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Cold War
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Baby boom | Increase in births between 1945 and 1964 |
| Consumerism | Large scale buying especially on credit |
| Nuclear family | I deal or typical household with a father mother and children |
| Space race | The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop the technology to successfully land on the moon |
| Blacklist | List of persons who were not hired because of suspected communist ties |
| Interstate highway act | 1956 law that authorizes the spending of 32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway |
| Mutually assured destruction | Policy in which the United States and the Soviet union hopes to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another |
| Brinkmanship | Belief that only by going to the brink of war could the United states protect itself from communist aggression |
| Iron curtain | Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states and Western Europe |
| NATO | North Atlantic treaty organization which is described to be. A military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion |
| Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states |
| Eisenhower doctrine | Policy of President Eisenhower that stated that the United States would use force to help any nation threatened by communism |
| Truman doctrine | President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements |
| Arms race | Contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons |
| 38th parallel | Dividing line between North and South Korea |
| Limited war | War fought to achieve only specific goals |
| Marshall plan | Foreign-policy that offered economic aid to western European countries after World War II |
| Cold war | Worldwide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union |
| Satellite state | Independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation |
| IBCM | Missile powerful enough to travel from one continent to another |