Punic Wars
What is Carthage?
This very famous French emperor WAS average height for the time...
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This Southern state was the first to secede from the union in December 1860...
What is South Carolina?
This telegram sent from Germany to Mexico was the final spark needed to push the USA into war against the Central Powers...
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
This invasion would come to be the largest amphibious assault ever carried out...
What was Operation Overlord/D-day?
This 1949 alliance formed the basis of Western collective security during the Cold War...
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
During this battle, in what is largely considered Hannibal's masterpiece, Hannibal destroyed 60k - 80k Roman soldiers by encircling the larger Roman force with an inferior Carthaginian force...
What was the Battle of Cannae?
This battle in 1805 would see Admiral Nelson wreck the combined Franco-Spanish fleet, securing the waves for Britain...
What is the Battle of Trafalgar?
This Union army was the primary field army of the Union and would see commanders like McClellan, Hooker, Meade, and Grant in or at the Helm...
What was the Army at the Potomac?
This major offensive launched by the Allies in 1916 on the Western Front would result in over 1 million casualties and minimal territorial changes...
What is the Battle of the Somme?
The 588th Night Bomber Regiment is also known as...
What are the Night Witches?
This 1979 Invasion would mark the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union...
What was the Soviet-Afghan War?
This extremely strategic island in the Mediterranean saw the bulk of the land combat during the First Punic War...
What is Sicily?
This 1805 land Battle won by Napoleon against a combined Austrian and Russian army to end the War of the 3rd Coalition is often cited as his greatest victory...
What is the Battle of Austerlitz?
This plane described the Union's strategic blockade of Southern ports and control of the Mississippi...
What was the Anaconda Plan?
This famous exact date and time would be the official end of WW1...
When was 11/11/18 at 11:00am?
This act passed in 1941 allowed the U.S. to send military aid to allied nations prior to officially joining the war...
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This 1956 event saw a Soviet invasion of an Eastern Bloc nation following a popular uprising...
What was the Hungarian Revolution?
Rome fully adopted this cautious delaying strategy, named after its general, against Hannibal after the Battle of Cannae...
What is the Fabian Strategy?
This British commander became famous for defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo...
Who is the Duke of Wellington?
The siege and eventual capture of this city along the Mississippi River would cut the Confederacy in two and grant the Union full control over said river...
What is Vicksburg?
This treaty officially ended the war between Germany and Soviet Russia...
What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
This person is the most decorated American soldier of WW2...
Who was Audie Murphy?
This standoff in 1961 happened in Berlin and involved Soviet and American tanks facing off for 16 hours...
What was the Checkpoint Charlie Standoff?
This Naval engagement during the First Punic War, (If counted via combants) is the largest Naval Battle in History...
What is the Battle of Cape Ecnomus?
This battle during the Napoleonic Wars would be defined by this famous quote, "I lost the battle at 5, and won it back at 7!
What is the Battle of Marengo?
This siege, lasting for over 9 months would lead to the fall of the Confederate capital and would put Lee on the run...
What was the Siege of Petersburg?
This engagement fought during the Battle of the Somme would see the first implementation of tanks on the side of the Entente in a real battle...
What is the Battle of Fleurs-Courcelette?
This failed uprising in 1944 was the single largest military effort taken by any European resistance movement...
What was the Warsaw Uprising?
This 1980s scandal involved the secret sale of weapons to a Middle Eastern nation under embargo, with proceeds illegally diverted to fund Nicaraguan rebels...
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
The famous phrase "Carthago Delenda Est" (Carthage must be destroyed) is attributed to this Roman statesman...
Who is Cato the Elder?
This battle in 1813, often called the "Battle of the Nations" was one of the largest battles of all the Napoleonic wars and a huge defeat for Napoleon...
What is the Battle of Leipzig?
The deadliest day in American history, the Battle of Antietam also went by this name...
What is the Battle of Sharpsburg?
This overseas naval Battle destroyed pretty much all of the German East Asian Fleet and ended German surface naval presence abroad...
What was the Battle of the Falkland Islands?
This amphibious assault in 1942 would constitute the first Allied landing in France...
What was the Dieppe Raid?
This 1972 arms control agreement between the USA and USSR limited nuclear weapons...
What was SALT I? (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)