Solved MCQs on Important Battles

 

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.
• West Bank is located b/w Isreal & Jordan.
• West Bank was occupied in 1967.
• Iran & UAE dispute over Persian Gulf islands, Greater & lesser Tunbs.
• Sakhalin Island is dispute b/w Russia & Japan.
• 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 6th June 1944. Normandy is located in France.
• Pearl Harbor incident took place on 7th 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 2nd Aug 1990.
• USA dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima on 6th 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.
• In Battle of Sabroan, English defeated Sikhs and captured Lahore.
• Iraq occupied Kuwait in August 1990.
• North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950.
• Darfur conflict is in Sudan.