Disc 1. Part 1: Wars for the continent: 1702-1713 Queen Anne's War, 1739 War of Jenkins Ear begins, 1754-1763 French and Indian War, 1763 Pontiac's war, 1770 Boston Massacre. Part 2. The Revolutionary war: 1775 The Battle of Lexingtona nd Concord; George Washington takes command of the Continerntal Army, 1776 Washington crosses the Delaware, 1777 Second Battle of Saratoga; John Paul Jones sets sail; The Winter at Valley Forge, 1778 George Rogers Clark captures Kasaskia, 1781 Siege of Yorktown.
Disc 2. Part 3: Manifest Destiny wars: 1797 U.S.S. Constitution is launched, 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, 1814 Washington, D.C. is capture and burned by the British; The Star Spangled Banner is written, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, 1832 Massacre at Bad Axe River ends Black Hawk War, 1836 Alamo falls. Part 4: The Civil war: 1846 United States declares war on Mexico, 1861 Eleven states comprise the Confederacy, 1862 Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address; the fall of Vicksburg, 1865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox.
Disc 3. Part 5: The Imperial wars: 1750 Native American horse cultures dominate the Great Plains, 1876 Battle at the Little Big Horn, 1890 Battle at Wounded Knee, 1898 Sinking of the Maine, 1914-1917 America prepares for World War I, 1917 America enters World War I. Part 6: The Global wars: 1941 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, 1944 D-Day "Operation Overlord", 1945 America drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, 1950 President Truman sends American troops to the aid of South Korea, 1950-1953 The Korean War.
Disc 4. Part 6: The Cold War: 1952 The Marshall Plan wins the battle for Western Europe, 1954 John Foster Dulles becomes Eisenhower's Cold War warrior, 1962 Cuban Missle crisis, 1964 Vietnam war: COngress passes Guild of Tonkin Resolution, 1968 Vietnam War: the Tet Offensive. Part 8: The Police wars: 1973 Vietnam War: cease-fire ends wawr, 1983 The Grenada Conflict, 1990 The Gulf war, 1991 End of the Cold war, 2003 Gulf War II.