Army History

Question 1

What date was the Army flag dedicated?

Answer 1

14 June 1956 (it was approved 12 June 1956)

Question 2

What is the oldest part of our Army?

Answer 2

The Army National Guard (In December 1636, the Massachusetts Bay Colony organized America’s first militia regiments, some of which still serve today in the Army National Guard

Question 3

What did the U.S. Army begin?

Answer 3

June 14, 1775

Question 4

When was the start of the Revolutionary War?

Answer 4

19 April, 1775

Question 5

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

Answer 5

July 04, 1776

Question 6

The Army received it’s first real training from what former Prussian Officer at Valley Forge in the winter of 1778?

Answer 6

Baron Fredreich von Steuben

Question 7

What did Baron Fredriech von Steuben teach the Continental Army at Valley Forge?

Answer 7

simplified but effective version of the drill formations and movements of European armies.
•Proper care of equipment.
•The use of the bayonet (a weapon in which British superiority had previously been marked).
•He impressed upon officers their responsibility for taking care of the soldiers.
•Taught NCOs how to train and lead those soldiers.

Question 8

What is the name of the document that originally governed the United States and was later replaced by the “Constitution”?

Answer 8

The Articles of Confederation

Question 9

The nation nearly doubled in 1803 when it purchased a huge expanse of territory from France in what became known as what?

Answer 9

The Louisiana Purchase

Question 10

Who was one of the most prolific writers of the early 19th century and would be the author of “The Army Regulations of 1821”, the first written regulation by the Army since the publication of Baron von Steuben’s “Blue Book”?

Answer 10

General Winfield Scott

Question 11

What were some of the areas covered in “The Army Regulations of 1821”.

Answer 11

• The Hand Salute
• How to conduct a march
• How to make a good stew for the company

Question 12

What is the bloodiest war in American history?

Answer 12

The Civil War with the death of over 600,000 Americans on both sides

Question 13

When and where did the Civil War actually begin?

Answer 13

The Civil War being in April of 1861 when South Carolina militia forces fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor

Question 14

The Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run showed the need for more what?

Answer 14

More thorough preparation and for more soldiers

Question 15

President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation on 22 September 1862 freed the slaves in any areas still under Confederate control as of what date?

Answer 15

01 January 1863

Question 16

Congress authorized the creation of the Medal of Honor on what date?

Answer 16

12 July 1862

Question 17

Who received the first Medal of Honor ever awarded?

Answer 17

Private Jacob Parrott, Company K, 33d Ohio Volunteer Infantry on 25 March 1863

Question 18

The Battle of Gettysburg started on what date?

Answer 18

01 July 1863

Question 19

General Lee surrendered his Army on what date, marking the end of the Civil War?

Answer 19

09 april, 1865

Question 20

Who was the only female to receive the Medal of Honor?

Answer 20

Dr. Mary E. Walker

Question 21

Congress declared war on Spain on what date?

Answer 21

25 april, 1898

Question 22

When did World War I begin?

Answer 22

August 1914

Question 23

What event sparked the start of World War I?

Answer 23

A Bosnian separatist murdered the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife during a visit to Sarajevo

Question 24

On 23 February 1917 the British turned over to the US Government an intercepted note from the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico. In the note were instructions to offer Mexico an alliance in the event of war with the United States and promising that Mexico could regain what?

Answer 24

Texas, New Mexico and Arizona

Question 25

On what date did President Wilson ask Congress to declare war on Germany?

Answer 25

02 April, 1917

Question 26

The Armistice ended the fighting at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. Known for many years as Armistice Day, what is it now called in the United States?

Answer 26

Veteran’s Day

Question 27

One result of WW I was the creation of what International body roughly similar to the United Nations of today?

Answer 27

The League of Nations (it was envisioned as a forum where disputes could be settled peacefully

Question 28

National Defense Act of June 4, 1920 governed the organization and regulation of what until 1950?

Answer 28

The Army

Question 29

On what date did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?

Answer 29

07 December 1941

Question 30

The Women’s Army Corps was created in what year?

Answer 30

1943

Question 31

When was D Day?

Answer 31

06 June 1944

Question 32

Just after dawn on D Day, the 1st, 4th, and 29th Infantry Divisions assaulted what beaches?

Answer 32

Utah and Omaha

Question 33

President Truman authorized the use of two atomic bombs against Japan, destroying Hiroshima and Nagasaki on what dates?

Answer 33

Hiroshima – 06 August 1945

Nagasaki – 09 August 1945

Question 34

The National Security Act of 1947 was a sweeping reorganization of the US military. What did it establish?

Answer 34

• Department of Defense
• Army
• Navy
• Air Force

Question 35

What year marked the start of the Korean War?

Answer 35

1950

Question 36

In early of what year did President Johnson begin a process of escalation that put 184,000 American troops in South Vietnam by year’s end?

Answer 36

1965

Question 37

What is the longest war in U.S. History?

Answer 37

The Vietnam War

Question 38

In early of what year did President Johnson begin a process of escalation that put 184,000 American troops in South Vietnam by year’s end?

Answer 38

1965

Question 39

After a U.S. Marine was shot in 1989 in Panama, what Operation was launched?

Answer 39

Operation Just Cause

Question 40

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf and his Saudi counterpart sent their multinational ground forces across the border into Iraq in what in late February of what year?

Answer 40

1991

Question 41

On what date did the United States enormous support from the global community, respond to the attacks on September 11th, 2001 with attacks on the al-Qaeda network and the Taliban-controlled government of Afghanistan that was supporting it?

Answer 41

07 October, 2001

Question 42

With a coalition that included Great Britain, Australia, Poland and 44 other nations, the United States began offensive military operations to remove Saddam Hussein from power and liberate Iraq on what date?

Answer 42

20 March 2003

Question 43

When was Saddam Husein captured?

Answer 43

13 December 2003