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| George C. Marshall | US Secretary of State in 1947 who argued that Europe’s economic recovery was necessary for world peace |
| Marshall Plan | US program of giving aid to European countries to help them rebuild their countries after W.W.II and prevent the spread of communism |
| United Nations | International organization chartered in 1945 to resolve conflicts between nations |
| Cold War | Global power struggle or state of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1945 to 1991 without actual fighting that divided the world |
| Containment | US foreign policy followed during the Cold War that sought to prevent the expansion of Soviet communism |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | Military alliance formed in 1949 by the United States and 11 other countries to help defend each other in case of an attack |
| Warsaw Pact | a military alliance created in 1955 by the Soviet Union and the Eastern European nations that it controlled |
| Baby Boom | a significant increase in the number of children being born after W.W.II and changed American demographics |
| G.I. Bill of Rights | Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, which offered veteran’s education benefits and loans for houses, farms, and businesses |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | Military crisis that almost led to nuclear war when US naval ships blockaded Cuba until the Soviet Union agreed to remove its missiles from the island |
| glasnost | Soviet policy established in the 1980s that promoted political openness and freedom of expression which led to the breakup of the Soviet Union |
| Paris Peace Accords | Cease-fire agreement made by leaders of the National Liberation Front, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the US to end the Vietnam War with US troops withdrawing |
| Domino Theory | Cold War belief that if one nation in Southeast Asia fell to communism, the rest of Southeast Asia would also fall which led to US involvement in the Vietnam War |
| 38th parallel | line of latitude that separates North Korea and South Korea |
| Highway Act | an act that provided money to create a national interstate highway system |
| Berlin Wall | Wall built in 1961 between East and West Berlin to stop East Berliners from crossing into the West. It was destroyed in 1989. |
| doves | Americans who called for US withdrawal from the Vietnam War |
| hawks | Americans who pushed for increased military spending and involvement in the Vietnam War |
