1) During which war did the US begin developing the atomic bomb? Who was president of the US at the time?
1) During which war did the US begin developing the atomic bomb? Who was president of the US at the time?
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Transcribed Image Text:abolition of nuclear weapons
1989
Soviet Union collapses; Cold War ends with the fall of the Berlin Wall
1991
START Treaty is signed by President Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev,
drastically reducing the number of nuclear warheads each country owned;
nuclear war between the US and Soviet Union is no longer a major threat
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1) During which war did the US begin developing the atomic bomb? Who was president of
the US at the time?
2) Which US president made the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
3) During which two decades of the 1900's was the threat of nuclear war the greatest?
4) Which treaties reduced the nuclear weapons capabilities of both the US and the Soviet
Union?
5) Review the image included on the next page. Which event of the nuclear arms Race do
you think this image represents? Identify and explain the use of two symbols by the
cartoonist to depict tensions in the nuclear arms race of the Cold War.
US President John F. Kennedy
Soviet
Leader Nikita
Khrushchev

Transcribed Image Text:2) Which US president made the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
3) During which two decades of the 1900's was the threat of nuclear war the greatest?
4) Which treaties reduced the nuclear weapons capabilities of both the US and the Soviet
Union?
5) Review the image included on the next page. Which event of the nuclear arms Race do
you think this image represents? Identify and explain the use of two symbols by the
cartoonist to depict tensions in the nuclear arms race of the Cold War.
US President John F. Kennedy
Soviet
Leader Nikita
Khrushchev
Hydrogen Bomb labelled
USA (United States)
Hydrogen Bomb labelled
"ÚSSR" (Soviet Union)
Cartoon: "Arm Wrestling for World Domination" published in Daily Mail (British
Newspaper) in October 1962, Captioned: "Okay Mr. President, Let's Talk"
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