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Unit 6
terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| red scare | fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life |
| McCarthyism | negative catchword for extreme, reckless charges of disloyalty |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | policy of President Eisenhower that stated that the United States would use force to help any nation threatened by communism |
| limited war | war fought to achieve only specific goals, that doesn't use all of their weapons |
| satellite state | independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation |
| arms race | contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons |
| mutually assured destruction (M.A.D.) | policy in which the United States and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another |
| productivity | the rate at which goods are produced or services performed |
| demobilizing | sending home members of the army |
| Fair Deal | President Truman's legislative program that would strengthen existing New Deal reforms and establish new programs, such as national health insurance |
| closed shop | company that only hires union workers |
| nuclear family | ideal or typical household with a father, mother and children father brings in the income and the mother stays home |
| service sector | businesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods |
| multinational corporation | companies that produce and sell their goods and services all over the world |
| franchise business | allows a company to distribute it products or services through retails outlets owned by independent operations |
| baby boom | increase in births between 1945 and 1964 |
| consumerism | large-scale buying, much of it on credit |
| urban renewal | government programs for redevelopment of urban areas |
| information industries | businesses that provide informational services |
| inner city | referred to the older, central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, usually minority, groups live |
| assimilate | to be absorbed into the main culture of society |
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