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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| satellite state | state controlled by the Soviet Union |
| Cold War | struggle between communism and capitalism |
| iron curtain | figure of speech. seperated capitalism and communism |
| Truman Doctrine | Trumans promise to aid nations stuggling against communist movements |
| containment | the American attempt to contain communism within its current region |
| Marshall Plan | recovery plan for Europe |
| Berlin airlift | demonstrated to West Berlin, the Soviet Union, and the world how far the United States would go to protect noncommunist parts of Europe and contain communism |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| Warsaw Pact | Soviet Union and its satellite states formed a rival millitary alliance |
| 38th parallel | dividing line on the 38th parallel of latitude between North and South Korea |
| limited war | fought to achive only specific goals |
| SEATO | Southeast Asia Treaty Organization |
| arms race | tug-of-war in weapon capabilties and technologies |
| mutually assured destruction | ownership of fire power that can destroy a nation many times over |
| massive retaliation | the US would respond to communist threats to its allies by threatening to use crushing, overwhelming force, perhaps even nuclear weapons |
| brinkmanship | the placement of a single step from the outbreak of war |
| nationalize | the act of placeing something under government control |
| Suez crisis | used as an exuse to take the Suez canal |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | a statement by Eisenhower that stated that the US would use horce to help any Middle Eastern nation threatened by communism |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| Red Scare | The fear of communism |
| Smith Act | made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government |
| HUAC | House UN-American Activities Committee |
| Hollywood Ten | refused to answer questions asserting their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination |
| blacklist | movie executives circulated a blacklist of entertainment figures who should not be hired because of their suspected communist ties |
| McCarthyism | catchword for extreme, reckless charges |
| demobilization | sending home members of the army |
| GI Bill of Rights | granted veterans a variety of benefits |
| baby boom | veterans of the war came home and started families |
| productivity | the rate at which goods are produced and services performed |
| Taft-Hartley Act | outlawed the closed shop-- a workplace in which only unions had gained during the New Deal |
| Fair Deal | far-ranging legislative program |
| Interstate Highway Act | authorized funds to build 41,000 miles of highway consisting of multilane expressways that would connect the nation's major cities |
| Sunbelt | southern and western states |
| service sector | business that provides service |
| information industry | those who built or operated the first computers |
| franchise business | allows a company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators |
| multinational corporation | companies that produced and sold their goods and services all over the world |
| AFL-CIO | enjoyed a good deal of political clout |
| California Master Plan | called for three tiers of higher education: research universities, state colleges, and community colleges |
| consumerism | buying many things |
| median family income | rose from 3319 to 5417 |
| nuclear family | mother and father and their children |
| rock-and-roll | new type of fast music |
| beatnik | artists who made beats |
| inner city | closer to downtown |
| urban renewal | the government cleared large tracts of older housing and built freeways and developments which would revitalize downtown |
| termination policy | end tribal government and to relocate Native Americansto the nation's cities |
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