The Arms Race and the Space Race

Question 1

In 1963, the United States and the Soviet Union signed a treaty stating that

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all nuclear testing would be held underground.

Question 2

The first person to orbit Earth in a spacecraft was

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Yuri Gagarin.

Question 3

Which of the following was a NASA program that served as a bridge between human space flight and the moon landing?

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Gemini

Question 4

Look at the graph.Based on the graph, defense spending in the United States

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increased during the arms race against the USSR.

Question 5

Which of the following was a consequence of testing the H-bomb?

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radiation sickness

Question 6

Why did the United States create the National Defense Education Act?

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to fund science education

Question 7

Why was the Gemini program valuable to future space programs?

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Gemini astronauts worked to perfect methods of re-entry and landing.

Question 8

Why did the US suffer a loss of confidence following the launch of Sputnik I?

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The US assumed that they would be first into space, before the Soviets.

Question 9

How does the concept of competition relate to the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

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The two nations wanted to outdo one another in the development and stockpiling of nuclear weapons, which drove the competition between them.

Question 10

How did the concept of mutually assured destruction influence the Cold War?

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It reminded people that a nuclear war would be devastating for everyone.

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