The battleship Bismarck was sunk during the Second World War. Of a crew of 2,200, there were only 114 _______________.
survivors
In Sweden, compulsory service in the armed____________ – army, navy, or air force – was abolished in 2010, but then reintroduced in 2018.
forces
In 1605, a man called Guy Fawkes attempted to ________ the Houses of Parliament in London with barrels of gunpowder.
Blow up
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.
ceasefire
In 2018, convicted British football hooligans had to _______________ their passports to police to prevent them from travelling to the World Cup in Russia.
surrender
A ________ is a soldier who usually works alone and specializes in shooting from very long distances.
sniper
On 3rd September 1783, a peace ________ was signed between the United States and Britain that ended the American War of Independence.
treaty
The French army under Napoleon was ________ at the Battle of Waterloo by the British-led and Prussian armies.
defeated
Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole were nurses who improved the treatment of the ________ in the Crimean War from 1853-6.
wounded
The Great Fire of London ________ in a bakery on 2nd September 1666 and wasn’t extinguished until four days later.
broke out
In 2019, there were 26 million____________ globally, the majority of whom had fled their home countries due to war and persecution.
refugees
The ________ in the United States, fought between the Northern and Southern states, lasted from 1861 to 1865.
civil war
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.
captured
On 8th December 1941, President Roosevelt ____________war on Japan following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day.
declared
After the siege of Constantinople in 1204 the Crusaders ________ the city and transferred its riches to Italy.
Looted
The total number of ________, (people killed or injured) caused directly by the First World War was around 40 million.
casualties
In 1805, naval ________ Horatio Nelson led the British Royal Navy to destroy the French-Spanish Fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.
commander
Although the Anglo Zanzibar war of 1896 lasted only 38 minutes, over 500 people, both combatants and ________, where killed or injured.
civilians
Two of Henry VIII’s six wives were ________, two he divorced, one died following childbirth and the last one survived.
Executed
Nelson Mandela was ______________ in 1990 after having been imprisoned for 27 years.
released