Type of warfare practiced by American leaders such as Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter that proved to be an advantage over the British in the American Revolution
What is guerilla warfare?
100
Site where the first shots of the Civil War were fired
What is Fort Sumter?
100
US president who gained fame leading the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100
President of the US who ordered the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945
Who is Harry Truman?
100
Name for the South Vietnamese Communists against whom US forces fought in the Vietnam War
What is the Vietcong?
200
War during which Francis Scott Key wrote the poem "The Star-Spangled Banner"
What is the War of 1812?
200
Official name for the eleven states that seceded from the Union, causing the Civil War
What is the Confederate States of America (CSA)?
200
President of the US during the Spanish-American War
Who is William McKinley?
200
The "Big Three" leaders who held conferences throughout WWII to discuss war strategy and post-war peace plans
Who are Franklin Roosevelt (US), Winston Churchill (Britain), and Joseph Stalin (USSR)?
200
Capital of South Vietnam that fell to the Communists in 1975, marking the official end to combat in the Vietnam War
What is Saigon?
300
River over which the US and Mexico battled to become the official southern boundary of Texas
What is the Rio Grande?
300
Union general who led the "March to the Sea" across Georgia
Who is William T. Sherman?
300
The use of exaggerated and sensationalized reporting by newspapers to attract readers that became a major cause of the Spanish-American War
What is "yellow journalism"?
300
Line of latitude where Korea was divided into North and South after WWII and that remains a demilitarized zone between the two nations today
What is the 38th parallel?
300
Leader of Communist North Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
400
Region of the US still occupied by British forces and their Native American allies around which much of the early fighting of the War of 1812 took place
What is the Northwest Territory?
400
Site where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant to end the Civil War
What is Appomattox Court House, VA?
400
A 1917 German telegram proposing an alliance with Mexico against the US that was intercepted, reported to the American public, and became a reason for the US to enter WWI against Germany
What is the Zimmermann note/telegram?
400
US general who headed the occupation of Japan after WWII and commanded UN peacekeeping forces during the Korean War before being fired by President Truman in 1951
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
400
Code name for US bombing campaign against North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail begun in 1965
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
500
German soldiers hired by the British to fight against Americans during the Revolutionary War
What are Hessians?
500
President Lincoln's primary goal in waging the Civil War (purpose was most eloquently expressed in his Gettysburg Address)
What is to preserve/save the Union?
500
Type of fighting that dominated WWI and left both sides mired in a stalemate until fresh US soldiers entered the war in 1917
What is trench warfare?
500
Where over 200,000 Japanese-Americans were detained throughout much of WWII due to anti-Japanese feelings following the attack on Pearl Harbor
What are internment camps?
500
President Nixon's policy of gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam and turning over of the war to South Vietnamese forces