Arms Race Flashcards
National Interest: each country saw the arms race as a chance to…..
Raise their national profile
National Interest: who were the us and ussr trying to impress?
The third World
National Interest: what was launched in 1957?
Sputnik
National Interest: What is the term used about Khrushchev boasting?
Potemkinism
National Interest: what is the term used by Eisenhower?
Military Industrial Complex
National Interest: how many American were employed in the military industry?
30 million
National Interest:How much was spent on the military by 1952?
$50 billion
National Interest: who gained influence in governments?
Military firms
Culture of secrecy and suspicion: what was the report called?
Gaither Report 1957
Culture of secrecy: Who coined “missile gap”
Kennedy
Culture of secrecy: how many warheads did both countries have by 1962?
USA - 4000
USSR - 220
Culture of secrecy: how many ICBMs did USA and USSR have in 1960?
US - 20
USSR - 30
Culture of secrecy: how many ICBMs did USA and USSR have in 1962?
USA - 295
USSR - 75
International interests: what did both countries believe nuclear superiority would guarantee them?
Defensive needs
International tensions: what did Khrushchevs boasting do?
Made USA feel the need to build more nuclear weapons
International tensions: what is an example of international tensions?
Cuban missile crisis 1962
What did the USA find in Cuba?
Soviet medium range missiles
What do Kennedy order around Cuba?
A blockade
How many ICBMs were aimed at SU?
150
What did the crisis illustrate?
The dangers of using brinkmanship in an era of nuclear weapons
What is brinkmanship?
The practice of pushing dangerous events to the brink of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome.
What are the three main factors to why the Arms race happened?
National Interests
International tensions
Culture of secrecy
