Arms Race

Question 1

When did the USA drop the bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima?

Answer 1

1945

Question 2

When did the USSR develop their nuclear bomb?

Answer 2

1949- four years after USA

Question 3

When did the USA first launch their atomic bomb?

Answer 3

1945

Question 4

When did the USA make the worlds first hydrogen bomb?

Answer 4

November 1952

Question 5

When did the USSR create their hydrogen bomb?

Answer 5

1953

Question 6

What year did the USSR develop the worlds first ICMB?

Answer 6

1957

Question 7

What is an ICBM?

Answer 7

Inter-continental ballistic missile

Question 8

In what year did the soviets ‘bridge the gap’

Answer 8

1971

Question 9

What year was the vietnam war?

Answer 9

1965

Question 10

What year did the USA use U2 spy planes?

Answer 10

1957

Question 11

What year was there conflict in Korea?

Answer 11

1950

Question 12

What year was there a high chance of disarmament and what stopped it?

Answer 12

Mid 1950’s - The USSR did not agree with the USA’s conditions so the USA dropped their proposal

Question 13

What year did the USA and the USSR agree on a nuclear test ban?

Answer 13

1963

Question 14

Why did the 1963 nuclear testing ban fall apart?

Answer 14

Because Leonid Brezhnev increased soviet spending on defence and the relationship fell apart once again

Question 15

What year did the USA take arial photographs over Cuba?

Answer 15

1960’s

Question 16

How many feet were the aerial photographs taken from?

Answer 16

70,000 feet

Question 17

In what year was the USA spending $11 billion on defence?

Answer 17

1948

Question 18

In what year was the USA spending $50 billion on defence?

Answer 18

1953

Question 19

USA spending on defence increased from $11 billion in 1948 to ?? In 1953

Answer 19

$50 billion