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