Military History Midterm Study Guide

Levels of Military Operations

1. Strategic

2. Operational

3. Tactical

Heart and soul of the army is…

Training & Discipline

Internal Threads

1. Military Professionalism

2. Tactics

3. Operations

4. Strategy

5. Logistics and Administration

6. Military Theory and Doctrine

7. Military Leadership

External Threads

1. Political Factors

2. Social Factors

3. Economic Factors

4. Technology

5. Military Geography

1st Group of MilItia Men

Minutemen

Treaty Ending Revolutionary War

Treaty of Paris

Impressment

Historical practice where a state forced individuals, often citizens of a foreign country, into military or naval service against their will

Battle which caused the French to sign the Franco-American alliance was

Battle of Bunker Hill

Commander at the end of the Revolutionary War

• General Charles Cornwallis

• Surrendered at Yorktown

Father of West Point

Sylvanus Thayer

Civil War Era

Where did McLean surrender?

• Appomattox Court House, Virginia

• April 9, 1865

When was the Emancipation Proclamation?

1863

Abolitionist who led an attack at Harpers Ferry in VA

John Brown

First state to secede

South Carolina

Peryville, Kentucky (something about it idk)

False

Motivation that Americans had the divine right to expand Westward

Manifest Destiny

Last straw that caused McKinley to ask Congress to declare war on Spain

USS Maine

General Order 100

Document that provided guidelines to soldiers in the Philippines during the early 1900s

Amalgamation

• Give us your people, and we’ll stick them to our units

• We refused

What did the American Expeditionary force have in the Allied Plans?

• Battle of Saint-Mihiel

• Muse-Argonne

Maine battle that was the turning point during the Revolutionary War

Battle of Saratoga

Continental Soldiers marched because they weren’t happy (promised pensions and never got paid)

Major side of the Battle in Texas for Independence

Helena?

Grant changed the strategic objective of the Civil War to what

War of Attrition

Robert E Lee supported the decision to secede from the United States

False

Sherman’s Strategy of Total War

Make the South Burn

Peryville, Kentucky

False

Following advantage the Confederacy had over the Union

• Better Generals

• Way more manpower

• Leaders’’ ability to adapt

Last staw that caused McKinley to ask Congress to declare war on Spain

USS Maine

Fighting with the Philippines to fighting agains the Philippines

• Liberated, then fought them

• Paid Spain but then said they’re ours now

• US took control of the Philippines

Battle of Saint Mihiel

1st major battle in WWI that the United States took part in

American Expeditionary Forced approved what in the Allied Plans?

• Battle of Saint-Mihiel

• Muse-Argonne

A Whig from Kentucky, he was devoted to the Union and was behind the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850

Henry Clar

Primary purpose of the Sugar, Stamp, and Tea Acts was to help the British

Pay for French and Indian War Debts as well as British troops support

Military history is the study of how societies from their military institutions to operate in time of peace and war

True

Why couldn’t George Washington perfectly replicate the British regiment model in the colonial military

Large pool of poor men that existed in Europe did not exist in the colonies

President Andrew Jackson’s attitude toward reconstruction

Southern States should be forgiven and reenter the union quickly