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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Baby boom | A period marked by a significant increase of birth rate |
| Consumerism | the protection or promotion of the interests of consumers. |
| Nuclear family | a couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit. |
| Space race | the competition between ( US and USSR) nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration. |
| Blacklist | a list of people viewed with suspicion or disapproval. |
| Interstate highway act | The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (Public Law 84-627), was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. |
| Mutually assured destruction | mutually assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender |
| Iron curtain | the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II |
| Warsaw Pact | formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance and sometimes, informally, WarPac. was a collective defence treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellites |
| Truman doctrine | the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman |
| Arms race | a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War. |
| The 38th parallel | The 38th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the equator.The 38th parallel north formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War. |
| Limited war | a war in which the weapons used, the nations or territory involved, or the objectives pursued are restricted in some way |
| Marshal plan | A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II. |
| Cold war | the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990. |
| Satellite countries | nations that were aligned with, but also under the influence and pressure of, the Soviet Union. |
| ICBM | intercontinental ballistic missile |
| Eisenhower doctrine | Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces |
| Brinksmanship | the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics. |
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