Vocab.
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| Baby boom | Increase in births between 1945 and 1964
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| Consumerism | Large-scale buying, much of it on credit
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| Nuclear family | Ideal or typical household with a father, mother, and children
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| Space race | The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop the technology to successfully land on the moon
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| Blacklist | List of persons who were not hired because of suspected communist ties
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| Interstate Highway Act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway
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| Mutually assured destruction | Policy in which the United States and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another
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| Brinkmanship | Belief that only by going to the brink of war could the United States protect itself against communist aggression
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| Iron Curtain | Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite States and Western Europe
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| NATO | Military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion
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| Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite States
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| Eisenhower Doctrine | Policy of president Eisenhower that stated that the United States would use force to help any nation threatened by communism
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| Truman Doctrine | President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements
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| Arms Race | Contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons
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| 38th Parallel | Is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north
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| Limited war | War fought to achieve only specific goals
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| Marshall plan | Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western Europe countries after World War II
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| Cold War | Worldwide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union
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| Satellite state | Independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation
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