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Cold War :)
Term | Definition |
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NATO | Military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States, and Canada which are against Communism and the warsaw pact. |
Iron Curtain | A line separating Democracy (Eastern side of Europe) and Communism (Western side of Europe). |
Sputnik | The first satellite in space launched by the Soviet Union. |
Baby Boom | a period of sharp increase in the birthrate, as that in the U.S. following World War II. |
Arms Race | competition between United States and Soviet Union to achieve superiority in quantity and quality of military arms. |
Truman Doctrine | |
38th Parallel | |
Containment | |
Interstate Highway Act | |
McCarthyism | |
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CIA | United States spy agency created after WWII |
Warsaw Pact | an organization formed in Warsaw, Poland (1955), comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the U.S.S.R., for collective defense under a joint military command. |