World Wars
This dramatic cliffside on the Normandy coast was scaled by U.S. Army Rangers on D-Day to neutralize German artillery.
Pointe du Hoc
This physicist is not only famous for his involvement in the Manhattan Project but also for retelling this famous quote from the Bhagavad Ghita saying, “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Robert Oppenheimer
This Hunkpapa Lakota leader, born Tatanka Iyotake, helped defeat Lt. Col. George Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
Sitting Bull
Out of all the civil rights organizations, this one is famous for advocating the belief that African communities should arm themselves against white supremacist law enforcement and federal government officials.
Black Panthers
Across the American midwestern frontier after the Civil War there was a gang that robbed trains, and stagecoaches, led by this man who was considered a bushwacker.
Jesse James
The result of this aerial and naval battle was that Japan was on the defensive for the rest of the war.
Battle of Midway
This industrialist became the world's first billionaire in 1916 after creating a near monopoly on oil which the country has been relatively new to.
John D. Rockefeller
Between 1831 and 1850, this event led to the forced movement of over 60,000 Native Americans from the ‘five civilized tribes’ to reservations in states like Oklahoma. This led to illness and death, which caused over 13 to 16,000 deaths.
Trail of Tears
This civil rights leader has famously stated, “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."
Malcom X
This gang was infamous for traveling and robbing stores and banks around the Midwest and the South, before getting ambushed and gunned down by law enforcement in Louisiana on May 23, 1934.
Bonnie and Clyde
DAILY DOUBLE
On May 7, 1915, a German U-20 submarine torpedoed this ocean liner off the coast of Ireland; among the 1,198 dead were 128 Americans, which resulted in America becoming more willing to go to World War I.
RMS Lusitania
This woman developed advanced mathematics while working on the Apollo Projects, specifically Apollo 11.
Katherine Johnson
The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Senga, and Tuscarora nations joined forces to create a new alliance, established as a collective defense and order against the influence of European nations. What was this new confederacy called?
Iroquois
The Seneca Falls Convention, which was the first gathering of advocates for women's suffrage, took place in this New York town.
Seneca Falls
In 1876, this frontier lawman and gambler was shot from behind while playing poker in Deadwood, holding what became known as the “dead man’s hand.”
Wild Bill Hickok
After the dropping of the nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the emperor Hirohito officially signed for surrender on this United States battleship.
USS Missouri
This Serbian immigrant developed the foundations for electrical power grids, induction motors, and even innovated in electrical coils. He is also famous for his professional and public rivalry and contempt with Thomas Edison.
Nikola Tesla
This Lakota warrior is famous for not only fierce attacks at the Battle of Little Bighorn but also the subject of a famous statue still being built in South Dakota today.
Crazy Horse
This Missouri-born slave was a scientist and educator. They promoted crop rotation and developed uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.
George Washington Carver
Founded after prospector Ed Schieffelin struck silver in 1877, this Arizona boomtown became famous for a 30-second 1881 gunfight involving Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.
Tombstone
This group of United States Marines utilized their unique languages by sending near uncrackable codes throughout the Pacific theater, helping in operations such as Guadalcanal, Peleliu, and Iwo Jima.
Navajo Code-talkers
She became the first Millionaire who was a woman and a person of color in the early 1900s, who innovated in makeup and hair products primarily for black women.
Madam C.J. Walker
DAILY DOUBLE
Throughout the late 1800s, this ritual was prohibited by the U.S. government for Indigenous Nations in the West, who used it not only for the bison to come back to the land but also for the white man to be expelled.
The Ghost Dance
This woman was instrumental in the revolution, who was the first female newspaper publisher in the colonies and printed the Declaration of Independence for the public.
Mary Goddard
Out of all the bootleggers during the prohibition, this German-born lawyer was referred to as the “King Of Bootleggers” who made millions in today's money, surpassing most bootleggers and mobs such as Al Capone.
George Remus