Vocabulary
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Satsuma Rebellion (1877)
Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)
Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)
Cod Wars (UK-Iceland confrontations over fishing rights; 1958, 1971, 1975)
Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
Arab-Israeli Wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973)
German Peasants' War (1524-1525)
German Peasants' War (1524-1525)
Franco-German War (i.e. the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871)
Trojan War
Treaty of Portsmouth (ending the Russo-Japanese War, 1905)
Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki)
Battle of Hakodate (battle of the Boshin War; 1868-1869)
Balkan Wars (1912, 1913)
Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
Burmese Wars (1823-1826, 1852-1853, 1885-1887)
Austro-Prussian War (1866)
French and Indian War (1754-1763)
War of 1812
Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces; 1868-1869)
push-button war; war started or ended with the push of a button (e.g. to launch a nuclear missile)
Great Northern War (1700-1721)
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
Treaty of San Stefano (ending the Russo-Turkish War, 1878)
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
Falklands War (1982)
Iraq War (2003-2011)
Iran-Contra affair (1984-1986); Irangate
(UN) Security Council
UN Security Council
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
UN Special Session on Disarmament
UN Economic and Social Council
official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)
Trusteeship Council
UN Trusteeship Council
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment