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100 Cards in this Set
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Who was the youngest president ever elected? |
John F Kennedy |
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What was JFK before becoming president? |
Repreesntative and senator of Massachusetts |
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Who was JFK's wife? |
Jacqueline Bovier |
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What was JFK known for? |
His heroic war effort. |
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Most famous quote by JFK? |
"Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country." |
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Where was JFK's famous quote said? |
At his inauguration |
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What is mutual assured destruction? |
A doctrine of military strategy in which full scale use of nuclear weapons would result in both parties/countires being destroyed. |
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What is theory of deterrence? |
The deployment of strong weapons with the assumption that it it essential to threaten the enemy to prevent the use of the very same weapon. |
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Arms race |
a competition between two or more countries for military supremacy. |
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yield |
the amount of energy discharged when a nuclear weapon is detonated |
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ton |
yield equal to the detonation of 100 tons of TNT |
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TNT stands for? |
trinitrotoluene |
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kiloton |
1000 ton yield |
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megaton |
1000 kiloton yield |
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ICBM stands for what? |
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
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What is a ICBM? |
A very long range ballistic missile designed for nuclear weapon delivery |
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An atomic bomb gets it's energy from? |
Fission |
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What is fission? |
when a large atomic nucleus splits to form two smaller ones. |
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How is atomic energy measured? |
In Kilotons |
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Hydrogen bombs get their energy from? |
Fussion |
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What is fusion? |
when nuclei of atoms join together. |
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What is the kind of weapon is the hydrogen bomb known as? |
thermonuclear weapon |
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A bomb must be exploded first to generate the enormous heat needed to set off what kind of bomb? |
hydrogen |
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How is H bomb power measured? |
In megatons |
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Who exploded the most powerful H bomb? |
The Soviets in 1961 it was 60 megatons |
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When was the Cuban missile crisis? |
1962 |
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What power did America claim over Cuban in 1962? |
Power to interfere and keep naval bases there |
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Who was the general who led a revolt against Cuba? |
Fulgencio Batista |
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Who led a revolt against Batista? |
Fidel Castro |
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Why were Cubans not happy about Americans being there? |
Soldiers were stationed there for 40 years and we ran many of their biggest companies like the telephone company and sugar plantations |
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At the beginning of WWII cubans voted on what? |
A new constitution |
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What happened when Basista led the military revolt against the President of Cuba? |
They announced the constitution was no longer in effect. |
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Was Castro's revolt against Batista successful? |
No, it was a disaster |
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What happened to Fidel Castro |
He was convicted and sentenced to prision for 15 years |
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What did Castro do at his trial? |
He spoke for 2 hours and called for a return of the constitution. |
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How long did Castro serve in prision? |
2 years |
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Where did Castro and other revolutionaries go after he got out of prision? |
Mexico |
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Who was the other main revolutionary that went to Mexico with Castro? |
Che Guevara |
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What do Castro and Guevara do in Mexico? |
Help train the revolutionaries in guerrilla warfare. |
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How did the US withdraw it's support from Batista? |
It decides to no longer sell weapons to Batista. |
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When Castro regained control of Cuba did he put the constitution back in effect? |
No |
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What does Castro turn Cuba into? |
A communist country |
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What started happening in Cuba when it started turning communist? |
Thousands of people began to flee. |
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Bay of Pigs Who? |
Cuban and The US |
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Bay of Pigs What? |
Plan to train Cuban soldiers to land in Bay of Pigs and set up a military government to overthrow Castro |
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Bay of Pigs Where? |
A beach called the Bay of Pigs. |
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Bay of Pigs When? |
April 1961 |
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Bay of Pigs Why? |
The US was worried about Cuba's friendly relationship with Russia because Cuba was so close to the US. |
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Bay of Pigs End Result? |
It was a disaster. Word got out and Castro's soldiers were waiting for them. Everyone was killed or take prision. |
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Who did Castro turn to for support after the Bay of Pigs? |
SOviet Union |
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Who was the leader of the Soviet Union at the time? |
NIkita Khruschev |
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What did Khrushchev shout at a US rep during a meeting? |
We will bury you! |
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What did US spy planes see when they flew over Cuba in October 1962? |
They saw nuclear bombers and missiles in Cuba |
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Where were the controls for the weapons they say in Cuba? |
In the Soviet Union |
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What was JFK's response to finding these missiles? |
He sent ships to surround Cuba |
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Cuban Missil Crisis Who? |
Cuba US Russia |
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Cuban Missile Crisis What? |
When spy planes saw missiles in Cuba with controls in Russia. JFK sent ships to surround Cuba and told The Soviets that any weapon landing on US soil would result in a full attack. |
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Cuban Missile Crisis When? |
October 1962 |
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Cuban MIssile Crisis Where? |
Cuba and US |
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Cuban Missile Crisis Why? |
To keep the whole world from being blown up and destroyed |
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Cuban Missile Crisis End Result? |
There was a standoff for 13 tense days. The Soviet Union reacted first. Soviets said they would take back their weapons if the US promised not to invade Cuba. |
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Who reacted or blinked first? |
The Soviet Union reacted first |
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Who launched the first man made satellite? |
Russia |
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What was the Russian satellite called? |
Sputnik |
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What does Sputnik mean? |
Fellow traveler |
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What was the second Russian satellite called? |
Sputnik II |
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What was special about Sputnik II |
It had a dog (Laika) aboard |
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Why did the news of the Russian satellite scare the US? |
They realized that the Soviets had better space technology and they could use the satellites to carry weapons |
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What did US Congress create in response to the Space Race? |
NASA |
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What does NASA stand for? |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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What did Congress pass in response to the space race? |
National Defense Education Act |
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What would the National Defense Education Act do? |
Give money to schools for teaching science |
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Who was the first man to go to space? |
Yuri Gargarin |
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What year did Yuri go to space? |
1961 |
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What was JFK's response to the soviets manned space flight? |
He challenged congress to send a man to the moon within 8 years |
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What was the name of the US space ship that landed on the moon? |
Apollo 11 |
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When did the Apollo 11 land on the moon? |
July 16 1969 |
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Who was the first man to walk on the moon? |
Neil Armstrong |
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What did Neil Armstrong say when he took his first step> |
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind |
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When was JFK shot? |
November 22 1963 |
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Who was one of the most popular president ins US history? |
JFK |
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What were three things JFK was known for? |
war hero, writing 2 books and winning the pulitzer prize |
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Where was JFK when he was shot? |
Dallas Texas |
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Who was with JFK in the car? |
His wife Jaqueline, Governor Connally of Texas and his wife. |
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Where was the car when shots were fired? |
It had just passed the Texas School Book Depository. |
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How many time was the president shot? |
Twice once in the head and once in the neck. |
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Was anyone else shot when JFK was hit? |
Yes, the governor in the back |
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Who was sworn in and where? |
Lyndon B Johnson on Air Force One |
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Who was arrested for shooting JFK? |
Lee Harvey Oswald |
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What happened to Lee Harvy Oswald? |
He was shot |
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Who shot Lee Harvey Oswald? |
Jack Ruby |
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What happened to Jack Ruby? |
He died of a blood clot before he could be convicted |
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Where was JFK buried |
Arlington National Cemetery |
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What was the mythical kingdom that JFK's presidency was compared to? |
Camalot |
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Where had the US secretly had missiles that would have been a threat to the Soviets? |
Turkey |
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What happened to the missiles in turkey? |
Kennedy secretly agreed to remove them after the Cuba missile crisis |
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Four Presidents from 1945-1968 |
Truman Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson
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Date-Death of JFK? |
NOvember 22, 1963 |
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Date Man on the Moon? |
July 16, 1969 |
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Date Cuban Missile Crisis |
October 1962 |
