War history Flashcards
Rommel/Montgomery 1942 Egypt WWII battle
El Alamein
1862 Maryland Civil War battle
Antietam
naval officer won Battle of Lake Erie 1813
Oliver Hazard Perry
sides in 1571 Battle of Lepanto
Europe and Ottoman empire
1967 Arab-Israeli war
Six Day War
1777 battle enabled British to take over Philadelphia
Battle of Brandywine Creek
1876 army defeat
Custer’s Last Stand/Little Bighorn
“mad” Revolutionary war general
Anthony Wayne
1942 air and sea battle US beat Japan
Midway
British field marshal led Allies on D-Day
Montgomery
Hitler’s second in command, head of Luftwaffe
Hermann Goering
failed Confederate assault during Gettysburg
Pickett’s Charge
island US invaded during Spanish-American war and still has
Guam
battleship where Japan signed WWII surrender
USS Missouri
led the charge of the light brigade
Lord Cardigan
charge of the light brigade battle and war
Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War
1954 battle French lost to Vietnminh
Dien Bien Phu
2 WWI battles named after French river
Marne
1800s armor-plated battleship
ironclad
highest British military award
Victoria Cross
Russia war with this country 1904-1905
Japan
1940 evacuation of French town WWII
Dunkirk
Swedish diplomat saved Jews in WWII, disappeared
Wallenberg
June 6, 1944 event
D-Day
1832 Indian war Lincoln was in
Black Hawk War
U2 pilot shot down, USSR hostage exchange 1962
Francis Gary Powers
Gettysburg Union commander
Meade
2 French WWI battles named after river
Marne
1940 British/Allied port evacuation
Dunkirk
Philippines WWII gulf
Leyte
1815 battle
Waterloo
Hitler’s failed coup 1923
Beer Hall Putsch
first Axis capital to fall (1944)
Rome