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 1646, the Massachusetts Bay Colony organized America’s first militia regiments, some of which still serve today)

Question 3

What date did the U.S. Army begin?

Answer 3

14 June 1775

Question 4

Who was the first commander in Chief of the Continental Army?

Answer 4

George Washington

Question 5

When was the start of the Revolutionary War?

Answer 5

19 April 1775

Question 6

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

Answer 6

4 July 1776

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Baron Fredreich Von Steuben

Question 8

What did Baron Von Steuben teach the Contintal Army at Valley Forge?

Answer 8

A 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 soldiers

Taught NCOs how to train and lead those soldiers

Question 9

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

Answer 9

The Articles of Confederation

Question 10

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

Answer 10

The Louisiana Purchase

Question 11

Who was one of the most prolific writers of the early 19th century and would be the author of “The Army Regulations of 1831”, the first written regulation by the Army since the publication of Baron van Steuben’s “Blue Book”?

Answer 11

General Winfield Scott

Question 12

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

Answer 12

The hand salute

How to conduct a March

How to make a good stew for the company

Question 13

What was the bloodiest war in American history

Answer 13

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

Question 14

When and where did the Civil War actually begin?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

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

Answer 15

More thorough preparation and for more soldiers

Question 16

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

Answer 16

1 January 1863

Question 17

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

Answer 17

12 July 1862

Question 18

Who received the first Medal of Honor?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

The Battle of Gettysburg started on what date?

Answer 19

1 July 1863

Question 20

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

Answer 20

9 April 1865

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Dr. Mary E. Walker

Question 22

Congress declared war on Spain on what date?

Answer 22

25 April 1898

Question 23

When did World War I begin?

Answer 23

August 1914

Question 24

What event sparked the start of World War I?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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 noteworthy instructions to offer Mexico an alliance in the event of war with the United States and promising that Mexico could regain what?

Answer 25

Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona

Question 26

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

Answer 26

2 April 1917

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Veteran’s Day

Question 28

One result of WWI was the creation of what international body roughly similar the United Nations of today?

Answer 28

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

Question 29

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

Answer 29

The Army

Question 30

On what date did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?

Answer 30

7 December 1941

Question 31

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

Answer 31

1943

Question 32

When was D Day?

Answer 32

6 June 1944

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Utah and Omaha

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Hiroshima - 6 August 1945

Nagasaki - 9 August 1945

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Department of Defense

Army

Navy

Air Force

Question 36

What year marked the start of the Korean War?

Answer 36

1950

Question 37

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

Answer 37

1965

Question 38

What is the longest war in US History?

Answer 38

The Vietnam War

Question 39

After a US 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 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 Sept. 11, 2001 with attacks on the al-Qaeda network and the Taliban- controlled gov of Afghanistan that was supporting it?

Answer 41

7 October 2001

Question 42

With a coalition that included Great Briain, 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 Hussein captured?

Answer 43

13 December 2003