Age of Sail
A commerce-raiding strategy used by a weaker naval power to attack enemy trade rather than seek decisive battle.
What is guerre de course?
The Union strategy designed to blockade the South, control the Mississippi River, divide the Confederacy, and strangle its economy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This treaty attempted to prevent another naval arms race by limiting capital ship tonnage among major naval powers.
Washington Naval Treaty
The first nuclear-powered submarine and the beginning of the nuclear Navy.
What is USS Nautilus?
Iraq’s invasion of this country in 1990 triggered the U.S.-led coalition response in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
What is Kuwait?
This act authorized the construction of the original six frigates, helping reestablish a federal Navy.
What is the Naval Act of 1794?
This iconic clash between the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia signaled the end of the Age of Sail
What is the Battle of Hampton Roads?
The U.S. Navy’s interwar planning framework for a possible Pacific war against Japan.
War Plan Orange
President Eisenhower’s cold war strategy against the Soviets which relied heavily on nuclear deterrence and the threat of overwhelming force in response to any communist aggression.
What is Massive Retaliation?
This terrorist attack against the United States, orchestrated by Osama Bin Laden, is considered the start of the Global War on Terror
What are the September 11 attacks or 9/11?
This decisive engagement between the British and French prevented British evacuation at Yorktown and helped force General Cornwallis's surrender
Battle of the Chesapeake
This ship was the U.S. Navy's first battleship and represented the transition toward a modern steel Navy.
What is USS Indiana?
This Pacific theater battle during WWII is often remembered as the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.”
What is the Battle of the Philippine Sea?
This 1964 incident led to expanded U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
This massive operation involved a combination of Air force strikes, Tomahawk strikes, and carrier-based aircraft strikes with the strategic objective of removing the Taliban from control in Afghanistan
What is Operation Enduring Freedom?
The first recorded submarine attack in history was conducted by this platform
The Turtle
Naval theorist who argued that national power depended on sea control, commerce, overseas bases, and decisive battle by a strong battle fleet.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
This 1945 battle was the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific War.
What is the Battle of Okinawa?
This submarine-launched ballistic missile gave the Navy a secure second-strike nuclear deterrent role.
What is Polaris?
Iraq was invaded during this US-led operation due to the suspicion they held Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) and were supporting terrorist groups
What is Operation Iraqi Freedom?
The Navy and Marine Corp's first major amphibious operation was carried out here
Vera Cruz
This global expedition, ordered by Theodore Roosevelt, demonstrated American naval strength, reassured allies, warned potential rivals, and signaled the United States’ arrival as a global power.
What is the Great White Fleet
This 1942 WWII battle made history as the first naval engagement where neither opposing fleet saw the other
What is the Battle of Coral Sea?
This brutal Korean War battle demonstrated the Marine Corps’ ability to conduct a fighting withdrawal under extreme conditions after Chinese forces surrounded U.N. troops in North Korea.
What is the Battle of Chosin Reservoir?
Osama Bin Laden was killed on May 2nd, 2011 during this operation
What is Operation Neptune Spear?