today we continued our cold war presentations.
Nuclear Arms Race-
-happened during the cold war
-the US and the Soviet Union were racing to build as many nuclear weapons as they could
-they believed that the more weapons you had the more power you have
-many other countries were trying to produce them but did not produce as much
-the manhattan project during WWII was the first nuclear weapon ever createdd
-if the Soviets came out with a new bomb, the US would follow and if the US would come out with a new bomb, the Soviets would come out with a new bomb.
-many things to help improve the carrying of the bombs and the bombs themselves were produced to try to "out-do" the other country
-many things were done in countries to help prevent bomb destruction. like bomb shelters
-large radar systems were built to detect nuclear weapons
-citizens were taught how to react to a nuclear bomb
-many retaliation techniques were used
Cuban Missle Crisis-
-closest the world has ever come to a nuclear war
-the Soviet Union was believed to have places nulcear weapons on cuba and pointed them toward the US
-they did this because they were way behind in the nuclear arms race
-the actual began on October 15, 1962
-JFK was the president during this time
-he stated that all missles launched from cuba would still be considered a USSR attack and he ordered all missles removed
-the first reponse was to blockade cuba to prevent more missles from getting to cuba
-the whole thing was seen as a "waste of time" once russia had removed the missles
-the soviet leader and JFK sent many letters back a forth proposing deals
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