Vocabulary

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
-The Strategic Defense Defense Initiative(SDI) also known as Star Wars was a program first initicated on March 23, 1983 under president Ronald Reagan The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifially the Soviet Union.

Arms Race
- Competition between countries to achieve superiority quantity and quality of military arms.

Anti-ballistic Missile
- A defensive missile designed to intercept and destroy a ballistic missile in fight.


- A formation of troops, ships, airplanes in which groups of soldier or individual vehicles or craft are arranged in parallel lines.

Star Wars
- The United States of America weapons research program began in 1984 to explore technologies, including ground and space based for destroying attacking missilices and wearheeds.