US History
The United States declared war on these three foreign countries in the 19th century.
Thomas Jefferson almost doubled the size of the United States with this acquisition of land from Napoleon’s France in 1803.
The Louisiana Purchase.
This summer month is named after the first emperor of the Roman Empire.
August.
This was the title of the de facto-leaders of Japan from 1185 to 1868. Established by the Samurai, the title loosely translates to “barbarian-quelling commander.”
Shogun
Operation Overlord was the code name for this large naval invasion off the French coast of Normandie on the 6th of June, 1944. What is it more popularly known as?
D-day.
The five “civilized” tribes are made up of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and this Florida tribe that fought the U.S. in the early 19th century.
The Seminole tribe.
This river makes up the border of Oklahoma and Texas and is named after the color of the water owing to it running through sandstone, siltstone, and shale coated in Ferric oxides.
The Red River.
This ancient capital, built on a lake, served as the heart of the Aztec Empire of pre-colonial Mexico.
Tenochtitlan
Temujin was the birth name of this famous emperor of a large Asiatic Empire.
Ghengis Khan.
These Battles saw the start of the American Revolution and “the shot heard around the world.” Named after the two towns where they took place in Massachusetts.
The Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Long before he became president, this founding father first rose to fame as the defense lawyer for the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
John Adams
This mountain range in western South Dakota and Wyoming is considered sacred by the Lakota Tribe. The discovery of gold in 1874 in this range led to the Great Sioux War where Custer and the 7th Calvary met their end in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
The Black Hills.
This ancient Greek historian is considered “The Father of History,” due to his extensive writings and account of the Greco-Persian Wars.
Herodotus.
This was the last of the Chinese Dynasties, having been abolished in 1912, but was actually made up of Ethnic Manchus.
The Qing Dynasty.
This 1916 battle saw intense fighting between the French Republic and the German Empire in Eastern France for 303 days. The French Slogan “Ils ne passeront pas!” (They Shall Not Pass!) came from the French defenders of this battle.
He was the principal of the Tuskegee Institute, now an HBCU, and was of the most prominent leaders of the African-American in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Booker T. Washington.
Two of the Four presidents on Mount Rushmore are from this state.
Virginia
1453 is a year marked chiefly by the fall of this large empire and the rise of the Ottoman Empire with the end of the siege of Constantinople.
The Byzantine Emprie.
This Era of Japanese history after the end of the Boshin War saw power restored to the emperor, massive modernization efforts, and the abolition of the shogunate and the Samurai.
The Meiji Era.
Executive Order 9981 abolished segregation in the United States Armed Forces and was signed on July 26th, 1948, by this president.
Harry S. Truman.
This amendment passed in 1917 and marked a ban on the sale and distribution of alcohol kickstarting the era of prohibition. It was repealed by the twenty-first amendment in 1933.
The Eighteenth Amendment.
Mexico claimed that this southern river served as the border with Texas after the Texas Revolution rather than the Texas-recognized border, the Rio Grande, to its south.
The Nueces River
The English’s unexpected victory, who were outnumbered two to one, against the French at this battle during the Hundred Years War is a matter of National pride in the UK.
Battle of Agincourt
Sygmund Rhee served as the first president of this East Asian Republic in 1948, though his administration was more despotic than democratic.
South Korea.
The U.S. used the code names Praire Fire and Daniel Booke to refer to recon and infiltration missions into these two border countries with Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Laos and Cambodia.