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| Mass Media | The means of communication such as television, newspapers, and radio--that reach large audiences. |
| Federal Communications Commission (FCC) | An agency that regulates U.S. communications industries, indluding radio and television stations. |
| Beat movement | A social and artistic movement of the 1950s, stressing unrestrained literary self-expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture. |
| Beatnik | One of the unconventional, nonmaterialistic followers of the beat movement of the 1950s. |
| Rock n' roll | A form of popular music, characterized by heavy rhythms and simple melodies, that developed from rhythm and blues during the 1950s. |
| Urban renewal | The tearing down and replacing of buildings in rundown inner-city neighborhoods. |
| Bracero | A mexican laborer allowed to enter the United States to work for a limited period of time. |
| Termination policy | The U.S. government's plan, announced in 1953, to give up reponsibility for Native American tribes by eliminating federal economic support, discontinuing the reservation system, and redistributing tribal lands. |
| John F. Kennedy | 35th president of the United States, the youngest president ever elected, who's advisors developed the flexible response policy. |
| Flexible response | A policy developed during the Kenedy administration, that involved preparing for a variety of military responses to international crises rather than focusing on the use of nuclear weapons. |
| Fidel Castro | Communist dictator who siezed control of Cuba from fromer dictator Fulgencio Batista. |
| Berlin Wall | A concrete wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, built by the Communist East German government to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the West. |
| Hot line | A communication link established in 1963 to allow the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union to contact each other in times of crisis. |
| Limited Test Ban Treaty | The 1963 treaty in which the United States and the Soviet Union agreed not to conduct nuclear-weapons tests in the atmosphere. |
