The Arms Race 1950-1958

Question 1

When where nuclear bombs developed by both sides

Answer 1

-1945 USA atomic bomb
-1949 USSR atomic bomb
-1952 USA hydrogen bomb
-1953 USSR hydrogen bomb
-1957 USA ICBM (intercontinental ballistics missile)
-1957 USSR ICBM

Question 2

What were the effects of the arms race on both sides

Answer 2

-Each side became more powerful
-USA and USSR spent huge sums of money developing conventional and nuclear weapons and armies
-It led to a change in thinking about war they acted as a deterrent to war

Question 3

Which president took over from Truman in 1953

Answer 3

Eisenhower- he was fiercely anti-communist but open to talks between the two sides

Question 4

When Stalin died in 1953, who took over leadership of the USSR

Answer 4

Khrushchev in 1956- followed a policy of de-Stalinisation