Which battle took place in Fallujah in 2004 and again in 2016?

• A. Battle of Iwo Jima
• B. Battle of Hue City
• C. Battle of Fallujah
• D. Battle of Okinawa

Answer: (C)

This question tests your ability to link the same location to multiple major battles across different years. Fallujah became a focal point of intense urban combat in two distinct eras: in 2004, during the Iraq War, when U.S. Marines and Iraqi forces fought two hard-fought battles to take the city from insurgents; and again in 2016, when Iraqi forces, with coalition support, launched an operation to retake Fallujah from ISIS. So the event that occurred in Fallujah in both 2004 and 2016 is the battle named after that city, the Battle of Fallujah. The other battles happened in entirely different places and times: Iwo Jima and Okinawa are in the Pacific in 1945, and Hue City is a major 1968 battle in Vietnam.