IMPORTANT BATTLES

IMPORTANT BATTLES

1.             Battle of Jhelum was fought between Alexander the Great and Raja Porus in 326 B.C. The latter was defeated.

2.             Mahumud Ghaznavi invaded on Somnath in 1025 A.D.

3.        Battle of Tarain was fought between Muhammad Ghouri and Prithvi Raj in 1192 A.D. Ghouri won the battle.

4.         First battle of Panipat was fought between Ibrahim Lodhi and Babur in 1526. Babur won the battle.

5.             Second battle of Panipat was fought in 1556. Akbar won the battle.

6.         Third battle of Panipat was fought between Ahmad Shah Abdali and Marahttas in 1760. Ahmed Shah defeated the latter.

7.             West Bank was occupied in 1967.

8.     Japan attacked Pearl Harbour located in Hawaii on 7 December 1941.

9.             Israel occupied Golan Heights from Syria.

10.        West Bank is located between Israel & Jordan.

11.        West Bank was occupied in 1967.

12.        Iran & UAE dispute over Persian Gulf islands, Greater & lesser       Tunbs.

13.        Sakhalin Island is dispute between Russia & Japan.

14.    In Battle of Sobraon, English defeated Sikhs and captured Lahore 14th February 1846.

15.   Nickname of Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 was Little Boy and on Nagasaki was Fat Man.

16.        The hundred-year war actually lasted for 114 years.

17.        Sir William Howard Russell was the first Great War correspondent.

18.     Hundred years war fought between France and Britain during 1338-1453.

19. Cease fire between Iran and Iraq took place in 1988, by the intervention of UN.

20.   The place named Normandy became worlds famous due to the D-Day landing during the Second World War on 6th June 1944. Normandy is located in France.

21.        Pearl Harbor incident took place on 7th Dec 1941.

22. In 1982 the Falklands war was fought between Britain and Argentina.

23.        Civil War of USA lasted from 1861-1865.

24.        The famous British Naval commander, who defected the French Naval Fleet at Nile in 1788 and at Trafalgar in 1805 was Horatio Nelson.

25.        Doer war fought between South Africa and British.

26.        Fighting broke out between Greeks and the Turks in July 1974.

27.  At the end of Second World War in 1945, Germany was divided among 4 major powers.

28.        In Opium war Britain fought against China.

29.        Gulf war Jan 1991 stopped in Feb 28, 1991.

30.        Iran-Iraq War was started in Sep 1980 and ended in Aug1988.

31.        Lloyd George of Great Britain represented in treaty of Versailles.

32.        Germany remained in grip of allied occupation from 1994 to 1952.

33.   The American general who acted as the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during the second world war was D.D Eisenhower. The criminals of the Second World War were trailed in the city of Nuremburg.

34.      Break up of Germany occurred on 1945 and merger on Oct 3, 1990.

35.        Iraq occupied Kuwait on 2^nd Aug 1990.

36.        USA dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945.

37.     First World War begun on 1914 A.D. and Second World War started in 1939 when Germany attacked on Poland, it is also considered as greatest war.

38.   Germans call a WW1 Sea fight Battle of Skagerrak what in UK: Battle of Jutland.

39.    Operation Thunderbolt was the nickname given to which raid Israeli raid on Entebbe.

40. In WW2 the Germans launched operation Bernhard - what Counterfeit British Notes.

41.   In WW2 what was the German codename for invasion of Russia- Barbarossa.

42.        Operation Dracula in WWII freed what city- Rangoon Burma.

43.     Which 19th century battle UK and USA fought after peace signed: Battle of New Orleans.

44.        Waterloo is now in Belgium.

45.   The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

46.        North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950.

47.        Darfur conflict is in Sudan.