Across
- 3. a person who is captured and held prisoner by a person or group, and who may be injured or killed if people do not do what the person or group is asking
- 5. a prison, often consisting of a number of buildings inside a fence, where prisoners are kept in extremely bad conditions
- 9. A small group of soldiers who are not part of an official army and who fight against official soldiers, usually to try to change the government
- 11. a system of government where everything is owned by the community and each person gives what they can and receives what they need
- 13. the murder of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group, with the aim of destroying that nation or group
- 14. the act of keeping another country’s power down so that it does not become too powerful
- 15. an extreme right-wing political system that favors a strong central government and thinks that one country or race is better than all others. Also violently opposes people who disagree.
Down
- 1. an economic system in which a country’s businesses and industry are controlled and run for profit by private owners rather than by the government
- 2. a weapon that uses poisonous gasses and chemicals to kill and injure people
- 4. scientific knowledge used to design new machines
- 6. a sticky substance like jelly, made from petrol, that burns and is used in making bombs
- 7. a situation in which many things are destroyed and many people killed, especially because of a war
- 8. a system of government in which the people of a country can vote to elect their representatives
- 10. the idea that political systems should be based on the teachings of Islam
- 12. a bomb that explodes using the energy that is produced when an atom or atoms are split