Cold War Vocab

Dramatic increase in birthrate, especially in years following WW2.

• Baby Boom

• Communism

• Deterrence

• Iron Curtain

people in the 1950s and early 60s who criticized American society as apathetic and nonconformist also known as Beatniks

• Interstate Highway Act

• McCarthyism

• Beat Generation

• Potsdam Conference

Operation that moved supplies into West Berlin by American & British planes during a Soviet blockade

• Satellite nations

• Berlin airlift

• Truman Doctrine

• Space race:

The competition that developed after WW2 between the U.S & Soviet Union for power & influence in the world, lasting until the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991

• Potsdam Conference

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Mutually assured destruction

• Cold War

American foreign policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

• Containment Policy

• Hiang Kai-Shek

• Sputnik

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):

a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, property ownership, and decision making is controlled by the government.

• William J. Levitt (Levittown)

• Joseph Stalin

• Communism

• Elvis Presley

an area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities or personnel

• GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)

• House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

• Demilitarized Zone

• Marshall Plan

discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences

• Deterrence

• Suburbs

• Iron Curtain

• Jonas Salk

Law passed to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher education

• GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act):

• Mutually assured destruction

• Satellite nations

• Communism

1938- Established to investigate disloyalty to nation or government in the U.S.

• Space race

• Warsaw Pact

• House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

• Truman Doctrine