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Cold War
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Baby boom | Increase in births between 1945 and 1965 |
| Consumerism | Large scale buying much of it was on credit |
| Nuclear family | Ideal or typical household with a father mother and children |
| Space race | The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develops 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 authorized the spending of $32 billion to 41,000 miles of highway |
| Mutually assured destruction | Policy in which the United States and Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building enough weapons to destroy each other |
| Brinkmanship | Belief that only by going to the brink of war could the United States protect itself against 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 |
| Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states |
| Eisenhower doctrine | Policy of president Eisenhower that states 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 |
| Limited War | War fought to achieve only specific goals |
| Marshal plan | Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after ww2 |
| Cold War | Worldwide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union |
| Satellite state | Independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation |
| ICBM | An intercontinental ballistic missile |