Question: What early 20th century conflict sent tens of thousands of refugees to the US?
Answer: The Mexican Revolution

Question: US forces were sent to occupy what Mexican City during the Revolution?
Answer: Veracruz

Question: What was the name of the Mexican general who attacked an American city in New Mexico?
Answer: Pancho Villa

Question: What foreign organization encouraged Villa's guerilla war against the US?
Answer: The German Secret Service

Question: What US General led troops against Villa?
Answer: General John J. Pershing

Question: What general sentiment was the result of losses in World War I?
Answer: isolationism

Question: Congress refused to allow the US to join what organization?
Answer: the League of Nations

Question: What legislation was passed to discourage the country from getting involved in a foreign war?
Answer: Neutrality Acts

Question: Which US President sought to circumvent Neutrality acts to aid Britain?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question: What was the name of the 1940 program to send arms to Britain?
Answer: the Lend-Lease Act

Question: How many Americans served in the military in World War II?
Answer: Over 16 million

Question: How many American service personnel died in World War II?
Answer: 400,000

Question: What other country besides the United States became a super power after World War II?
Answer: the Soviet Union

Question: What name is given to those Americans who served in World War II?
Answer: the Greatest Generation

Question: Both during and after the conclusion of  World War II, the United States formed a firm alliance with what country?
Answer: Britain

Question: The policy of containment in Asia was aimed at what ideology?
Answer: Communism

Question: What was the psychological turning point of the war?
Answer: The Tet Offensive

Question: When did this offensive take place? 
Answer: 1968

Question: When were US forces withdrawn from Vietnam?
Answer: 1973

Question: The policy of supplying arms and war materiel for the Vietnamese to fight their own war was called what?
Answer: "Vietnamization,"

Question: When did Britain declare martial law in a North American colony?
Answer: 1774

Question: What colony was placed under martial law?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: What were the first conflicts of the American Revolution?
Answer: Lexington and Concord

Question: Who appointed Washington to serve as commander in chief?
Answer: The Continental Congress

Question: When did the colonies declare independence?
Answer: July 4, 1776

Question: What quality made the US only a minor military power after the Revolutionary War?
Answer: having only a modest army

Question: Why was the US military so small initially?
Answer: A traditional distrust of standing armies

Question: The founding fathers had faith in what military groups?
Answer: local militia

Question: What did early American leaders worry a large standing army would involve America in?
Answer: foreign wars

Question: Early leaders also feared a large army would allow what internal conflict to take place?
Answer: a domestic tyrant to seize power

Question: What two tribes particularly resisted being confined to reservations?
Answer: the Sioux and Comanche

Question: What caused a spike in difficulties between settlers and indigenous peoples on the western plains after the Civil War?
Answer: population expansion, railroad construction, and the disappearance of the buffalo herds

Question: Who were two of the military leaders tasked with overseeing American policy of putting Indians on reservations?
Answer: William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan

Question: When was the Battle of Little Big Horn fought?
Answer: 1876

Question: What US officer led the troops who were destroyed at Little Big Horn?
Answer: Col. George Armstrong Custer

Question: What naval officer developed new doctrines for gunnery at the turn of the 20th Century?
Answer: Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske

Question: What aircraft did Fiske call for the development of?
Answer: torpedo plane

Question: What assistant naval secretary did Fiske serve under?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question: When did Fiske propose his reforms to the way the Navy operated?
Answer: 1913–15

Question: What was the name given to American soldiers in Europe in 1918?
Answer: doughboys

Question: What was the official name of the American army that went to fight in Europe in 1918?
Answer: American Expeditionary Forces

Question: Who had overall command of the American forces in Europe?
Answer: John J. Pershing

Question: When did fighting on the western front end?
Answer: November 11, 1918

Question: What was the name of the conditional surrender that ended fighting on the western front?
Answer: the Armistice

Question: What was the American priority in mobilization prior to entering World War II?
Answer: air power

Question: When did the US officially enter World War II?
Answer: 8 December 1941

Question: What event led to America entering the war?
Answer: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Question: At the start of the conflict with the Allies, what did Japan do?
Answer: seized American, Dutch, and British possessions across the Pacific and Southeast Asia

Question: What country served as an American forward base to wage war with Japan?
Answer: Australia

Question: When was the Vietnam War fought?
Answer: between 1959 and 1975

Question: Besides Vietnam, what other countries saw fighting in this war?
Answer: Cambodia and Laos

Question: What was the name of the strategic bombing of North Vietnam?
Answer: Operation Rolling Thunder

Question: When did American military involvement ramp up in Vietnam?
Answer: 1964

Question: What congressional declaration gave President Johnson authority to send troops to Vietnam?
Answer: the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question: What conflict was supposed to have provided Iraqi forces with battle experience?
Answer: 8 years of war with Iran

Question: Some observers thought that the Persian Gulf War would have tank battles similar to what war?
Answer: North Africa during World War II

Question: What equipment did the Iraqi army possess?
Answer: late model Soviet tanks and jet fighters

Question: Prior to the Persian Gulf War, where and when was the last major American military conflict?
Answer: Vietnam nearly 20 years earlier

Question: What problem did the Iraqi forces have?
Answer: the antiaircraft weapons were crippled

Question: What organization captured significant segments of Iraq and Syria?
Answer: ISIL

Question: What legal ethos does ISIL operate under?
Answer: Sharia law

Question: What actions did ISIL take against Western journalists and aid workers?
Answer: kidnapping and decapitation

Question: How did the US intervene against ISIL?
Answer: airstrikes in Iraq over ISIL held territories

Question: What was the goal of US and coalition airstrikes in Syria?
Answer: degrading and destroying ISIL and Al-Nusra-held territory

Question: Where was the band Blue Cheer from?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: What classic song did Blue Cheer cover?
Answer: "Summertime Blues"

Question: What was the hit off Steppenwolf's self-titled debut lp?
Answer: "Born to Be Wild"

Question: What movie featured that Steppenwolf single?
Answer: Easy Rider

Question: The lyrics to "Born To Be Wild" contain the first reference to what hard rock style?
Answer: heavy metal

Question: The band Rush is what nationality?
Answer: Canadian

Question: What are the first three Rush albums?
Answer: Rush, Fly by Night and Caress of Steel

Question: What nationality was Thin Lizzy?
Answer: Irish

Question: What was Thin Lizzy's hit single?
Answer: "The Boys Are Back in Town"

Question: The Scorpions hailed from what country?
Answer: Germany

Question: What is the title of Bon Jovi's third lp?
Answer: Slippery When Wet

Question: How many copies did this record sell?
Answer: 12 million

Question: What was the band Europe's international hit?
Answer: The Final Countdown