Chapter 7 Vocab Quiz

to renounce or give up the right to a throne

• civilian

• pacifist

• abdicate

• militarism

a pause in fighting brought about by agreement between the two sides

• telegram

• armistice

• ultimatum

• reparation

artillery

• a person not in the armed services or the police force

• a period of significant economic decline

• large caliber weapons such as cannons and missile launchers

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

a shockingly cruel or violent act

• civilian

• sovereignty

• atrocity

• conscription

civilian

• a person not in the armed services or the police force

• a requirement to serve in the military

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

• a period of significant economic decline

a person fighting in a war or other conflict

• convoy

• recession

• combatant

• pacifist

a requirement to serve in the military

• propaganda

• cryptography

• pacifist

• conscription

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

• sovereignty

• reconnaissance

• pacifist

• convoy

the science of encoding and decoding information

• sovereignty

• cryptography

• reconnaissance

• pacifist

militarism

• a written message transmitted over wires by using an electric device called a telegraph

• something done or given in an effort to make amends or right wrongs

• information that is biased or misleading in order to promote a particular cause

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