Nuclear Arms Race Since 1945

1. Explain how Dragonfire's report on October 11, 2001 highlighted a new threat from nuclear weapons.                 
 The dragonfire report was a report which claimed that Al Queda had brought a nuclear bomb into NYC. This event had brought this new threat of nuclear weapons that terrorist may use the nuclear weapons against the US and its allies. Also this caused a new danger of nuclear weapons complicating nation’s foreign affairs with one another

2. Why is proliferation such a strong concern for the United States?              
     Proliferation was a strong concern for the United States because the USSR might spread nuclear weapons to their communist allies who were not capable or did not yet have the technology which could bring the capitalist and communist world against one another in a full out end of the world nuclear war. 

3. What is deterrence?                   
   Deterrence was an idea that US air force strategist came up with saying that if one side were to launch a nuclear weapon at the other, and in retaliation the other nation would fire one back to devastate the initial attacker, both nations would fear total annihilation, and both sides would deterred from attacking.


4. Explain the importance of the Cuban Missile Crisis.                   
     
The importance of the Cuban Missile crisis is that this was the closest the US and the Soviet Union were to having a nuclear war and turning the Cold War into nothing but a humanity war. Also this ended the connection between the Cuban nation and the US, when JFK placed a trade embargo on Cuba which is still in existence today. 

5. President John F. Kennedy worried that twenty-five nations would have nuclear weapons by the 1970s. Why do you think his worry did not come to pass?                           
Kennedy's worry of the twenty-five nations having nuclear weapons by the 1970's did not come true because the US and the USSR agreed not to spread nuclear weapons or materials to their allies which without many nations would/will not be able to develop these weapons                          


6. What was the Cold War? How long did it last?                      
 The Cold War was the war which was never fought on a battlefield between the Capitalist US and the communist USSR. Although the two never fought head to head on the battlefield, both nations fought like the US in Korea and in Vietnam against the spreading of communism around the world.The Cold War raged from 1945 at the end of WWII to 1991 when the USSR collapsed

War for Europe and North Africa

1. Why had the tide turned in the Battle of the Atlantic by mid-1943?    

The tide had turned in the Battle of the Atlantic by mid-1943 by the Allies organizing their cargo ships into conveys. The conveys were escorted across the Atlantic with sonar for detecting under water submarines, and with also airplanes that had radars which could spot U-boats on the ocean's surface. With this they could find and destroys Germany's U-boats faster than they could rebuild them.


2. What two key decisions determined the final outcome at Stalingrad?      
The two key decisions that determined the final outcome at Stalingrad were that Hitler and his troops decided to control the city of Stalingrad and had almost conquered it until winter and the Soviet's trapped them in the city with their tanks so that there was no way that the German's could get out. 

3. What was the outcome of the North African campaign?       
The Outcome of the North African campaign was that America and Britain ended up conquering the North African front. 

4. What were the results of the Italian campaign?    
The result of the Italian campaign was that Mussolini was arrested and stripped from his title of being Italy's dictator.     
    

5. Was the Allied invasion of Europe successful? Explain your answer.    
The allied invasion of Europe was successful  because they were able to free some European countries such as France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
       

6. Why was the Battle of the Bulge important?    
The battle of the bulge was important because it was shown that the Nazi's could be beat and they also lost a lot of men and supplies that they had to rebuild and regain.          


7. What the significance of V-E day?       
The significance of V-E day is that Hitler was died, the concentration and death camps came to an end and the European war was over.   


8. Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?  
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the American general that commanded the invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa.          


9. Do you agree with the decision made by Roosevelt and Churchill to require unconditional surrender by the Axis powers? Why or why not?        

I agree with the decision made by Roosevelt and Churchill to require the unconditional surrender by the Axis powers because it showed all of the other countries that they should be afraid of America and Britain