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The Cold War
Cold War Terms, People, and Events
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cold War | struggle for global power between the U.S. and the Soviet Union |
| containment | preventing the Soviet Unnion from expanding its influence around the world |
| Truman Doctrine | policy of providing aid to help foreign countries fight communism |
| Marshall Plan | Western Europe received more than $13 billion in U.S. loans and grants fro European economic recovery between 1948 and 1952. |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | U.S. joined nine Western European countries, along with Iceland and Canada to form this. |
| GI Bill of Rights | or the Servicemen's Readjustment act that offered veterans money for school as well as loans for houses, farms, and businesses. |
| Fair Deal | included a higher minimum wage, the creation of a national health insurance plan for all Americans, and expanded Social Security benefits for the elderly |
| 38th Parallel | the spot where North and South Korea were divided |
| Soviet Union | controlled the northern part of Korea |
| United States | occupied the southern part of Korea |
| McCarthy | contributed to fears in the early 1950's by charging that Communists were working inside the State Department |
| brinkmanship | a willingness to go to the brink of war to oppose commmunism |
| arms race | both the U.S. and the Soviet Union rushed to build more and more nuclear weapons |
| Sputnik | the world's first artificial satellite |
| Joseph Stalin | Communist leader of Russia during the Cold War |
| Harry Truman | President of the U.S. during the Cold War; he encouraged containment |
| Iron Curtain | the division Winston Churchill described of Stalin's creation of Communist governments in Poland, and of the Soviet Union expanding its control over Eastern Europe by creating "satellite states"(countries under complete Soviet control. |
| baby boom | significant increase in the number of babies born |
| Sun Belt | southern and western states that offered a warm climate year-round and low tax rates |
| urban renewal program | a plan to improve life in the cities |
| beats | criticized society with unusual writing styles and rebellious behavior |
| Mao Zedong | the Communists officially established the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949 |
| Jackie Robinson | baseball player ending segregation in major league baseball |
| hydrogen bomb | weapon far more powerful than the atomic bombs uses in World War II |
| arms race | the U.S. and the Soviet Union rushed to build more weapons than each other |
| Sputnik | the world's first artificial satellite |
| brinkmanship | willingness to go to the brink of war to oppose communism |
| bomb shelter | built by families in case of a nuclear emergency |
| beats | criticized society with unusual writing styles and rebellious behavior |
| suburbs | people moved out of the city to the ___________ for advantages like driveways, large lawns, labor-saving appliances, sports, and activities. |
| Pop culture | Americans watched 6 hours of T.V., listened to Rock 'n' Roll, Jazz, went to Drive in movies, watched "I Love Lucy" |
| Dr. Jonas Salk | Developed a vaccine for the paralyzing disease of polio. |
| Jazz Greats | Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie(fathers of Bebop) |
| Rock 'n' Roll | Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard were _______ 'n' _________ artists |
| Yalta Conference and Potsdam Conference | attended by Franklin Roosevelt(USA), Winston Churchill(Great Britain), and Joseph Stalin(Soviet Union) |
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