War history Flashcards by Jen Kennings | Brainscape

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Rommel/Montgomery 1942 Egypt WWII battle

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El Alamein

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1862 Maryland Civil War battle

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Antietam

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naval officer won Battle of Lake Erie 1813

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Oliver Hazard Perry

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sides in 1571 Battle of Lepanto

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Europe and Ottoman empire

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1967 Arab-Israeli war

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Six Day War

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1777 battle enabled British to take over Philadelphia

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Battle of Brandywine Creek

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1876 army defeat

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Custer’s Last Stand/Little Bighorn

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“mad” Revolutionary war general

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Anthony Wayne

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1942 air and sea battle US beat Japan

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Midway

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British field marshal led Allies on D-Day

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Montgomery

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Hitler’s second in command, head of Luftwaffe

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Hermann Goering

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failed Confederate assault during Gettysburg

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Pickett’s Charge

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island US invaded during Spanish-American war and still has

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Guam

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battleship where Japan signed WWII surrender

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USS Missouri

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led the charge of the light brigade

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Lord Cardigan

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charge of the light brigade battle and war

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Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War

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1954 battle French lost to Vietnminh

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Dien Bien Phu

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2 WWI battles named after French river

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Marne

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1800s armor-plated battleship

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ironclad

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highest British military award

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Victoria Cross

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Russia war with this country 1904-1905

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Japan

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1940 evacuation of French town WWII

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Dunkirk

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Swedish diplomat saved Jews in WWII, disappeared

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Wallenberg

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June 6, 1944 event

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D-Day

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1832 Indian war Lincoln was in

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Black Hawk War

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U2 pilot shot down, USSR hostage exchange 1962

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Francis Gary Powers

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Gettysburg Union commander

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Meade

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2 French WWI battles named after river

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Marne

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1940 British/Allied port evacuation

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Dunkirk

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Philippines WWII gulf

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Leyte

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1815 battle

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Waterloo

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Hitler’s failed coup 1923

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Beer Hall Putsch

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first Axis capital to fall (1944)

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Rome