| patriotism | loyalty to ur own country |
| deterrents | ways of discouraging ppl from doing sth because of the negative results |
| to outlaw | to make war illegal or impossible |
| aerial warfare | fighting a war using aeroplanes |
| nuclear annihilation | total destruction by nuclear weapons |
| great powers | most important political powers |
| revulsion against | feeling of total disgust towards |
| causes | movements/ organisations |
| gaining their ends | achieving their arms |
| to wage war | to fight a war |
| hostilities (begin/break out/end/cease) | acts of war |
| to besiege | to attack a place by surrounding it |
| to ambush | to attack unexpectedly from secret positions |
| truce | an agreement during a war to stop fighting for a time |
| ceasefire | agreement between two armies to stop fighting |
| to rout | to defeat totally |
| peacekeeping troops | neutral soldiers engaged in keeping the peace in a divided society |
| international observer | outside, neutral person or body |
| campaign (plan/organise/launch) | planned group of military activities |
| incendiary device (placed/set off/thrown) | bomb |
| germ/biological warfare | using germs to cause disease among enemy soldiers or crops |
| to wage a war | toczyć wojnę |
| to biesiege | oblegać |
| to rout | rozgromić |
| to battle | walczyć |
| to have a major fight on sb's hands | mieć przed sobą wielki wysiłek |
| to rally the troops | to call together people/ workers |
| deter, deterrent, deterrent | odstraszać (+noun +adj) |
| warfare (war), warring (warlike) | działania wojenne + adj |
| outlaw, outlaw, outlawed | wyjąć spod prawa (+noun +adj) |
| empower, power, powerful | upoważniać (+noun +adj) |
| nucleus, nuclear | rdzeń, trzon +adj |
| revolt, revolution (revolt), revolting | budzić obrazę (+noun +adj) |
| annihilate, annihilation, annihilated | niweczyć, unicestwiać |
| cause, cause, causal | przyczyniać się, sprawiać (+noun +adj) |