Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
What is 1917?
The U.S. entered World War II after this surprise attack in Hawaii.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The Korean War began on this year.
What is 1950?
He was the Communist leader of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The dictator of Iraq captured by U.S. forces in 2003.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
This northern battle was considered a turning point in favor of the Union in 1863.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
These were the all black regiment that fought bravely and helped win San Juan Hill.
Who are the Buffalo Riders?
The assassination of this person sparked a domino effect that led to a world war within a thirty-day period!
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This group of Native American soldiers used their language as a code; never broken by the enemy.
Who are the Navajo Code Talkers?
He was the president who sent U.S. forces to push back North Korea from South Korea.
Who is President Truman?
This is the agreement in 1954 where France agreed to leave Vietnam and the country of Vietnam would be split at the 17* Parallel.
What is the Geneva Accords?
The majority of the terrorists, including Osama Bin Laden, were from this country.
What is Saudi Arabia?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This treaty formally ended the Spanish-American War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This act required American men to register for military service.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This secret project, coordinated by U.S. and British intelligence, developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
He was the General who wanted to use nuclear weapons on China and was later fired for insubordination.
Who is General MacArthur?
He was the leader of South Vietnam. He was not nice to the Buddhist population, even though they were the majority.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
This group was removed from power in Afghanistan by the US at the start of the conflict, but came back to power immediately after U.S. forces left the country.
What is the Taliban?
This declared all slaves in rebelling territories free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This president annexed Hawaii just in time for the Spanish-American War.
Who is William McKinley?
These two acts limited freedom of speech during Woodrow Wilson's administration of the war.
What is the Espionage Act and the Sedition Act?
This battle was the last major push, offensive by the Germans on the Western Front in an attempt to push Allied Forces out of Europe and force a peace negotiation.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
The U.S. fought under the flag of this INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION.
What is the United Nations?
This event, announced by LBJ, led to an escalation of American involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
What is Kuwait?
This is the place where Ulysses Grant conducted a siege that lasted over forty days, leading the town to eventually surrender, ultimately cutting the South in two.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
Name all three of the territories the U.S. gained as a result of the Spanish-American War.
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
What are the 14 Points?
This was the operation name for the Allied Forces to invade the beaches at Normandy.
What is Operation Overlord?
The Korean War ended with this type of agreement, not a peace treaty. Officially ending the conflict in a stalemate with no clear winner.
What is an armistice?
This surprise attack on a Vietnamese holiday by the North Vietnamese forces in 1968 turned U.S. public opinion against the war, adding to the credibility gap.
What is the Tet Offensive?
Name of the operation led by American forces to push back an Iraqi invasion of a smaller, weaker country in the Middle East in 1991
What is Operation Desert Storm?
He was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This amendment stated that the U.S. had no intention of taking political control of Cuba after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Teller Amendment?
This is the treaty formally ending WWI, but would be considered a major cause of WWII.
What is the Treaty of Versaille?
This was the Executive Order signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to send Japanese-Americans to internment camps for National Security.
What is Executive Order 9066?
He was the dictator of North Korea who invaded South Korea to unify the Korean peninsula under Communism.
Who is Kim Il-Sung?
This treaty was the end of the Vietnam War for the United States. The fall of Saigon took place two years later.
What are the Paris Peace Accords?
This operation marked the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003
What is Operation Iraqi Freedom?
Who is Tecumseh Sherman?
This amendment, later added, stated that the U.S. had no intention of taking political control of Cuba after the Spanish-American War BUT would be allowed a base in Cuba and Cuba could not have too much outside influence.
This British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, within 18 minutes, influencing American public opinion about the war.
What is the Lusitania?
He was the Japanese Admiral who orchestrated the Pearl Harbor attack and the attack on Midway.
Who is Admiral Yamamoto?
What is the name of the border between North Korea and South Korea, located on the 38th Parallel?
This Act limited the president's power to commit U.S. troops without congressional approval as a result of Nixon's expansion of the war into Cambodia.
What is the War Powers Act?
The military campaign in Afghanistan was called this.