Arms Race Quiz

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1Who was the Nuclear Arms race between?
1. AUSSR and USA
2. BAmerica and Britain
3. CThe Soviet Union and Russia
4. DFrance and the USSR
2Fill in the definition: _______ denotes the rapid increase in the quantity or quality of instruments of military power by rival states in peacetime.
1. AA Nuclear Fallout
2. BThe Cold War
3. CAn Arms Race
4. DAn Armistice
3The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Osaka in Japan.
1. ATrue
2. BFalse
4Who is this?
1. APresident John F. Kennedy
2. BLt Colonel Stanislav Petrov
3. CValentina Tereshekova
5What is an ICBM?
1. AInternational Crime Branch of Monitoring
2. BIntercontinental Crazy Big Missile
3. CInter-Continental Ballistic Missile
6America paused their nuclear campaign in the mid-60s for almost a decade.
1. ATrue
2. BFalse
7What did Sputnik 2 carry into space in November 1957?
1. AA chimpanzee
2. BA sheep
3. CA dog
4. DA plant
8By 1962, USA had 11,300 nuclear weapons.
1. ATrue
2. BFalse
9America dropped their H-Bomb, how many years after the start of the Korean War?
1. A1
2. BJust over 1
3. C3
4. D2
10What is this?
1. AAn American B-52 plane
2. BA Soviet TU-95 plane
3. CA CIA U2