Unit 48 War and peace Flashcards
Deterrents
Ways of discouraging people from doing something because of the negative results
Outlaw
Make war illegal or impossible
1918
End of the first word war
Aerial warfare
Fighting a war using aeroplanes
1945
End of the Second World War
Nuclear annihilation
Total destruction by nuclear weapons
Great powers
Most important political powers
Revulsion against
Feeling of total disgust towards
Causes
Movements, organisations
Gaining their ends
Achieving their aims
To wage war
To fight a war
Hostilities
Acts of war
To besiege
To attack a place by surrounding it
To ambush
To attack unexpectedly from secret positions
A truce
An agreement during a war to stop fighting for a time
A ceasefire
Agreement between two armies or groups to stop fighting
To rout
To defeat totally
Peacekeeping troops
Neutral soldiers engaged in keeping the peace in a divided society
An international observer
Outside,neutral person or body
A campaign
Planned group of military activities
An incendiary device
Bomb
Germ/biological warfare
Using germs to cause disease among enemy soldiers or crops
Patriotism
Loyalty to your own country
