Cold War & Nuclear Weapons

Question 1

Define the KGB

Answer 1

The Russian secret police

Question 2

What is an atomic bomb?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is an ideology?

Answer 3

A collection of ideas that guide a group of people

Question 4

What is a gadget?

Answer 4

A small tool with a particular function

Question 5

Define casualties

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What is a Purple Heart medal?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Define intimidate

Answer 7

To bully someone or make them afraid of you

Question 8

Define psychological?

Answer 8

Mental or emotional as opposed to physical in nature

Question 9

Define kamikaze

Answer 9

The Japanese word for “suicide”

Question 10

Define justified

Answer 10

To provide a good enough for doing something

Question 11

What is the Cold War

Answer 11

The rivalry between the USA and the USSR

Question 12

What is a Superpower

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Define humiliation

Answer 13

Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

Question 14

Megalomaniacal

Answer 14

Obsession with the exercise of power

Question 15

Nonaggression

Answer 15

Not wanting to fight

Question 16

Unjustifiable

Answer 16

Wrong

Question 17

Demilitarized

Answer 17

To do away with military and weapons

Question 18

Red Army

Answer 18

The army of the Soviet Union

Question 19

Satellite States

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Subsidised

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Censored

Answer 21

Controlled

Question 22

Secure

Answer 22

Be free of fear, worry and danger

Question 23

Dominant

Answer 23

Most in control, main, leading

Question 24

The State

Answer 24

The government of a country

Question 25

Privileged

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Nuclear fission

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Radioactive Fallout

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Manhattan Project

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Controversial

Answer 29

means causing arguments because people have strong opinions about it

Question 30

Moral

Answer 30

Having to do with what is right and what is wrong

Question 31

Mandatory

Answer 31

Required necessary

Question 32

Supreme Allied Commander

Answer 32

Head of allied armies, navies and air forces

Question 33

Barbarous

Answer 33

Brutal and cruel

Question 34

Influential

Answer 34

Powerful and dominant

Question 35

Propaganda

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Ridiculous

Answer 36

Silly; foolish; laughable

Question 37

Silos

Answer 37

an underground place for storing and launching missiles.

Question 38

Stockpiling

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Expansion

Answer 39

Something that is made larger by being expa

Question 40

Sphere of Influence

Answer 40

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

Question 41

Isolate

Answer 41

To set apart in order to make alone

Question 42

Proxy

Answer 42

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

Question 43

POW

Answer 43

Prisoner of War

Question 44

ICBM

Answer 44

Inter- continental ballistic missiles

Question 45

MAD

Answer 45

Mutually Assured Destruction

Question 46

Orbital

Answer 46

Circling the Earth

Question 47

Sputnik

Answer 47

The Russians launched the first satellite into space, called Sputnik

Question 48

Star and Stripe

Answer 48

The American flag

Question 49

Profit

Answer 49

Any money made from the sale of goods

Question 50

Detenate

Answer 50

Easing of tension

Question 51

Blockade

Answer 51

To stop things going into or out of a place

Question 52

Prolonged

Answer 52

Make longer

Question 53

Soviets

Answer 53

People from the Soviet Union