Cold war
a rivalry between the United States and Russia
The cold war
What is Cuba?
The island where the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles.
The competition to build more nuclear weapons.
What is the arms race?
The agreement that banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, underwater, and outer space.
What is the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
U.S. president who dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
The two countries competing for power during the Cold War.
Who were the United States and the Soviet Union?
Who was John F. Kennedy?
The U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The country that competed with the U.S. in the arms race.
What is the Soviet Union?
The year the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed.
What is 1963?
Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
These powerful weapons made countries afraid of going to war.
What are nuclear weapons?
What happened 1962?
The year the Cuban Missile Crisis happened.
Both countries kept building these because they wanted to stay powerful.
What are nuclear missiles?
This agreement, signed in 1972, limited anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems and placed the first limits on certain U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons.
What is SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks I)?
Kennedy wanted this instead of nuclear war.
What was peace?
The idea that both sides would be destroyed if they started a nuclear war.
What is Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)?
What was a naval blockade (quarantine)?
Instead of invading Cuba, Kennedy ordered this around the island.
The fear caused by the arms race.
What was nuclear war?
The direct phone line created between Washington and Moscow after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is the Hot Line?
Khrushchev agreed to remove missiles from this country.
What is Cuba?
The main goal of U.S. nuclear diplomacy in the 1960s.
What was preventing nuclear war?
The crisis ended after the Soviet Union agreed to do this.
What was remove its missiles from Cuba?
One reason the U.S. and Soviet Union later wanted arms control.
What was to reduce the risk of nuclear war?
Although this treaty was signed in 1979 to limit strategic nuclear weapons, it was never ratified by the U.S. Senate after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
What is SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II)?
These two leaders worked together to avoid nuclear war after the missile crisis.
Who were John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev?