THE Cold war

• Cold War


  The rivalry between the USA and the USSR
• Superpowers


  The two strongest powers after WWII, the USA and the USSR
• Red Army


  The army of the Soviet Union
• Satellite States


  Countries in Eastern Europe that had been under the control of the Soviet Union
• The State


  The government of the country
• Nuclear fission


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


  The dangerous and poisonous particles that result from a nuclear explosion
• Manhattan Project


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


  Head of all the Allied armies, navies and air forces
• Propaganda


  Information or opinions that are made public to promote a movement or cause or person or idea
• Silos


  An underground place for storing and launching missiles
• Stockpiling


  To build up a big supply in preparation for something
• Soviets


  People from the Soviet Union
• Expansion


  Something that is made larger by being expanded
• Sphere of influence


  Area controlled by one country even if they don't own it
• Proxy


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


  Russian secret police
• Atomic bomb


  Much more powerful than other bombs, also called a nuclear bomb
• Purple Heart medal


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


  Japanese word meaning suicide
• POW


  Prisoner of War
• ICBM


  Inter-continental ballistic missiles
• MAD


  Mutually assured destruction
• Sputnik


  The Russians launched the first satellite into space, called Sputnik
• "Stars and Stripes"


  The American flag
• The B-29 Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima


  6 August 1945
• This was the first nuclear attack in history
• The bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Both were used by the United States near the end of World War II

  1945
• Albert Einstein was not directly involved in the making of the nuclear bombs but his scientific theories were used to create the first nuclear bomb
• Only two nuclear weapons have ever been used during war
• The war in the Pacific Ocean continued after Germany's surrender on 7 May 1945
• Japanese refused to surrender
• By this point in the Pacific War, the US forces, with the help from its Allies, had regained most of the territories that Japan had invaded such as the Philipine Islands,Borneo and Burma
• In response to Japan's refusal to surrender, the US forces attacked the Japanese home islands, such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa
• The Japanese resisted fiercely and over 100 000 soldiers on both sides were killed
• In an attempt to force the Japanese to surrender, the US air force intensified its bombing on the Japanese mainland
• But still the Japanese would not surrender
• The USA said it had identified Hiroshima, as a city that had many weapons factories
• In addition, the US dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki - a city the USA identified as having dockyards that built warships for Japan - on 9 August