Modern age

Modern Age.

How has the world changed since 1900?

Who shot the russian czar?

Who fought and died in the trenches?

Who made five years plans?

What was the cold war?

• The Cold War was a period of tension and subdued hostility which gripped most of the world between the 1940s and the early 1990s. The primary actors in the Cold War were the United States and its allies, countered by Russia and countries aligned with that nation. Rather than engaging in a potentially devastating out and out war, the countries involved in the Cold War jockeyed for position in more subtle ways. Many major events in global history including the rise of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis were related to the Cold War.

• The Cold War has its roots in the Second World War, when the Allied powers made an uneasy pact with Russia to defeat Germany and Italy. The Allied countries were concerned about joining forces with a Communist nation, and Russia was likewise hesitant about the agreement. After the Second World War, Germany was divided into territories occupied by the Allies and Russia, and the relationship started to go sour shortly after that.

The space race.• During the Cold War, both the United States

and the Soviet Union endeavored to demonstrate their power. The space race served as an opportunity for the two nations to showcase their scientific and technological capabilities. Amidst propaganda, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. competed for superiority in space as they constantly tried to top each other.

Who dropped the first atomic bomb

• "Who" is a relative question....."who" in the sense of what nation would be the United States which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan August 6,1945. The "who" in the sense of what person - is usually accredited to Col. Paul Tibbets US Army Air Forces, the commander of the aircraft named Enola Gay (after his mother) which carried and dropped the bomb. The Japanese had been given a surrender ultimatum, and when there was no response from their government a second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki Japan on Aug 9. Both were devastating in death and destruction and they remain the only time in history nuclear weapons were used against a population. These were both nuclear fission weapons. The Hiroshima bomb was a uranium-based device, the Nagasaki bomb used plutonium (derived from uranium).

• There continues to this day much controversy as to the need for using these weapons since Japan had already seen most of its major cities fire-bombed with conventional pyrotechnic weapons causing equal devastation and killing and maiming as many people. Despite the terrible results of these two bombs, they are mere toys compared with the hydrogen-based (thermonuclear) weapons developed during the cold war which are hundreds of times more fearsome in their potential for destruction.

VOCABULARY• Jockey: to attempt to get power or get into a better position than other people using any methods you can• Since the death of the president, opposition parties and the army have been jockeying for power.• As the singer came on stage, the photographers jockeyed for position at the front of the hall.• • Subdue: to reduce the force of something, or to prevent something from existing or developing• The fire burned for eight hours before the fire crews could subdue it.• He criticized the school for trying to subdue individual expression.• • Uneasy: If you are uneasy, you are slightly worried or uncomfortable about a particular situation• I feel a bit uneasy about asking her to do me such a big favour.• • Describes a situation or condition that makes people slightly worried, often because it may not continue successfully.• Who can predict how long this uneasy peace between the two countries will last?• She has a rather uneasy relationship with her mother-in-law.• Sour: unfriendly or easily annoyed• Overnight, it seemed, their relationship had turned/gone sour.• She gave me a sour look.• Maim: to injure a person so severely that a part of their body will no longer work as it should• Many children have been maimed for life by these bombs.• • Fearsome: frightening• a fearsome reputation• a fearsome display of violence• • • • •

answers

• 1.1 september• 2. The Empire of Japan • 3. 1941• 4. Italy • 5. Enola Gay • 6. Hawaii• 7. Russia • 8. FUBAR is an acronym that commonly means "fucked

up beyond all recognition/any repair/all reason".

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