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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 | Competition between United States and Soviet Union to develop the technology to successfully land on the moon |
Blacklist | List of persons who were not hired because of suspected communist |
Interstate highway act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway |
Mutually assured destruct | Policy In which the US 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 the US protect itself against communist aggression |
Iron curtain | Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between India 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 stated that the US would use force to help any nation threatened by communism |
Truman doctrine | President Trumans promise to help nations struggling against communist movements |
Arms race | Contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons |
38th parallel | 38th degrees north of the earths equator plane formed border between south and North Korea |
Limited war | War fought to achieve only specific goals |
Marshall plan | Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after WW 2 |
Cold War | Worldwide rivalry between the U.S and Soviet Union |
Satellite state | Independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation |
ICBM | Guided missile with a minimum range of 5,500 kilometers |