Nuclear Arms and Space Race during the Cold War

The space race was part of what larger conflict?

• Cold War

• WWII

• Vietnam

• Korean War

• War on Terror

Which conflict brought the world to the brink of nuclear war?

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Berlin Airlift

Mutually assured destruction means

• both sides can win

• you fire all your best weapons first in hopes to annihilate

• you agree ahead of time to lose

• neither will attack because both have enough weapons to destroy the other

As part of Detente, Nixon was the first US President to

• Win in Vietnam

• Increase production of ICBMs

• visit China and meet Chairman Mao

• None of the above

What was the nickname for the agreements that limited the number of nuclear missiles held by the U.S. and the Soviet Union?

• Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.)

• Shared Armament De-Escalation (S.A.D.)

• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I & II)

• Please-Avoid-Bombing-Lands-Obviously (P.A.B.L.O.)

The "arms race" raised tensions because

• it was an agreement to get rid of weapons

• it encouraged each to put a man in space

• it was a competition to make more and better weapons than each other

• they were racing to see who could gain land in China

Under this process, the US and USSR eased tensions and agreed to limit the production of nuclear weapons.

• MAD

• Detente

• Deterrent

• ICBM

What was the nickname given to Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI), which proposed nuclear defence from space?

• Space Force

• Star Wars

• Star Trek

• Ender's Game

How did the US discover that nuclear missile sites were being built in Cuba?

• from American CIA spies in Cuba posing as farmers

• from US spy satellites

• from listening in on secret Soviet-Cuban radio transmissions

• from photographs taken from an American U-2 spy plane

As a part of the agreement that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. agreed to ____.

• be friends with the Soviet Union

• remove their missiles from Italy and Turkey

• allow USSR to keep missiles in Cuba

• not complain about the missiles anymore