IMPORTANT BATTLES

·   Battle of Jhelum was fought b/w Alexandar the Great and Raja Porus in 326 B.C. The latter was defeated.

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

·   Battle of Tarain was fought b/w Mohd: Ghouri and Prithvi Raj in 1192 A.D. The former won the battle.

·   First battle of Panipat was fought b/w Ibrahim Lodhi and Babur in 1526. Babur won the battle.

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

·   Third battle of Panipat was fought b/w Ahmad Shah Abdali and Marahttas in 1760. Ahmed Shah defeated the latter.

·   West Bank was occupied in 1967.

·   Japan attacked Pearl Harbour located in Hawaii on 7 Dec: 1941.

·   Israel occupied Golan Heights from Syria.

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

·   Sakhalin island is dispute b/w Russia & Japan.

·   In Battle of Sabroan, English defeated Sikhs and captured Lahore.

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

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

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

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

·   Cease-fire between Iran and Iraq took place in 1988, by the intervention of U.N.

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

·   Pearl Harbor incident took place on 7^th Dec 1941.

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

·   Civil War of USA lasted from 1861-1865.

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

·   Doer war fought between South Africa and British.

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

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

·   In Opium war Britain fought against China.

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

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

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

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

·   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.

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

·   Iraq occupied Kuwait on 2^nd Aug 1990.

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

·   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.

·   Germans call a WW1 sea fight Battle of Skagerrak what in UK:            Battle of Jutland

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

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

·   In WW2 what was the German codename for invasion of Russia-       Barberossa

·   Operation Dracula in WWII freed what city-               Rangoon Burma

·   Which 19th century battle UK / USA fought after peace signed-            Battle of New Orleans

·   Waterloo is now in... Belgium 

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

·   What famous battle was fought at Pancenoit-Waterloo - (four miles away)

·   The third battle of Panipat was fought between Marathas and Afghans.

·   In Battle of Sabroan, English defeated Sikhs and captured Lahore.