Vocabulary

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Satsuma Rebellion (1877)

Noun

Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)

Noun

Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)

Noun

Cod Wars (UK-Iceland confrontations over fishing rights; 1958, 1971, 1975)

Noun

Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)

Noun

Arab-Israeli Wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973)

Noun

German Peasants' War (1524-1525)

Noun

German Peasants' War (1524-1525)

Noun

Franco-German War (i.e. the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871)

Noun

Trojan War

Noun

Treaty of Portsmouth (ending the Russo-Japanese War, 1905)

Noun

Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki)

Noun

Battle of Hakodate (battle of the Boshin War; 1868-1869)

Noun

Balkan Wars (1912, 1913)

Noun

Hundred Years War (1337-1453)

Noun

Burmese Wars (1823-1826, 1852-1853, 1885-1887)

Noun

Austro-Prussian War (1866)

Noun

French and Indian War (1754-1763)

Noun

War of 1812

Noun

Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces; 1868-1869)

Noun

push-button war; war started or ended with the push of a button (e.g. to launch a nuclear missile)

Noun

Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Noun

Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)

Noun

Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)

Noun

Treaty of San Stefano (ending the Russo-Turkish War, 1878)

Noun

Mexican-American War (1846-1848)

Noun

Falklands War (1982)

Noun

Iraq War (2003-2011)

Noun

Iran-Contra affair (1984-1986); Irangate

Noun

(UN) Security Council

Noun

UN Security Council

Noun

UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

Noun

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Noun

UN Special Session on Disarmament

Noun

UN Economic and Social Council

Noun

official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)

Noun

Trusteeship Council

Noun

UN Trusteeship Council

Noun

United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

Noun

United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

Noun