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Cold War Terms
Term | Definition |
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iron curtain | term from winston church in 1946 to describe an imaginary line dividing countries in the Soviet bloc from countries in western europe |
containment | policy that the US adopted in the late 1940s to stop spread of communism |
cold war | an era of high tension and bitter rivalry between the US and the soviet union following the end of ww2 |
Truman Doctrine | US containment policy -president truman said that the US would support free nations to protect them from communism |
Marshall Plan | US gave over 12 million dollars in aid to help rebuild European democracies after WW2 to protect against communism |
Baby boom | rise in birth rate after ww2 |
ICBMs | intercontinental ballistic missiles guided missiles that could travel thousands of miles and strike targets accurately |
Eisenhower doctrine | declared the right of the US to help in request any nation in the middle east trying to resist communist regression |
hydrogen bomb | a nuclear weapon that gets its power from the fusing together of hydrogen bombs |
26th amendment | lowered the legal voting age from 21 to 18 |
war powers act 1973 | law that sets a 60 day limit on the presidential commitment of US troops to foreign conflicts |
ho chi minh trail | a network of paths from north vietnam to south vietnam used to supply the vietcong |
vietcong | military forces of national liberation front -wanted to overthrow gov in vietnam |
great society | social welfare programs started by presiden lyndon b johnson such as medicaid/medicare |
detente | relaxing of tension |