US History Unit 8 Cold War

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brinkmanship

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A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression.

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communism

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A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

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containment

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

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democracy

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A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.

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deterrence

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An effort to preserve the status quo through the threat of force.

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ideology

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A consistent set of beliefs by groups/individuals.

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consumer society

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Many Americans in the 1950s became infatuated with all of the new products produced by technology and went out and purchased more than any prior generation; consumer tastes of the decade were largely dictated by advertising and television.

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military industrial complex

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Eisenhower first coined this phrase when he warned Americans against it in his last State of the Union Address, fearing that the combined lobbying efforts of the armed services and industries that contracted with the military would lead to excessive congressional spending.

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generation gap

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The cultural separation between children and their parents.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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International crisis sparked by the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba during JFK's presidency in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the U.S. and the USSR.