Competition Padlet by Jonna Cordova https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s en-us 2022-04-08 19:05:00 UTC 2025-11-27 18:45:51 UTC hello@padlet.com 1) What is an arms race? 25cordovaj https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136828632 When two or more countries build up their military to gain military superiority over the other]]> 2022-04-08 19:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136828632 2) Historically, how did the dreadnought create an arms race? 25cordovaj https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136829800 Germany and Britain started a shipbuilding arms race. It focused on a form of new battleships. 
Britain had developed the dreadnought - ship designed with heavy guns

]]> 2022-04-08 19:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136829800 3) How did the Treaty of Versailles actually start an arms race? 25cordovaj https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136832615 The Treaty of Versailles made Germany hand over their territories, limited them on arms, military, equipment, and made them pay reparations ($33 billion dollars). Germany was angry, Hitler began to rise, and he violated the treaty by rearming Germany

]]> 2022-04-08 19:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136832615 4) How did the atomic bomb help destroy a friendship between the US and USSR? When would the Soviets test their own bomb? 25cordovaj https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136833513 The leader of the Soviet Union felt threatened and was scared of the US´s power. This created distrust between the two nations. The Soviet Union started experimenting with nuclear tech in 1943.

]]> 2022-04-08 19:17:54 UTC https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136833513 5) What is an ICBM? What did it add to the arms race? 25cordovaj https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136836517 (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile)
ICBM´s could transport and deliver nukes

]]> 2022-04-08 19:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136836517 6)What did the Cuban Missile Crisis have to do with the US and USSR? How would this be an important moment in the arms race? 25cordovaj https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136837379 The Cuban Missile Crisis almost brought the US and USSR to war because the Soviet Union because the Soviets had ballistic missiles placed in Cuba]]> 2022-04-08 19:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136837379 7) Ways that arms race created competition between US and USSR? 25cordovaj https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136844530 At first the US had possession of atomic weapons. The USSR saw that and decided to create an Atomic Bomb and drop it. The US then made a Hydrogen Bomb which made the USSR start experimenting more nuclear technology. This went on and just kept going back and forth as each country kept creating bigger and better weapons to one up each other.]]> 2022-04-08 19:29:17 UTC https://padlet.com/25cordovaj/d8bycrx6aqjnoj8s/wish/2136844530