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Cold War
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Baby boom | Increase in births between 1945 and 1964. |
| Consumerism | Large-scale buying, much of it on credit. |
| Nuclear family | Ideal or typical household with a father, mother, and children. |
| Space race | The competition between the US 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 authorizon the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000miles of highway. |
| Mutually assured destruction | Policy in which the US and the Soviet Union hoped to weapons to destory on another. |
| Brinkmanship | Belief that only by going to the brink of war could the US protect itself against communist aggression. |
| Iron Curtain | Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Sovet satellite states and Western Europe. |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion. |
| Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of the Soviet Union and it's satellite states. |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | Policy of president Eisenhower that stated that the US would you send foresee to help any nation threatened by communism. |
| Truman Doctrine | President Truman's promise to help meeting struggling against communist movements. |
| Arms race | Contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons. |
| 38th Parallel | Formed the border 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 WW2. |
| Cold War | Worldwide rivalry between US and Soviet Union. |
| Satellite State | Independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation. |
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. A guided missile primarily designed for nu clear weapons delivery. |