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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the early 1930s, the divorced American socialite 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.

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

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