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vocab A&C
History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| NATO | It is an alliance of countries from Europe and North America. |
| Cold war | It was an ongoing political rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after WWII. |
| The Baby Boom | a marked rise in birth rate |
| The united Nations | Its is an international organization founded in 1945. |
| Berlin wall | A wall that separated West Berlin, Germany, from East Germany, which surrounded it until 1989. |
| Korean conflict | it was a conflict between the democratic people's republic of korea and the republic of korea in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. |
| civil rights act of 1964 | it was prohibits discrimniation on the basis of race color religion sex or national origin |
| communism | its a type of government as well as an economic system. |
| containment | the act,process,or means of keeping something within limits. |
| Domino Theory | it is the idea that if one thing falls, a lot more things will fall,too,like a line of dominoes. |