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Cold War Era
Social Studies vocabulary for Chapter 12
Term | Definition |
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affluence | having wealth |
airlift | delivery of supplies by airplane |
arms race | competition between countries for stronger military power |
censure | to formally critize |
closed shop | the practice businesses hiring only union workers |
Cold War | a war in which two enemies do not fight in combat but compete and conflict in other ways |
containment | a policy of holding back or stopping communism |
demilitarized zone | region where military forces are not allowed |
desegregate | to end the system of separating races |
espionage | spying |
Fair Deal | a program aimed at solving some of the nation's economic problems after WWII |
inflation | increase in prices |
iron curtain | a symbolic division between East and West in Europe during the Cold War |
materialism | focus on collecting money and possessions |
perjury | the crime of lying under oath |
subversion | attempts to overthrow or undermine a government by secretly working within that government |
summit | meeting of heads of governments |
surplus | amount left over |
standard of living | a measure of the necessities and comforts enjoyed by an individual or group |
Truman Doctrine | a promise from President Truman that the US would help any free nation resisting Communist aggression |