Understanding Key Military Vocabulary

What is the term for a country's desire to strengthen its armed forces to become more powerful?

• Conscription

• Militarism

• Sovereignty

• Propaganda

What is the requirement to serve in the military called?

• Ultimatum

• Reconnaissance

• Conscription

• Armistice

What is a final demand, especially one backed up by a threat, known as?

• Ultimatum

• Abdicate

• Recession

• Convoy

What term describes a period of significant economic decline?

• Reparations

• Recession

• Atrocity

• Cryptography

What is a shockingly cruel or violent act called?

• Atrocity

• Combatant

• Artillery

• Pacifist

What is a written message transmitted over wires using a telegraph called?

• Telegram

• Convoy

• Reconnaissance

• Propaganda

What is the science of encoding and decoding information known as?

• Sovereignty

• Cryptography

• Armistice

• Conscription

What term describes information that is biased or misleading to promote a particular cause?

• Propaganda

• Militarism

• Ultimatum

• Abdicate

What do you call someone who is strongly opposed to war and violence?

• Combatant

• Pacifist

• Artillery

• Reconnaissance

What are large caliber weapons such as cannons and missile launchers called?

• Artillery

• Convoy

• Reparations

• Sovereignty