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| 1396246280 | M.A.D. | a policy created in the 1950's that held that if The Soviet Union attacked the United States with nuclear weapons, the United States would fire back all of its weapons and 20-50% of the populations of both nations would be destroyed. | 0 | |
| 1396246282 | ballistic missile | A rocket-powered missile often carrying nuclear warheads that fall and land on its ground target | 1 | |
| 1396246283 | massive retaliation | Eisenhower's policy; it advocated the full use of American nuclear weapons to counteract even a Soviet ground attack in Europe | 2 | |
| 1396246284 | Tsar Bomb | the largest bomb ever built in 1961. Contained 50 million tons of TNT, caused atmospheric disturbance | 3 | |
| 1396246285 | No Cities Counterforce | Soviet cities were to no longer be targeted, only Soviet military forces. | 4 | |
| 1396246286 | Hot line | a communication link established in 1963 to allow the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union to contact each other in times of crisis | 5 | |
| 1396246287 | weakness | Soviets decided to never again confront US from a position of ____. | 6 | |
| 1396246288 | desire to avoid nuclear war | What was the most important thing that the US and Russia discovered that they had in common? | 7 | |
| 1396246289 | The War Game | Documentary-like film that depicted the build up and aftermath of a Soviet attack on Great Britain including interviews showing public nuclear thoughts at the time.Academy Award- Best Documentary in 1966, but was banned by BBC because it was to | 8 | |
| 1396246290 | Civil Defense | An organized system of emergency measures that volunteers take to help people with disasters. The US and Soviet public thought this would do little to no good in the case of a nuclear attack | 9 | |
| 1396246291 | broken arrow | An unexpected event involving nuclear weapons or nuclear components which might result in nuclear detonation, non-nuclear detonation, burning, or in radioactive contamination | 10 | |
| 1396246292 | ABM | missiles that could destroy ballistic missiles in flight. This put the delicate nuclear balance at risk. Destableized MAD | 11 | |
| 1396246293 | Nuclear Arms Race | the competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union for supremacy in nuclear warfare. Both countries tried to have the largest nuclear arsenals. | 12 | |
| 1396246294 | SALT | negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons 1970-1971 | 13 | |
| 1396246295 | Henry Kissinger | Advisor to Presidents Nixon and Ford; he was architect of the Vietnam settlement, the diplomatic opening to China, and détente with the Soviet Union. | 14 | |
| 1397238017 | Limited Test Banned Treaty | barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere. Testing would continue, but only underground | 15 | |
| 1397238018 | deterrence | the development and maintenance of military strength as a means of discouraging attack | 16 | |
| 1397238019 | What happened in 1966 over the coast of Spain? | Two B52s collided while refueling. Four H bombs were dropped, three were found on land and one was lost at sea. They were not detonated. | 17 | |
| 1397238020 | Multiple Reentry Vehicles | one missile could carry 10 separate warheads, each capable of destroying a city | 18 | |
| 1397238021 | By the height of the Arms Race, both the Soviet Union and the United States were spending ____ a day on nuclear armaments | $50 million | 19 | |
| 1397238022 | détente | French word meaning an easing of tensions between the world's superpowers during the Cold War | 20 | |
| 1397238023 | What was the real nuclear destabilizing element? Why? | MRVs. Because the US had them and the Soviet Union did not during the SALT talks, so they did not get discussed. They are also extremely expensive to produce. | 21 |
