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Cold War & Nuclear Weapons Flashcards

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Define the KGB

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The Russian secret police

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What is an atomic bomb?

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A weapon that is much more powerful than other bombs, also called a nuclear bomb

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What is an ideology?

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A collection of ideas that guide a group of people

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What is a gadget?

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A small tool with a particular function

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Define casualties

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People who get injured, killed, captured of missing during a war

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What is a Purple Heart medal?

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An award given to soldiers who have been killed or injured in the US military

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Define intimidate

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To bully someone or make them afraid of you

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Define psychological?

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Mental or emotional as opposed to physical in nature

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Define kamikaze

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The Japanese word for “suicide”

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Define justified

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To provide a good enough for doing something

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What is the Cold War

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The rivalry between the USA and the USSR

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What is a Superpower

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The two strongest powers after WWII: the USA and the USSR

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Define humiliation

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Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

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Megalomaniacal

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Obsession with the exercise of power

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Nonaggression

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Not wanting to fight

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Unjustifiable

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Wrong

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Demilitarized

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To do away with military and weapons

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Red Army

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The army of the Soviet Union

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Satellite States

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countries in Eastern Europe that had been under the control of
the Soviet Union

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Subsidised

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the government paid a certain amount towards basic food items to
make them cheaper for the people

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Censored

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Controlled

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Secure

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Be free of fear, worry and danger

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Dominant

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Most in control, main, leading

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The State

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The government of a country

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Privileged

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people who have rights or benefits that are given only to certain
groups or people

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Nuclear fission

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he splitting of an atom usually into two, that causes a huge
release of energy, as in the explosion of an atomic bomb

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Radioactive Fallout

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the dangerous and poisonous particles that result from a
nuclear explosion.

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Manhattan Project

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This was a research and development programme by the
USA that produced the first atomic bomb during WWII

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Controversial

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means causing arguments because people have strong opinions about it

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Moral

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Having to do with what is right and what is wrong

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Mandatory

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Required necessary

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Supreme Allied Commander

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Head of allied armies, navies and air forces

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Barbarous

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Brutal and cruel

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Influential

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Powerful and dominant

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Propaganda

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information or opinions that are made public to promote a movement or cause or person or idea.

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Ridiculous

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Silly; foolish; laughable

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Silos

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an underground place for storing and launching missiles.

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Stockpiling

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this means to build up a big supply in preparation for som

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Expansion

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Something that is made larger by being expa

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Sphere of Influence

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area controlled by one country even if they don’t own it

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Isolate

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To set apart in order to make alone

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Proxy

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A person who is authorised to act for or on behalf of another

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POW

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Prisoner of War

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ICBM

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Inter- continental ballistic missiles

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MAD

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Mutually Assured Destruction

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Orbital

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Circling the Earth

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Sputnik

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The Russians launched the first satellite into space, called Sputnik

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Star and Stripe

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The American flag

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Profit

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Any money made from the sale of goods

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Detenate

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Easing of tension

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Blockade

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To stop things going into or out of a place

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Prolonged

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Make longer

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Soviets

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People from the Soviet Union

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