Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Wikipedia. war war, armed conflict between states or nations (international war) or between factions within a state (civil war), prosecuted by force and having the purpose of compelling the defeated side to do the will of the victor. ...
Further information: Reykjavík Summit, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, START I, and Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany In response to the Kremlin's military and political concessions, Reagan agreed to renew talks on economic issues and the scaling-back of the arms ra...
Define The Opium War. The Opium War synonyms, The Opium War pronunciation, The Opium War translation, English dictionary definition of The Opium War. pl n two wars between China and Britain resulting from the Chinese refusal to allow the importation of o
The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Following a campaign by which Lord Carnarvon had successfully brought about federation in Canada, it was thought that similar combined military and political campaigns
Israel, which captured the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war and signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994, maintains a transit terminal for Palestinians and foreign visitors at the Allenby bridge. Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian at Jordan crossing Some 500,000 Israeli settlers live in the...
The JapaneseSecond Special Squadronheaded back home in May, 1919. As part of their spoils of war, they took with them seven German submarines. As the three Great Powers-- Great Britain, France and the United States-- decided the fate of the world during the Versailles Treaty negotiations, ...
And who could possibly forget Lord Wright of Richmond's hilarious contribution to the House of Lords debate on the EU Prüm Treaty, which gave its signatories access to one another's DNA databases: There is a democracy deficit of both Prüm and passenger name records (PNR). MEPs’ views ...
In the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868, with the transcontinental railroad nearing completion and opening up a new, shorter route to the Montana gold fields, the government agreed to abandon the forts on the Bozeman Trail, to make the western half of Dakota Territory a large reservation for th...
After the brief three-month Spanish-American war in 1898, the United States acquired the Philippines through the Treaty of Paris. While the U.S. Navy fought a dominant campaign against the Spanish fleet in the waters around the Philippines during the war, Filipinos fought against the local Span...