Question: Who led American forces in this war?
Answer: General Elwell Otis

Question: How many troops did the US send to the Philippines?
Answer: 100,000

Question: Who was the rebel leader captured by US forces at the end of this war?
Answer: Emilio Aguinaldo

Question: How many battleships did the US Navy lose at Pearl Harbor?
Answer: eight

Question: How many Americans were killed during the Pearl Harbor attack?
Answer: 2,403

Question: What term describes the overall US strategy in the Pacific in WWII?
Answer: island hopping

Question: When did the Allies invade North Africa?
Answer: 1942

Question: Which two Japanese cities were hit with atomic bombs?
Answer: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question: What country supplied troops to North Korea during the Korean War?
Answer: the People's Republic of China

Question: What country supplied advisors, pilots, and war materiel to North Korea?
Answer: the Soviet Union

Question: What country was the principal ally of South Korea during the war?
Answer: the United States

Question: What organization did all combatants on both sides of the war belong to?
Answer: United Nations

Question: Which two countries were the primary fighters for territory in the Korean War?
Answer: North and South Korea

Question: When did North Korean forces initiate attacks on US and UN forces in the Korean war?
Answer: 1950

Question: What South Korean city did the US and ROK forces defend while building reinforcements?
Answer: Pusan

Question: What type of attack was used on Inchon?
Answer: amphibious invasion

Question: Chinese troops attacked the UN forces when they crossed what river? 
Answer: the Yalu River

Question: What general was fired for defying President Truman's containment strategy?
Answer: Douglas MacArthur

Question: What acronym was given to South Vietnamese troops?
Answer: RVN

Question: What acronym was given to North Vietnamese army regulars?
Answer: NVA

Question: By what name were fighters of the National Liberation Front known?
Answer: Viet Cong

Question: The VC operated in what geographic area?
Answer: South Vietnam

Question: The NVA was aided by military and financial aid from what two countries?
Answer: Soviet Union and China

Question: What two northern Vietnamese cities did the US avoid bombing at the outset of the war?
Answer: Hanoi and Haiphong

Question: What was the major supply trail for the Northern Vietnamese forces?
Answer: the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question: What US commander's strategy caused a loss of public opinion in the US?
Answer: William Westmoreland

Question: Who helped orchestrate bombing campaigns in the Vietnam War?
Answer: the White House

Question: When did the US start bombing Hanoi?
Answer: 1972

Question: When did fighting between Palestinians and the Lebanese begin?
Answer: 1983

Question: When did US marines land in Lebanon?
Answer: 1982

Question: When did a suicide bomber successfully attack the marine barracks in Lebanon?
Answer: October 23, 1983

Question: How many marines were killed in the attack?
Answer: 241

Question: When did President Reagan withdraw marines from Lebanon?
Answer: February 1984

Question: What is the main reason the US-led coalition won a decisive victory in the Persian Gulf War?
Answer: US technological superiority

Question: US airstrikes on Iraqi air defenses and command and control facilities began when?
Answer: on 17 January 1991

Question: What faults in the Iraqi forces led to their rapid defeat?
Answer: poor strategic and tactical leadership and low morale

Question: Who ordered Iraqi forces to hold their ground despite air bombardments?
Answer: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

Question: When did US ground forces attack Iraqi positions?
Answer: 24 February

Question: How long did ground combat operations last in the Persian Gulf War?
Answer: 100 hours

Question: Who ordered the cease-fire that effectively ended hostilities?
Answer: US President George H. W. Bush

Question: What did some US Politicians think Coalition forces should have been allowed to have done?
Answer: pressed on to Baghdad and removed Hussein from power

Question: Coalition nations did what with regards to invading Northern Iraq to precipitate the cease fire?
Answer: refused to participate

Question: Why did Coalition nations fear the removal of Hussein from power?
Answer: it would create a power vacuum and destabilize the region

Question: What term is given to the attempt by the US and her allies to fight global terrorist groups?
Answer: The War on Terrorism

Question: What religious groups are primarily targeted by this war?
Answer: Islamic Extremist

Question: What is one prominent, specific terrorist group targeted by the War on Terrorism?
Answer: al-Qaeda

Question: The War On Terrorism was caused by what event?
Answer: the September 11, 2001 attacks

Question: Since the start of the war on Terrorism, attacks on US service members have occurred in which two US states?
Answer: Arkansas and Texas

Question: What demand did the US make before invading Iraq in 2003?
Answer: that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein leave Iraq

Question: How many US troops participated in the invasion?
Answer: 250,000

Question: What country refused to allow forces to stage within it?
Answer: Turkey

Question: How long did the first phase of fighting last?
Answer: approximately three weeks

Question: How long did the US and its coalition partners have to occupy Iraq?
Answer: 9 years

Question: What declaration established a no-fly zone over Libya?
Answer: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973

Question: What is the name of the Libyan leader opposed by US and UN forces?
Answer: Muammar Gaddafi

Question: What was the name of the military action against Libya?
Answer: Operation Unified Protector

Question: What was the goal of this operation?
Answer: to protect civilians

Question: The Libyan conflict was primarily fought between which groups?
Answer: Gaddafi's loyalists and Libyan rebels fighting to depose him

Question: What was the biggest problem General Washington faced?
Answer: logistics

Question: Where were the two major surrenders of British forces in the war?
Answer: Saratoga (1777) and Yorktown (1781)

Question: What percentage of the Colonial population were loyal to the Crown?
Answer: 20%

Question: What did Washington do after defeating the British Army?
Answer: he retired quietly to his farm in Virginia.

Question: What advantage did Washington have over the British generals?
Answer: he had a better idea of how to win the war than they did

Question: Where was the Barbary Coast?
Answer: modern day Libya

Question: Who sent pirates to capture merchant ships?
Answer: The Berbers

Question: How did the United States initially deal with this problem?
Answer: The U.S. paid protection money until 1801

Question: What American naval officer led a raid that destroyed a captured American ship?
Answer: Stephen Decatur

Question: What city did William Eaton capture to end the first Barbary War?
Answer: Derna

Question: What was the Confederate overall strategy to win the Civil War?
Answer: getting Britain and France to intervene

Question: What was the Union's original war aim?
Answer: capturing the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia

Question: Who led the Confederate forces defending Richmond throughout the war?
Answer: Robert E. Lee

Question: How did the war effect both sides?
Answer: the material and personnel of the South were used up, while the North prospered

Question: When in the 19th century was the US navy modernized?
Answer: the 1880s

Question: What replaced the older sailing ships in the navy?
Answer: modern steel battleships

Question: By what name was the US fleet known at the start of the 20th Century?
Answer: the Great White Fleet

Question: Who ordered this fleet to sail around the world?
Answer: President Theodore Roosevelt

Question: What was the purpose of this order?
Answer: to demonstrate the Navy's capability to extend to the global theater