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World War II
tactics
HSK 6
world war
World War Two
written polemics
real combat / actual combat
challenger
to go to war / to engage in war
World War I (1914-1918)
strategic defense initiative (SDI)
to fight fiercely / fierce battle
to do battle (with sb)
first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627)
late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty
Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
war of aggression
War and Peace by Tolstoy 托爾斯泰|托尔斯泰
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943) / also called 斯大林格勒戰役|斯大林格勒战役
blitzkrieg / blitz
civil war
Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 of Han and Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu
the Warring States period (475-221 BC) / Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century)
outstanding military service
strategic nuclear weapon
Sino-French War (1883-1885) (concerning French seizure of Vietnam)
Battle of Britain (Jul-Oct 1940)
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  *战* | 战* | *战
to fight / fight / war / battle
struggle
the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods
World War II
"Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), possibly written by Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦
united front
strategic
shaking with fear
Seven Powerful States of the Warring States, namely: 齊|齐, , , 韓|韩, 趙|赵, and
armistice
civil war / internal struggle
gun battle / firefight
combat / to fight
HSK 6
war / to wage war
war; conflict / CL: 場|场,
HSK 4
shiver
to tremble with fear (idiom) / scared witless
war / hostilities / fighting
National protection war or Campaign to defend the republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor
to prevail over / to defeat / to surmount
HSK 4
(military) human wave attack
(China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945)
decisive battle / to fight a decisive battle / to fight for supremacy in ...
(military) to go off to war / (sports) to compete
to cease fire; to stop fighting / armistice; truce
(Tw) Star Wars
Lien Chan (1936-), Taiwanese politician, former vice-president and chairman of Guomintang
(gaming) team battle
lit. lone army putting up a brave fight (idiom) / fig. (of a person or group of people) struggling hard without support
(military) to meet for a decisive battle / (military) battle / (fig.) large-scale concerted effort
war of independence
united front (abbr. for 統一戰線|统一战线)
Battle of Redcliff of 208 at Chibi in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黃岡|黄冈, a decisive defeat of Cao Cao 曹操 at the hands of southern kingdom of Wu / famous episode in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
to declare war
psychological warfare / (literary) to be inwardly terrorized
to die in battle (idiom)
to triumph in every battle and win every fight (idiom); all-conquering / ever victorious / nothing they can't do
lit. heart alarmed, trembling in fear (idiom); prostrate with fear / scared witless
to fight bravely / (fig.) to struggle / to work hard
fighter (aircraft)
Pingjin Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War
wartime
incessant fighting between warlords
(military) street fighting; urban combat
battlefield / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
battleship
prolonged war / war of attrition
Vietnam War (1955-1975)
military strategy
neither war nor peace
Battle of Midway, June 1942
to be weary of war / (fig.) to lose one's desire to continue to fight (sports match, legal battle etc)
to meet a challenge
to emerge victorious in every battle / to be ever-victorious
battlefield situation / battle progress
to challenge / challenge
HSK 4
fight
to fight with all one's might
Rammstein (German metal band)
the flames of war
trade war
War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝|共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府|国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
tactic of several persons or groups taking turns to fight one opponent; tag-team attack
anti-war
prisoner of war
(idiom) all-conquering; invincible
artillery bombardment; artillery battle
to come unscathed through a hundred battles (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法); to win every fight
fighting and winning a series of battles (idiom); ever victorious
people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign
the pro-war faction / hawks
skirmish
to suffer defeat in every battle (idiom)

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