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22 Cards in this Set
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Date: USSR detonates first A-Bomb |
August 1949 |
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Year: Americans expected the Russians to have their first A-Bomb |
1953 |
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What was the policy of Constant Readiness? |
US Strategic Air Command (SAC) Decide on 6000 targets to be hit in USSR in case of war |
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Year: SAC decide on policy of Constant Readiness |
1951 |
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Date: USA Detonates its first Hydrogen Bomb |
November 1952 |
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Date: USSR Detonates its first Hydrogen Bomb |
August 1953 |
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Date: USA develops H-Bomb small enough to be dropped from bomber |
March 1954 |
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Date: USSR drops test H-Bomb from a bomber |
September 1954 |
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Which year did U2 planes begin their reconnaissance over the USSR? |
1956 |
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Date: Russian development of ICBMs |
May 1957 |
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Where did the development of ICBMs take place? |
Secret base in Baykonyr, Kazakhstan |
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Date: Sputnik I |
October 1957 |
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Date: Sputnik II |
November 1957 |
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Year: NASA launched |
1958 |
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Date: Explorer Satellite (USA) launched |
February 1958 |
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Who was the first man in space? |
Yuri Gagarin |
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Date: First man in space |
April 1961 |
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Which missiles could reach the USSR as Russian missiles could supposedly reach the USA? Which year were these developed? |
Atlas and Minuteman missiles. Developed in 1959 |
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Years: Apollo Missions |
1961-1975 |
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By which year had the USA gained a lead in ICBMs? |
1962 |
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What were the benefits to both countries of the Space Race? |
Domestic and international propaganda Encouraged more education, engineering and innovation which could be applied to the military. This sped up the development of propulsion technology for the delivery of nuclear weapons. |
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Benefits of the Polaris submarine-based missiles. (1961) |
Harder to locate exact position of launch Easier to get closer to target |
