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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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