This first major battle of the Civil War took place on July 21, 1861.
What is Bull Run, or Manassas?
100
This is the capitol of Austria.
What is Vienna?
100
This French teenage girl became an inspirational and successful military leader during the Hundred Years' War.
Who is Joan of Arc?
200
He was the commander of the Union Army that made a famous march through the heart of the South, destroying everything of material use, and burned the city of Atlanta.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
200
This large, navigable river flows north through western Germany, and then The Netherlands before emptying into the North Sea.
What is the Rhine River?
200
The Norman invasion of England in 1066 culminated in this battle, in which the English defenders were soundly defeated by William the Conqueror.
What is the Battle of Hastings?
300
The Civil War began when Confederate forces fired on this South Carolina fort in April of 1861.
What is Fort Sumpter?
300
This is the peninsula on which Spain and Portugal are located.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
300
He was the one of the political leaders of the French Revolution who, in order to achieve his goals, ordered the executions of thousands of his countrymen before he himself was beheaded in 1794.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
400
This was one of the four slave states (known as "border states") that did not secede from the Union.
What is Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky or Missouri?
400
This is the capital of Argentina.
What is Buenos Aires?
400
The assassination of Austrian-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in this city in 1914 was the incident that sparked Word War I.