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Cold War :)

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NATO   Military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States, and Canada which are against Communism and the warsaw pact.  
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Iron Curtain   A line separating Democracy (Eastern side of Europe) and Communism (Western side of Europe).  
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Sputnik   The first satellite in space launched by the Soviet Union.  
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Baby Boom   a period of sharp increase in the birthrate, as that in the U.S. following World War II.  
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Arms Race   competition between United States and Soviet Union to achieve superiority in quantity and quality of military arms.  
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Truman Doctrine    
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38th Parallel    
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Containment    
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Interstate Highway Act    
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McCarthyism    
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Suburbs    
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CIA   United States spy agency created after WWII  
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Warsaw Pact   an organization formed in Warsaw, Poland (1955), comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the U.S.S.R., for collective defense under a joint military command.  
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