Treaties
a treaty between 189 countries to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
What is the Nuclear-Non Proliferation Treaty?
The certainty that if one country were to attack another country with nuclear weapons, the other country would retaliate.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction
The first city ever to be attacked with a nuclear bomb on August 6, 1945
What is Hiroshima?
an organization created in 1949 in order to protect the United States, Canada, and Western Europe against the Soviet Union.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
An item sold illegally, such as drugs or illegal animal products, are said to be sold on the ____________?
What is the Black Market?
a treaty that BANNED all testing of nuclear weapons
What is the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty?
North Korea is a rouge nation, and Pakistan and India have had tensions with each other.
What are concerns about India, Pakistan, North Korea
The second city to ever get attacked by a nuclear weapon, August 9, 1945, Japan surrendered after this
What is Nagasaki?
the Manhattan Project was based in this city
Where is Los Alamos?
Weapons that are non-nuclear
What are conventional weapons?
a treaty in response to NATO, a military pact between the Soviet Union and other communist countries
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Developed by President Eisenhower, the certainty that if the Soviet Union were to launch a nuclear attack on the United States, the US would attack 118 Soviet cities, which would kill about 60 million people.
What is Massive Retaliation?
1945; a competition in developing and accumulating weapons, between US and Soviet Union
What is the Arms Race?
What was the cost of the Manhattan Project?
What is 2 billion dollars?
What is nuclear proliferation?
a treaty signed by the USSR, US, and UK that LIMITED nuclear testing, and where it was acceptable
What is the Limited Test Ban Treaty?
a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism.
What is containment?
October 16-28,1962; lasted 13 days, Soviet Union had missiles in Cuba, and threatened Florida with them
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
the scientist who was crucial to the Manhattan Project
Who was Albert Einstein?
a collection of weapons and military equipment stored by a country, person, or group
What is an arsenal?
the best treaty created
What is Mrs. Ramel's period 8 class?
a strategy where countries use the threat of nuclear war to keep another country from attacking them.
What is deterrence?
What event began the United State's involvement in World War II?
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
What was the program created to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world?
What is the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program?
What was the United States' policy at the beginning of World War II?
What is isolationism?