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Baby boom   A period marked by a significant increase of birth rate  
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Consumerism   the protection or promotion of the interests of consumers.  
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Nuclear family   a couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit.  
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Space race   the competition between ( US and USSR) nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration.  
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Blacklist   a list of people viewed with suspicion or disapproval.  
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Interstate highway act   The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (Public Law 84-627), was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.  
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Mutually assured destruction   mutually assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender  
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Iron curtain   the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism  
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NATO   North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II  
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Warsaw Pact   formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance and sometimes, informally, WarPac. was a collective defence treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellites  
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Truman doctrine   the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman  
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Arms race   a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.  
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The 38th parallel   The 38th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the equator.The 38th parallel north formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War.  
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Limited war   a war in which the weapons used, the nations or territory involved, or the objectives pursued are restricted in some way  
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Marshal plan   A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II.  
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Cold war   the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.  
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Satellite countries   nations that were aligned with, but also under the influence and pressure of, the Soviet Union.  
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ICBM   intercontinental ballistic missile  
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Eisenhower doctrine   Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces  
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Brinksmanship   the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics.  
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