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World War II Air Battles
The World At War
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An unprovoked attack by an enemy
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A foreigner in a belligerent country
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Shells, bombs, military stores |
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A general pardon of offenders
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To reduce to nothing
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An agreement by belligerents to stop fighting
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A place where naval or military weapons are made or
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A broad belt worn by cadets across the right shoulder and across the chest with pockets for carrying cartridges g cartridges
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The main division of an army
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A short sword fixed on to the end of a gun
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Nations carrying on warfare
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To surround a place with the intention of capturing it
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An encampment in the open air |
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To camp in the open air without tents or covering
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Official reports on the progress of the War
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A place where soldiers can buy drinks and other
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A container for drinks
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To surrender to an enemy on agreed terms
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The killed or wounded in battle |
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Horse-soldiers
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To seize for military use |
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A person who is forced by law to become a soldier
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Compulsory enrolment as soldiers or sailors |
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Smuggling of goods or engaging in prohibited traffic
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A number of ships travelling together under escort
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To release from the army
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The art of conducting negotiations between nations
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An order prohibiting ships to leave the ports |
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The act or practice of spying
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To remove from one place to another to avoid the
destruction of war |
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A soldier's holiday
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A number of firearms being discharged continuously
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A body of soldiers stationed in a fortress to defend
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A fortified place defended by soldiers, cannons, etc.
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An irregular warfare conducted by scattered or
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An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery shell, attached to a detonating mechanism. IEDs are commonly used as roadside bombs.
Today, there are an estimated 110 million anti-personnel mines in the ground and another 250 million stockpiled in at least 108 countries around the world. |
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Foot-soldiers
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To keep citizens of another country in confinement |
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To enter a country as an enemy
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Skilful movement of ships or troops in order to secure an advantage over the enemy
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To make troops, ships etc. ready for war service |
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Taking neither side in the struggle, that is, not assisting either of the belligerents
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N.V.G.
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A night-vision device (NVD), also known as night optical/observation device (NOD) and night-vision goggles (NVG), The first military night-vision devices were introduced by the GermanArmy as early as 1939 and were used in World War II |
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Heavy guns, artillery and army stores |
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An apparatus which opens like an umbrella to enable a person to drop safely from an aircraft
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A promise given by a prisoner not to try to escape if given temporary release
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A long strip of cloth bound round the foot of soldiers from the ankle to the knee
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To make an examination or preliminary survey of enemy territory or military objective
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A soldier recently enlisted for service
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Music for awakening soldiers in the morning Reveille, from the French word ‘reveillez’, meaning to ‘wake-up’, was originally played as a drum beat just prior to daybreak. Its purpose is to wake up the sleeping soldiers and to let the sentries know that they could cease challenging. It was also a signal to open the town gates and let out the horse guard, allowing them to do a reconnaissance of the immediate area beyond the walls. |
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The firing of many guns at the same time to mark an occasion, usually seven soldiers fire three volleys for a 21 gun slaute
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A shower of bullets
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World War II Air Battles
(Power Point)
The World At War
1300–1200 BCE
Trojan War (dates uncertain)
1200–1100 BCE
Trojan War (dates uncertain)
800–700 BCE
First Messenian War (c. 735–715 BCE)
Lelantine War (c. 720–680 BCE; dates uncertain)
700–600 BCE
Lelantine War (c.720–680 BCE; dates uncertain)
Second Messenian War (c. 660 BCE)
500–400 BCE
Greco-Persian Wars (492–449 BCE)
Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE)
400–300 BCE
Lamian War (323–322 BCE)
300–200 BCE
First Punic War (264–241 BCE)
Second Punic War (218–201 BCE)
200–100 BCE
Third Punic War (149–146 BCE)
100 BCE–100 CE
Gallic Wars (58–50 BCE)
600–700
Jinshin-no-ran (672)
1000–1300
Norman Conquest (1066)
Crusades (1095–1291; sporadically thereafter)
Gempei War (1180–85)
Barons’ War (1264–67)
1300–1400
Hundred Years’ War (c. 1337–1453)
War of the Eight Saints (1375–78)
1400–1500
Hundred Years’ War (c. 1337–1453)
Thirteen Years’ War (1454–66)
Wars of the Roses (1455–85)
?nin War (1467–77)
1500–1600
Count’s War (1534–36)
Araucanian Wars (1541–58)
Livonian War (1558–83)
Eighty Years’ War (1568–1648)
War of the Three Henrys (1587–89)
1600–1700
Eighty Years’ War (1568–1648)
Kalmar War (1611–13)
Thirty Years’ War (1618–48)
Powhatan War (1622–44)
Bishops’ Wars (1639; 1640)
English Civil Wars (1642–51)
First Northern War (1655–60)
War of Devolution (1667–68)
King Philip’s War (1675–76)
War of the Grand Alliance (1689–97)
King William’s War (1689–97)
1700–1800
Second Northern War (1700–21)
War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14)
War of the Emboabas (1708–09)
Carnatic Wars (1746–48; 1749–54; 1758–63)
Queen Anne’s War (1702–13)
Yamasee War (1715–16)
War of the Polish Succession (1733–38)
War of Jenkins’ Ear (1739–48)
War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48)
King George’s War (1744–48)
French and Indian War (1754–63)
Silesian Wars (1740–42; 1744–45; 1756–62)
Seven Years’ War (1756–63)
Lord Dunmore’s War (1774)
Rohilla War (1774)
American Revolution (1775–83)
First Maratha War (1775–82)
War of the Bavarian Succession (1778–79)
Cape Frontier Wars (1779–1879)
French Revolution (1787–99)
French revolutionary wars (1792–1801)
1800–1900
Cape Frontier Wars (1779–1879)
French revolutionary wars (1792–1801)
War of the Oranges (1801)
Tripolitan War (1801–05)
Second Maratha War (1803–05)
Third Maratha War (1817–18)
Napoleonic Wars (1803–15)
Black War (1804–30)
Peninsular War (1808–14)
War of 1812 (1812–15)
Creek War (1813–14)
War of Greek Independence (1821–32)
Padri War (1821–37)
Naning War (1831–32)
Pastry War (1838–39)
Mexican-American War (1846–48)
Crimean War (1853–56)
Bleeding Kansas (1854–59)
American Civil War (1861–65)
War of the Triple Alliance (1864/65–70)
Seven Weeks’ War (1866)
Selangor Civil War (1867–73)
Franco-German War (1870–71)
Acehnese War (1873–1904)
Red River Indian War (1874–75)
Serbo-Turkish War (1876–78)
Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
War of the Pacific (1879–83)
Gun War (1880–81)
Sino-French War (1883–85)
Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885–86)
Sino-Japanese War (1894–95)
Spanish-American War (1898)
Philippine-American War (1899–1902)
South African War (1899–1902)
The War of a Thousand Days (1899–1903)
1900–2000
Acehnese War (1873–1904)
Philippine-American War (1899–1902)
South African War (1899–1902)
The War of a Thousand Days (1899–1903)
Boxer Rebellion (1900–01)
Moro Wars (1901–13)
Russo-Japanese War (1904–05)
Pig War (1906–09)
Mexican Revolution (1910–20)
Italo-Turkish War (1911–12)
World War I (1914–18)
Baltic War of Liberation (1918–20)
Russian Civil War (1918–20)
Russo-Polish War (1919–20)
Rif War (1921–26)
Chaco War (1932–35)
Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–36)
Spanish Civil War (1936–39)
Sino-Japanese War (1937–45)
Phony War (1939–40; no actual hostilities)
Russo-Finnish War (1939–40)
World War II (1939–45)
Greek Civil War (1944–45; 1946–49)
Arab-Israeli wars (1948–49; 1956; 1967; 1973; 1982)
Korean War (1950–53)
Algerian War (1954–62)
Vietnam War (1954–75)
Six-Day War (1967)
War of Attrition (1969–70)
Yom Kippur War (1973)
Dirty War (1976–83)
Afghan War (1978–92)
Iran-Iraq War (1980–88)
Falkland Islands War (1982)
Persian Gulf War (1990–91)
Bosnian conflict (1992–95)
Kosovo conflict (1998–99)
2000–
Afghanistan War (2001–14)
Iraq War (2003–11)
Syrian Civil War (2012– )
During my Digital Media, Multimedia and some AIT or VET courses I got my students to work on The S.T.E.A.M.E.R book of knowledge, especially advanced students that complete tasks ahead of time, this was my fall back lessons for those clever or advanced students, they were asked to pick one of the areas of study and create a cover page, find some interesting facts and put their findings into a chapter of the book The book was 138 pages long at my retirement from teaching.
STEAMER Stands for
Science, Technology, English, Arts, Mathematics, Enivironment and Religion
For those students that presented work on English we gathered a lot of useful reference information that became a STUDENT's COMPENDIUM here are some samples of student work
Explanation for Compendium File Includes SC007_Commonly_confused_words SC013 Death Words pertaining to Occurring after death - posthumous SC009_Diminutives SC010_Famous SC011_Figurative_Expressions SC012_Gender SC013_Geography The Circumference of the earth is approxinmately 24,800 miles. SC014_Gods War - Mars SC015_Government Australian Government SC016_Grammar Explains various uses of nouns verbs etc. SC017_Human_Relationships THE ART OF LIVING - Consideration for the feelings of others SC018_Inventions Clock (pendulum) - Christian Huygens SC019_Kings_Queens of UK EGBERT 827 - 839 SC020_Literary A book in which the events of each day are recorded - Diary SC021_Marriage A hater of marriage - misogamist SC022_Medical A disease confined to a particular district or place - endemic SC044_Metaphors Metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated SC023_Miscellaneous All Fools' Day - 1st April - Aussie slang - sounds that things make etc. SC024_Nouns sit - seat (when to use Nouns) SC025_Names Boys & Girls names explained SC026_Nature A four-footed animal - quadruped SC027_Negatives That which cannot be pierced or penetrated - impenetrable SC028_Numbers A number of fish taken in a net - catch, haul SC029_Opposites Unable to read - il-literate SC030_Patron Saints St. George of England, St. Andrew of Scotland SC031_Places A place where fishes are kept - aquarium SC032_Possessive_Case Is the case which denotes the owner or possessor SC045_Phobias Noctiphobia - Fear of the night SC033_Professions The commander of a fleet - Admiral SC034_Similes Archates - a good friend * Belt = to hit below the belt SC035_Proverbs A bad beginning makes a good ending. SC048_Sayings as a drowned rat. - as ancient as the sun—as the stars. SC036_Science_and_Arts An instrument for detecting earthquakes - seismograph SC037_Scientific_Terms The science of land management - agronomics SC038_Seven_Wonders The Pyramids of Egypt SC039_Synonyms abandon....... desert, forsake, leave. SC040_War Nations carrying on warfare - belligerents SC041_Weddings 7th year—Copper or Brass SC042_Words_to_Verbs strong - strengthen SC043_Other Any other items that might be of interest SC044_Metaphors Metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated SC045_Phobias Noctiphobia - Fear of the night SC046_Death SC047_Thesaurus Thesaurus - abandon = abandoned, abandoning, abandonment, abandons affluent =having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value,words explained and incorrect use of words
SC048_Sayings as afraid as a grasshopper. SC049_UrbanMyths The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, hence the saying "dirt poor." Please note there are some excellent links to assist with these pages
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