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.

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

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.

A ________ is a soldier who usually works alone and specializes in shooting from very long distances.

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

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

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

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

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

The French army under Napoleon was ________ at the Battle of Waterloo by the British-led and Prussian armies.

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

Although the Anglo Zanzibar war of 1896 lasted only 38 minutes, over 500 people, both combatants and ________, where killed or injured.