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| leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953 | Joseph Stalin |
| people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom approximately between the years 1946 and 1964, | Baby Boomers |
| domestic agenda of the Truman Administration, from 1945 to 1953 | Fair Deal |
| A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. | GI Bill of Rights |
| is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the U.S. Government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence | CIA |
| the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism | Iron Curtain |
| the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence | Containment |
| A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin, had cut off its supply routes. | Berlin Airlift |
| an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 | NATO |
| was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War | Marshall Plan |
| an immensely powerful bomb whose destructive power comes from the rapid release of energy during the nuclear fusion of isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium), using an atom bomb as a trigger. | Hydrogen Bomb |
| the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics. | Brinkmanship |
| a former country in E Asia, on a peninsula SE ofManchuria and between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea: | Korea |
| a communist nation in East Asia, is the world’s most populous country | China |
| A Soviet political leader of the twentieth century.Khrushchev, who was premier of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s, program of de-Stalinization, and urged peaceful coexistence between his country and Western nations | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Soviet artificial satellite, launched on October 4, 1957, was the first satellite to be placed in orbit. | Sputnik |
| United States government agency responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. | NASA |
| the first US artificial satellite, discovered the Van Allen radiation belt. | Explorer 1 |
