Cycles in U. S. History Generations at War

Every generation seems to have its war. But some generations take it more seriously than others it seems. The following table is a summary of the generational and era alignment of the most visible wars, battles and skirmishes in the British Colonies and later the United States

Era Cycle	Outer Driven Era Reactives in Power Adaptives in Uniform	Awakening Era Civics in Power Idealists in Uniform	Inner Driven Era Adaptives in Power Reactives in Uniform	Crisis Era Idealists in Power Civics in Uniform
Colonial Cycle (1589-1692)	1589-1620 Powhatan Conflict (1606?-1609)	1621-1640 Pequot Indian Wars (1637) Iroquois War (1642-1653)	1641-1674 King Phillips War (1675-76) Bacon's Rebellion (1676)	1675-1692 Glorious Revolution and King William's War (European War of the League of Augsburg) (1689-97)
Revolutionary Cycle (1693-1787)	1693-1733 Tuscarora Indian War (1711-1713) Queen Anne's War (European War of Spanish Succession) (1701-1714) Dummer's War (1724-1726)	1734-1743 War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1742) King George's War (European War of Austrian Succession) (1744-1748)	1744-1773 French-Indian War (European Seven Years War) (1754-1763) Pontiac's Rebellion (1763)	1774-1787 American Revolution (1775-1783)
Civil War Cycle (1788-1865)	1788-1821 Whiskey Rebellion (1794) The Barbary Wars (1800-1815) War of 1812 (1812-1815) 1st Seminole War (1817)	1822-1837 2nd Seminole War (1835) The Alamo (Texas Independence) (1836)	1838-1859 Mexican War (Texas Annexation) (1846-1848) Wakarusa War(Kansas) (1856) Harper's Ferry (1859)	1860-1865 Civil War (1861-1865)
World War Cycle (1866-1944)	1866-1885 Little Big Horn (1876) Nez Perce War (1877)	1886-1909 Spanish American War (1898)	1910-1929 World War I (1914-1918)	1930-1944 World War II (1939-1945)
Present Cycle (1945-????)	1945-1964 Korean War (1950-1953) Cold War (1960?-1991)	1965-1979 Vietnam War (1954-1975)	1980-???? Grenada (1983) Gulf War (1991)	????-???? War on Terrorism? (2001-????)

Notes:

Keep checking back because this page is still under development. Click on the little "" information button to get more information on a subject. A few of the conflicts were right on the cusp of a generational turn or have spanned more than one generation. In such cases I have located the war with the earlier generation. War's and conflicts are always controversial. The two sides in a war are, by definition, at opposite ends of opinion. I try to present a variety of viewpoints in my choice of links and, obviously, none of them are necessarily my own. Additional War Sites: The History Guy, USAHistory.com, History Central, Military Analysis Network

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