Conflict and war

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Across
  1. 6. in 1605, a man called Guy Fawkes attempted to ______-______ the Houses of Parliament with barrels of gunpowder.
  2. 7. after the siefe of Constantinople, the crusaders _______ the city and transferred its riches to Italy.
  3. 10. The French army under Napoleon was __________ at the battle of Waterloo by the British and Prussian armies.
  4. 11. On 8th December 1941, President Roosevelt ___________ war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  5. 12. The battleship Bismarck was sunk during World War II. Of a crew of 2,200 there were only 114 ______________.
  6. 15. In December 1914, the pope suggested a temporary break in World War 1 for Christmas. While an official _________ was refused, many soldiers declared their own unofficial truce.
  7. 16. In 2018, convicted British football hooligans had to ____________ their passports to prevent them from travelling to the world cup in Russia.
  8. 18. On 3rd Sept 1783, a peace ________ was signed between the US and Britain that ended the American war of independence.
  9. 19. The total number of __________ (people killed or injured) caused directly by World War 1 was around 40 million.
Down
  1. 1. Two of Henry VIII's six wives were __________, two he divorced, one died during childbirth, and the last one survived.
  2. 2. in 1805, naval ________ Horatio Nelson led the british navy to destroy the French-Spanish fleet in Trafalgar.
  3. 3. Although the Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 lasted 38 minutes, over 500 people, both combatants and __________ were killed or injured.
  4. 4. Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole were nurses who improved the treatment of the _____________ during the Crimean war.
  5. 5. In Sweden, compulsory service in the armed __________ - army, navy or air force - was abolished in 2010, but then reintroduced in 2018.
  6. 8. The great fire of London ______-______ in a bakery in 1666 and took 4 days to extinguish.
  7. 9. A _________ is a soldier who usually works alone and specializes in shooting from very long distances.
  8. 13. in 2019, there were 26 million __________ globally, the majority of whom had fled their home countries due to war and persecution.
  9. 14. The _______-_______ in the US - fought between the northern and southern states - lasted for 4 years.
  10. 17. Nelson Mandela was __________ in 1990 after having been improsed for 27 years.