Good wars for a class

[Tehcumseh]

Hello, I'm currently working on making a "War" class in my high school(I'm a student[junior year]) and i have to work with the History teachers to write a curriculum for the class and i was wondering what do you guys think are some good wars to study? and it can be any wars featuring any country's so just let me know
Thanks 

[Pac-Fish]

Well if you want detail and depth talk about those obscure ones but if u want interest and ppl not falling asleep talk about the regular well known ones. Which country? Which era? Be specific.

[Tehcumseh]

This class is still in the works so it has lots of room for being specific and This is an elective so people will only take it if they want to learn about war so it shouldn't bore them

[Pac-Fish]

Which country

[Tehcumseh]

Any country, Any Era, ANYTHING!!!! It's a class of war and yes i know there has been too much war to fit into one class but i am looking for ones that you people think is cool, interesting and people will be intrigued to learn more
 

[Pac-Fish]

I prefer WW2 but again, that's just me. You could literally spend years learning about all the aspects of WW2

[neosdark]

I specialize in WWII myself, and if you would like my good sir I can send over my Powerpoints of the Weaponry of WWI and WWII (in which case it is my due hope that you aren't French).

As for good wars to teach may I suggest the following:

1) The Three Kingdoms of China (Late Han Era)
2) The Gallic Wars
3) The Merovingian Campaigns of the Early Middle Ages
4) The Polish-Ukrainian War of 1918 and 1919 (quite important despite the obscurity)
5) Obviously WWI, WWII, the French Revolution
6) The Russian Civil War
7) Greco-Turkish War of 1919-21
The Hundred Years War
9) Franco-Prussian War
10) War of the League of Cambrai

Should I keep going?   

[GodlikeDennis]

The Persian wars
Peloponnesian war
Pyrrhic war
Punic wars
Warring states period (China)
Muslim conquests
Mongolian conquests
Sengoku Jidai (Japan)
English civil war
Great Northern War
American civil war
Spanish civil war
Winter war

[Dann88]

Warring states period and One hundres years are nightmares, don't fall for GLD and Neo's traps
Some of those wars covering a lot of campaigns which is a bad choice, just aware that

[Tehcumseh]

We're thinking of doing a WW2 only class so if you could send me the powerpoint of the WW2 Weapons that would be Great and o im not french im English

[neosdark]

We're thinking of doing a WW2 only class so if you could send me the powerpoint of the WW2 Weapons that would be Great and o im not french im English

Wonderful, please be so kind as to PM me your email then and I would be quite happy to send you my Powerpoint. Keep in mind that it is in many ways a work in progress and as I add more and more to it becomes more and more complex. I would gladly send them over with each new version, if you so like.

P.S. I include a lot of experimental weaponry because I believe it is important to see what was going on and what was being created.

[Pac-Fish]

Why not take a visit to the WW2 discussion thread? Plenty of material there

[Otto Halfhand]

A list for overviews of different kinds of conflicts

2nd Punic War - imperialism
Korean Conflict - war of exhaustion
7 days War, 1967 - Blitkrieg
War of the Roses - Civil War
2nd Persian Gulf War - Urban Warfare
War of Jenkins Ear - Sheer Stupidity

A global War would be a good addition as well. Your choice.

[Pac-Fish]

War of Jenkins Ear - Sheer Stupidity

Even if you don't pick this war you must admire it's description

[neosdark]

Grachasaurus here is the WWII Powerpoint in a zip file with the WWI one thrown in for good measure. Any of you gents are welcome to use it, almost all the files are from the interwebs with special thanks to Robotnik and Sommar for some of the more interesting photos in them.

EDIT: Also any opinions on the Powerpoints are welcome