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1950
american history
Question | Answer |
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22nd amendment | restricts how man times someone can be president |
baby boom | a temporary marked increase in the birth rate, especially the one following World War II |
Roe v. Wade | women have a choice to get and abortion |
containment | the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits. |
Truman doctrine | US saying we will help other effected by the soviet union |
Marshall plan | US sending over $12 billion to Europe to help build their country up after WWII |
NATO | military alliance between 29 North American and European countries |
Authoritarian | favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom |
counterculture | a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm |
exceptionalism | thinking everything is exceptional |
innovation | the action or process of innovating |
prosperity | being wealthy with money, love, and health |
silicon | It is a hard and brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic luster |
suburbia | the suburbs or their inhabitants viewed collectively |