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Cold war
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Baby Boom | Increase in births between 1945 and 1964 |
| Consumerism | Large-scale, muchof of it on credit |
| Nuclear family | Ideal or typical household with a father, mother, and children |
| Space race | The competition between the United States and Soviet Union to develop the technology to successfully land on the moon |
| Black list | 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 build 41,000 miles of highway |
| Mutually assured destruction | Policy in which the United States and the Soviet Union hoped 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 against communist aggression |
| Iron curtain | Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states and western Europe |
| NATO | Military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion |
| 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 | Border between N. Korea and S. Korea prior to the Korean war |
| Limited War | War fought to achieve only specific goals |
| Marshal plan | Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after WWII |
| Cold war | Worldwide rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union |
| Satellite state | Independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation |
| Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of the Soviet Union and it's satellite states |
| ICBM | Intercontinental ballistic missile with a minimum range of 3,400 miles |