive bombers William Mitchell George Patton Dwight Eisenhower George Marshall Douglas MacArthur

Omar bradley Bonus Army Lend Lease Orange Iceland Indochina Manchuria Sino-Japanese War Pearl Harbor Wake Bataan Corregeidor Nisei Midway Coral Sea Raiders Code Talkers Island Hopping Guadalcanal

Tarawa Iwo Jima Kassarine pass Salerno Anzio Rapido River Normandy D-Day Rangers Seabees Omaha Beach Airborne Overlord Market Garden Bulge Strategic Bombing Flying Fortresses Carriers Hiroshima

GENERAL TOPICS FOR THE THIRD EXAMINATION:

• 1) The Cold War & U. S. Military (Web Assignment 26).
• 2) The Korean Conflict (Web Assignment 27).
• 3) The Cold War and Brinkmanship (Web Assignment 28).
• 4) The U. S. Military and Guerilla War (Web Assignment 29)
• 5) The Vietnam Conflict (Web Assignment 30).
• 6) The U. S. Military and the End of the Cold War, 1975-1990 (Web Assignment 31).
• 7) New Challenges, New Problems (Web Assignment 32).

ITEMS TO BE FAMILIAR WITH FOR THE FOURTH EXAMINATION:

Yalta Potsdam Greek Civil War Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Atomic Bomb Berlin Airlift Depatment of Defense OSS CIA Air Force Joint Chiefs of Staff Executive Order 9981 Selective Service Chinese Civil War Indochina War Korea Task Force Smith Pusan 38th Parallel

Inchon Police Action I Corps 8th Army Chosen Yalu Walker Ridgeway Panmunjam DMZ Dienbienphu New Look Gyroscope Berlin Crisis Cuban missle Crisis Lebanon Special Forces Counterinsurgency Guerrilla Huk

Vietnam Viet Minh Ho Chi Minh Viet Cong Laos Pathet Lao Cambodia Khmer Rouge Containment Naional Liberation Decolonization Vo Nguyen Giap Gulf of Tonkin W. Westmoreland Ia Drang Valley Khe Sanh Tet Offensive Vietnamization NATO Warsaw pact

ICBM's IRBM's Proliferation Cruise Missiles PolarisTrident "Smart Bombs" S.D.I. Air-Ground Combat Desert Storm Nicaragua Afghanistan Grenada Panama Haiti Somalia Rwanda-Burundi Bosnia Kosovo Yugoslavia "Peacekeeping"

EVALUATION FOR EACH EXAMINATION
EVALUATION CRITERIA

1. Pertinance. Does the essay directly address the question? Is there a significant effort to answer the question? (10 points).

2. Analysis. Is the focus of the essay maintained? Are the points or topics clearly conceived, presented and discussed? (10 points).

3. Content. Is the information presented to subtantiate points and topics accurate and clear? Do the facts contribute evidence to the arguments presented? (10 points).

4. Organization. Is the essay composed in a clear and logical manner? Is there an introductory statement, a body of evidence, and a conclusion? (10 points).

5. Mechanics. Are the fundamentals of paragraphing, sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and punctuation followed? (10 points).

EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFICATION ITEMS:

1. Identification: Is the item fully identified and defined (who, what, when, where)? (5 points/item).

2. Significance: Is the historical significance of the item clearly stated (why, how)? (5 points/item).