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Joey Hughes, 3B
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Baby Boom | |
| Consumerism | |
| Nuclear Family | |
| Space Race | |
| Blacklist | |
| Interstate Highway | |
| Mutually Assured Destruct | |
| Brinkmanship | |
| Iron Curtain | |
| NATO | |
| Warsaw Pact | |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | |
| Truman Doctrine | |
| Arms Race | |
| 38th Parallel | |
| Limited War | |
| Marshall Plan | |
| Cold War | |
| Satellite State | |
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. -A guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi). -Primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads). |
| A temporary marked increase in the birth rate, especially the one following World War II. | |
| The protection or promotion of the interests of consumers. | |
| A couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit. | |
| The competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration. | |
| A list of people or products viewed with suspicion or disapproval. | |
| The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways is a network of controlled-access highways that forms a part of the National Highway System of the United States. | |
| 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. | |
| The art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics. | |
| The name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. | |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after WW2. It's to strengthen international ties between member states and to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. | |
| A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. | |
| Announced in January 1957, a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. Eisenhower singled out the Soviet threat with special circumstances. | |
| The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman. | |
| 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. | |
| A circle of latitude that formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War. | |
| A war in which the weapons used, the nation's or territory involved, or the objectives pursued are restricted in some way, in particular one in which the use of nuclear weapons is avoided. | |
| (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the US gave over $12 billion(approximately $120 billion in current dollar) in economic support to help rebuild Western Europe economics after WW2. | |
| The state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945-1990. | |
| A political term that referres to a country or nation that was formally independent, but is now politically and economically influenced by another country. |
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