Conlict and warfare

Nelson Mandela was ......................in 1990 after having been imprisoned for 27 years.

A ........................is a soldier who usually works alone and specializes in shooting from very long distances. The word originates from the British occupation of India in the 1800s

In 1805, naval ....................Horatio Nelson led the British Royal Navy to destroy the French-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.

On 8th December 1941, President Roosevelt ............... war on Japan following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day

In Sweden, compulsory service in the armed .....................– army, navy, or air force – was abolished in 2010, but then reintroduced in 2018.

Although the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 lasted only 38 minutes, over 500 people, both combatants and ................ , were killed or injured.

The Great Fire of London .....................in a bakery on 2nd September 1666 and wasn’t extinguished until four days later.

The ........................in the United States – fought between the Northern and Southern States – lasted from 1861 to 1865.

Two of Henry VIII’s six wives were.............. , two he divorced, one died following childbirth, and the last one survived.

In 2018, convicted British football hooligans had to ....................their passports to police to prevent them from travelling to the World Cup in Russia.

The total number of ............................(people killed or injured) caused directly by the First World War was around 40 million.

Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole were nurses who improved the treatment of the ......................in the Crimean War from 1853–6.

In 1605, a man called Guy Fawkes attempted to ...............the Houses of Parliament in London with barrels of gunpowder.

In the early 1930s, the divorced American Wallis Simpson ......... the heart of the heir to the British throne, who soon after became King Edward VIII. Their intended marriage caused a constitutional crisis and ultimately led to Edward’s ab

In 2019, there were 26 million ..................... globally, the majority of whom had fled their home countries due to war and persecution.

In December 1914, Pope Benedict XV suggested a temporary break in World War I for the celebration of Christmas. While an official ........................was refused, many soldiers declared their own unofficial truce.

On 3rd September 1783, a peace ..................... was signed between the United States and Britain that ended the American War of Independence.

After the siege of Constantinople in 1204, the Crusaders ................the city and transferred its riches to Italy.

The battleship Bismarck was sunk during the Second World War. Of a crew of 2,200, there were only 114 ................ .