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Cold War
Term | Definition |
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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. |