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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 the United States and the Soviet Union to develop the technology to successfully land on the moon |
| blacklist | list of person 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 between several North American and European states |
| warsaw pact | military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states |
| 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 Trumans promise to help nation struggling against communist movement |
| arms race | contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons |
| 38th parallel | dividing line between North and South Korea |
| limited war | war fought to achieve only specific goals |
| marshall plan | foreign policy that offered economic aid to the western european countries after world war II |
| cold war | worldwide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union |
| satellite state | independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation |
| ICBM | ballistic missiles |