American Civil War
This Southern state was the first to secede from the union in December 1860...
What is South Carolina?
This type of warfare dominated the Western Front, creating a deadly stalemate...
What is Trench Warfare?
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?
What was the annexation of Crimea?
This Soviet rifle inspired by the STG 44 is one of the most recognizable weapons ever produced...
What is the AK-47?
This ancient Chinese general is known for writing the Art of War...
Who was Sun Tzu?
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?
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 1979 Invasion would mark the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union...
What was the Soviet-Afghan War?
This ongoing conflict drew in multiple global powers and became one of the deadliest civil wars of the 21st century...
What is the Syrian Civil War?
This revolutionary weapon, first used in late 19th century colonial conflicts, completely changed war and would bring on mass amounts of casualties during its first major usage in WW1...
What is the Maxim gun?
This famous Confederate general led the Army of Northern Virginia, the most powerful field army of the Confederacy...
Who was Robert E. Lee?
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 disastrous campaign championed by Winston Churchill aimed to take control over the Turkish straits and open the Ottoman capital to bombardment...
What is the Gallipoli campaign?
This massive Soviet operation in 1944 destroyed the German Army Group Center, cutoff Army Group North, and caused the surrender and subsequent switching of sides of Romania...
What is Operation Bagration?
This 1973 conflict triggered a Cold War standoff and would cause the 1973 Oil crisis in response to western aid to one of the nations apart of this conflict...
What was the Yom Kippur War?
This war in the early 90's followed the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait...
What was the First Gulf War?
This was the name of the German code machine used during WWII, later cracked by the Allies...
What was the Enigma machine?
This Roman General lead the Roman legions in Spain and would deliver Hannibal's final defeat at Zama...
Who is Scipio Africanus?
This plane described the Union's strategic blockade of Southern ports and control of the Mississippi...
What was the Anaconda Plan?
This battle would see the first large-scale use of poison gas on the Western Front...
What is the 2nd battle of Ypres?
This failed Allied operation aimed to capture bridges in the Netherlands to cross the Rhine river by using paratroopers...
What was Operation Market Garden?
This 1956 event saw a Soviet invasion of an Eastern Bloc nation following a popular uprising...
What was the Hungarian Revolution?
This operation was the initial U.S. invasion of Afghanistan following 9/11...
What was Operation Enduring Freedom?
This massive American Cold War-era bomber could carry nuclear weapons and is still in service over 73 years later...
What is the B-52 Stratofortress?
This Russian Marshal commanded the Red Army during the Battle of Moscow, Battle of Berlin and accepted Germany's final surrender...
Who was Georgy Zhukov?
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 lesser-known campaign of WW1 was led by German commander Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck who tied up hundreds of thousands of allied soldiers for the duration of the war...
What is the East African Campaign?
This failed uprising in 1944 was the single largest military effort taken by any European resistance movement...
What was the Warsaw Uprising?
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 conflict arose after Russia began militarily supporting groups in South Ossetia and Abkhazia...
What is the Russian Invasion of Georgia?
This WWII piece of German equipment was nicknamed "Hitler's Buzzsaw" for its high rate of fire...
What was the MG 42?
This British Admiral was the genius behind Trafalgar and was killed during the battle...
Who is Admiral Horatio Nelson?
During this Battle, Lee divided his smaller force while facing a much larger force led by Hooker and Lee would rout Hooker's force while winning the Battle...
What was the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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 bombing in 1945 by the USA destroyed over 100,000 lives in one night in a non-nuclear attack...
What was the firebombing of Tokyo?
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?
This elite Navy SEAL mission in 2011 successfully located and killed Osama Bin Laden in his compound in Pakistan...
What was Operation Neptune Spear?
During the Cold War, this high-altitude U.S. spy plane was used extensively to spy on the USSR and her allies before the SR-71 replaced it...
What is the U-2 Spy Plane?
This group of female pilots in Russia became famous for flying during the night and bombing out German positions in Biplanes...
Who are the Night Witches?
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?
These border skirmishes between Japan and the USSR would irreversibly change Japanese strategy as their losses made them favor the southern strategy of striking the European colonial powers to acquire resources...
What are the Battles of Khalkhin Gol?
This operation was a failed CIA-backed invasion attempt at a Cuban beach by anti-Castro exiles and would come to be known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion...
What is Operation Zapata?
This US operation in 1993 Somalia became the basis for Black Hawk Down...
What is Operation Gothic Serpent?
This Cold War nuclear artillery piece, tested in 1953, was the first and only cannon in the USA to have fired an Atomic shell...
What is Atomic Annie?
This French Emperor took power during a Coup d'etat, oversaw the modernization of the French state, declared on the Prussian Empire to reassert dominance, and WAS over average height for the time...
Who was Napoleon III?