Arms Race- Cold War

What were the causes/start of the Arms Race? 

Select TWO

• North Korea building atomic weapons 

• Creation of the Trinity Bomb by the US

• • Use of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WWII

• The Soviet Union testing atomic weapons 

How were the Soviets able to accomplish the development of an atomic bomb so quickly?

• There were Soviet spies in America building the Manhattan Project.

• The Soviets were just creative.

• The Soviet's actually had the atomic bomb BEFORE the U.S.

• The Hawkins P.D. had helped the communists

What do you think the discovery of Soviet Spies will cause to happen in the U.S.?

The Hydrogen bomb was much more powerful than the Atomic bomb.

• True

• False

What new nuclear weapon was tested in the 1950s by the US?

• Atomic bomb

• Neutron bomb

• Hydrogen bomb

• Regular Bomb

What was mutual assured destruction in the Cold War?

• Mutual assured destruction was a military alliance formed to prevent nuclear war.
• Mutual assured destruction was a peace treaty signed during the Cold War.
• Both superpowers would ensure total destruction of each other in the event of a nuclear war.

• Mutual assured destruction involved only one superpower threatening the other.

What did the arms race shift to focus on by the 1960s?

• ICBMs to allow for long range attacks and Mutual assured destruction

• Ending the arms race

• Creating more weapons than North Korea

• Lasers in space similar to Star Wars

Both countries expanded their missiles and warheads in the next decade between ___.

• 1920-1930

• 1970-1990

• 1960-1970

• 1980-1990