The Arms Race: 1950-58

Question 1

When were the first nuclear bombs developed by both sides

Answer 1

• 1945 USA atom bomb

- 1949 USSR atom bomb

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 on
  developing conventional and nuclear weapons and
  armies
• Led to a change in thinking about war (they acted as a
  detterent to war)

Question 3

Which president took over from Truman in 1953

Answer 3

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

Question 4

When did Stalin die?

Answer 4

1953

Question 5

When Stalin died who took over leadership of the USSR?

Answer 5

Krushchev in 1956 (followed by a policy of

de-Stalininisation)