Cuban Missile Crisis
Who won the Cuban Missile crisis?
The United States.
Who did the US attack?
Japan
What does MAD stand for?
Mutually Assured Destruction
What year did the US and USSR agre to ban Nuclear weapons?
1963
What year was the Cuban Missile crisis?
1962
What started the US in the Arms Race?
The invention of the Hydrogen Bomb and competition.
What is MAD?
a U.S. doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the U.S. and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack.
What year was the Manhattan Project/First atomic bomb invention?
1942
How did the US react to the nuclear weapons in Cuba?
They set up a Naval Block and surrounded Cuba with ships.
Between what years did the US control every nuclear weapon?
1945-1949
How did Mutually Assured Destruction contribute to the Nuclear arms race?
What years were the "Nuclear testing Boom"?
1958-1960
True or False: The soviet Union sent animals into space
True
What kind of plane photographed the Nuclear missile sites in Cuba?
American U-2 spy plane
How did the arms race affect US citizens?
They feared that a nuclear war could erupt at any time.
What was the NPT treaty?
An international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev
When was the hydrogen bomb tested?
1952
What year did the Soviet Union explode their first atomic bomb?
1949