8th grade Chapter 7

to renounce or give up the right to a throne

• abdicate

• alliance

• atrocity

• convoy

a pause in fighting brought about by agreement between two sides

• allotment

• conscription

• armistice

• combatant

large caliber weapons such as cannons and missle launchers

• convoy

• atrocity

• artillery

• combatant

a shockingly cruel or violent act

• atrocity

• abdicate

• civilian

• combatant

a person not in the armed services or the police force

• ultimatum

• pacifist

• conscription

• civilian

a person fighting in a war or other conflict

• civilian

• convoy

• abdicate

• combatant

a requirement to serve in the military

• atrocity

• armistice

• cryptography

• conscription

a group of ships or other vehicles traveling together especially for protection

• recession

• convoy

• telegram

• propaganda

writing in code or solving messages written in code

• convoy

• reparation

• militarism

• cryptography

a country's desire to strengthen its armed forces in order to make itself more powerful

• imperialism

• militarism

• sovereignty

• atrocity