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Flashcards by Izzy Noone, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Izzy Noone
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What was the cost of the Manhattan project? | $2 Billion |
| Give two reasons why the US dropped the atomic bombs | Military Japanese were unlikely to surrender and many US soldiers would have died/ Political-show off US power to USSR/ Economic- they had spent a lot of money developing it |
| What date was the Bomb dropped on Hiroshima | 6th August 1945 |
| Give one immediate impact of the bomb | Destroyed the city/ killed 80,000 people and 58000 people died in the days after |
| Give one long term impact of the bomb | Started the Nuclear Arms Race/ MAD theory |
| Describe the MAD theory | Mutually Assured Destruction/ Nuclear weapons were a deterrent/ Because they were so devastating neither side wanted to use them as everyone would be destroyed/ USA and USSR had enough weapons to destroy the world several times |
| What is a ICBM and MRBM? | Intercontinental Range Ballistic Missile and Medium Range Ballistic Missile |
| Why were the US so worried about missiles in Cuba? | If the USSR launched a "first strike" they could target most US cities and military sites |
| What does Detente mean? | A relaxing of relations (following the Cuban crisis) |
| How many countries signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty? | 100 |
| What was SALT 1? | Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, USA and USSR agreed to limit certain types of missiles |
| What was the highest point of Detente between the US and the USSR? | They ran a joint space mission (Apollo and Soyuz) in 1975 |
| Why did the Detente end? | The USSR invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Day 1979 |
| American President Reagan referred to the USSR as an "evil empire". How was Reagan described by Russian leaders? | As a "primitive, mentally retarded caveman" |
| Give two reasons why the USSR negotiated and signed peace treaties with the US in the late 1980s? | They couldn't keep up with the US superior technology known as Star Wars/ the war in Afghanistan had ruined the Russian economy/ Russian Premier Gorbachev positively wanted peace |
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