There are some war vocabulary.
I will assign 1 word per student and they will look up the word and provide a definition and brief example.
Then for our next word wall quiz I will use 5 randomly selected words from this list. (Tuesday Nov 16)
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Remembrance Day 4 - War Vocabulary
Dictator / Axis / Allies / Bunker / Trench / Nazi / Treaty / Blitzkrieg / Radar / Winston Churchill / Provisions / Hiroshima / Genocide / Cavalry / Morphine / Bayonet / Casualty / P.O.W. / Armistice / "Iron Curtain" / McCarthyism / Communist / Holocaust / Torture / League of Nations / Guerilla warfare
There are some war vocabulary.
I will assign 1 word per student and they will look up the word and provide a definition and brief example.
Then for our next word wall quiz I will use 5 randomly selected words from this list. (Tuesday Nov 16)
There are some war vocabulary.
I will assign 1 word per student and they will look up the word and provide a definition and brief example.
Then for our next word wall quiz I will use 5 randomly selected words from this list. (Tuesday Nov 16)
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ReplyDeleteThe meaning of cavalry is the part of a military force composed of troops that serve on horseback.
ReplyDeleteCasualty is a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because his or her whereabouts or condition cannot be determined.
ReplyDeleteradar detects objects within the area by useing electro magnetic waves (em waves) it can tell the distance of the object like how a bat is able to fly at night.
ReplyDeletePrisoners of war are those who were captured in a war, either civilians or Enemy personelle. They are either killed, or enslaved to assist them, or even released. They are usually released after they are stripped of any arms, equipment, and supplies.
ReplyDeleteQuick Info:
2818 POws in WWI
8000 POws in WWII held by Germans
TRENCH:-defenition:-(1) an deep ditch or furrow. (2)a ditch dug as a fortification, having a parapet of the excavated earth.
ReplyDeletetypo- personnel
ReplyDeleteAn armistice is when two armies that are against each other stop fighting eachother so they can meet up with each other and discuss about peace terms.One example is when the allied forces of world war 1 and Germany stopped fighting so they could end the war with a truce.
ReplyDeletedefinition of hiroshima :a port in SW Japan, on SW Honshu on the delta of the Ota River: largely destroyed on August 6, 1945, by the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare, dropped by the US, which killed over 75 000 of its inhabitants.
ReplyDeleteNazi or Nazism is a type of fascism belief (fascism is the political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government) that involved very rascist and antisemitism beliefs.
ReplyDeleteThe Nazis believed in Preeminence or superiorty of the Aryan race. And they believed that the jews were the greatest threat to them.
Nazis is what people comonlly refer to as Hitler governed Germany.
In short Nazism was nationalism and soacialism for Hitler governed Germany.
Morphine is a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
ReplyDeleteExample: when a soldier gets hurt, they use the morphine to reduce the pain !!!.
radar (RAdio Detection And Range)
ReplyDeletethe acranym was made by the us navy in 1940
Nationalism( is pride for your country)
ReplyDeletesocialism (is a theory of ownership)
Fascism( is the opposite of democracy)
Heirachal( Ranking )
A bayonet is a blade that can be attached to the muzzle of a rifle for stabbing in close combat.
ReplyDeleteExample:When the soldiers have to do close combat fighting they have use the bayonet to stab their enemy since they can't shoot them.
Genocide- definition the policy deliberately killing a nationality or ethnic group
ReplyDeleteCommunist means often radical viewed as a subversive or revolutionary. A person who is regarded as supporting politically or subversive causes. First attested in writing by John Goodwin Barmby (1820-1881), British Owenite and utopian socialist who founded the London Communist Propaganda Society in 1841.
ReplyDeletetreaty is agreement between two or more people as a refrence of peace or trade.for example the peace tearty in czechoslovvakia
ReplyDeleteallies are countries or people who unite or work together to help each other. for example, in WWI France and Russia were allied so when Germany attacked France, Russia came to help them out because they were allied. another example is if I'm allied with someone and they get beat up, i will come to help them because we are allied so we work together.
ReplyDeleteradar also helps to tell if any aircrafts where coming in to bomb a place
ReplyDeleteA example of casualty would be A spy that was caught and was killed by the enemy.
ReplyDeleteProvisions:a supply or stock of something provided.
ReplyDeleteI was in the boat and as i looked up i saw gun shots and bombs coming towards our ship, i ran and quickly got the provisions provided .. i didn't make it, i fell dead on the ship, laying down, not breathing, and heard lots of people screaming for thier rights, i got shot several times .. i didn't survive.
TRENCH:-example/ in the war the soldiers used to dig a trench to hide in or lay inside so maybe the would have some time to reload their guns or trying to plan an attack.{this all i could think of}
ReplyDeleteThe word McCarthyism comes from the senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy after he claimed that there were Communists and soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere thus came the word McCarthyism.Definition:
ReplyDelete1.the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, esp. of pro-Communist activity, in many instances unsupported by proof or based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.
2. the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, esp. in order to restrict dissent or political criticism.
-BUNKER-
ReplyDeleteDefinition-
a fortification set most of it below the surface of the ground with overhead protection provided by logs and earth or by concrete and with openings through which guns may be fired.
Example-
the war was going on and the soliders were fighting , then as the other countrys troops were getting nearer and there was blasting everywhere.then one of the soliders used an bunker to shoot the other soliders for saftey and defense
A dictator is a ruler who assumes sole and absolute power but, without hereditary ascension such as an absolute monarch.
ReplyDeleteexample: when a war is about to start the leader tells you to have enough power in yourself to fight in the war but without hereditary.
HEREDITARY means: occurring among members of a family usually by heredity.
iron curtain is a speech made by winston churchill which was presented on march 5th, 1946 to Westminster College in the small Missouri town of Fulton. The population of that town was 7,000 and the speech has spread to a population of 40,000
ReplyDeleteGenocide- example during the war there were many people who had different backgrounds and like mr. cheney said if were apart of somethingwith your culter you would be killed
ReplyDeleteWinston Churchill is a human and cannot be described as a defeniton. His full name is Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill.
ReplyDeleteIn May, 1940, he became Prime Minister and Minister of Defence until 1945 and once again in 1951 to 1955. He served the British army on the Western Front in WW1. the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty. After the outbreak of the WWII, Churchill was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.
axis - a group of countries in special alliance
ReplyDelete- an alliance of powers, such as nations, to promote mutual interests and policies.
World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations ,the Axis opposed the Allies in World War II.