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Chapter 27 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| arms race | a growth in weapons based on the number of weapons an enemy country has |
| baby boom | a sharp increase in the number of American births during the 1950s and 1960s |
| beats | young people, many of whom were writers and artists, who discussed their dissatisfaction with the American Society |
| brinkmanship | the Cold War foreign policy designed to "get to the verge without getting into the war" |
| Cold War | a period of hostility between Western powers and Communist powers |
| containment | a foreign policy that attempts to stop the spread of communism without ending it in the countries in which it already exists |
| Fair Deal | President Truman's legislative plan for the nation that included antilynching laws |
| hydrogen bomb | a thermonuclear weapon that gets its powers from splitting a hydrogen atom |
| Marshall Plan | the idea that the U.S. could help rebuild wartorn Europe with loans and other economic aid |
| Nuremberg trials | the war crimes trials of Nazi leaders |
| Sputnik | the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 |
| 38th parallel | the boundary between North and South Korea before the Korean War |
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