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) |