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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10 Chicken and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After WWI what did the U.S. push to develop in the hopes of gaining an edge over the Soviet Union?
(a) ICBMs.
(b) MIRVs.
(c) The atom bomb.
(d) The hydrogen bomb.

2. In what year did North Korea invade South Korea to start the Korean War?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1947.

3. A study commissioned to find out how many bombs the U.S. had available reported that a total of 300 to 600 bombs were available in what year?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1949.

4. Who played an unintentional role in resolution of the public nuclear game of chicken?
(a) Russell.
(b) Godel.
(c) Nash.
(d) von Neumann.

5. John von Neumann helped a company move its _____ computers to digital, stored binary computers.
(a) Graphics systems.
(b) Relay-based.
(c) Transistor.
(d) Analog.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invited von Neumann to join the Manhattan Project?

2. What country did some feel stood in the way of a world government and should be bombed?

3. Which one of von Neumann's colleagues, though a left wing pacifist, joined with him in advocating preventative nuclear war against the Soviet Union?

4. What was the bomb called that von Neumann developed which became the basis for later nuclear device development?

5. What war between the Allied and Axis powers was going on when von Neumann was invited to become part of the Manhattan Project?

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