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Cold War Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Arms race | Contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons |
Baby boom | Increase in births between 1945 and 1964 |
Blacklist | List of persons who were not hired because of suspected communist ties |
Brinkmanship | Belief that only by going to the brink of war could the United States protect itself again communist aggression |
Cold War | Worldwide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union |
Consumerism | Large-scale buying, much of it on credit |
Eisenhower doctorine | Policy of president Eisenhower that stated that the United States would use force to help any nation threatened by communism |
ICBM | A type of missile that can fly from one continent to another |
Interstate highway act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway |
Iron curtain | Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the soviet satellite states Western Europe |
Marshall plan | Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after World War II |
Mutually assured destruct | Policy in which the United States and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another |
NATO | Military alliance formed to counter soviet expansion |
Nuclear family | Ideal or typical household with a father, mother, and children |
Satellite state | Independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation |
Space race | The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop the technology to successfully Land on the moon |
Truman doctorine | President trumans promise to help nations struggling against communist movements |
Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite States |
38th parallel | UN forced communists back to 38th parallel. Cease-fire is signed, with border at 38th parallel |
Limited war | War fought to achieve only specific goals |