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Ch 28-29
Cold War and the 50s
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History
10th Grade
06/13/2006

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Nuclear Arms Race
Definition
race to build the first atomic bomb
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Sputnic
Definition
first satellite in space by the USSR
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Results of the Korean War
Definition
Divided into two zones at the 38th paralell

South=USA North=USSR
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NATO
Definition
US, Canada, ICeland, nations of W.Europe in military alliance
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Warsaw Pact
Definition
Military Alliance of USSR and other E. European communist countries
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Berlin Airlift
Definition
US and Great Britain flew supplies to W Germany over the Berlin Wall
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How did lifestyles change after WWII?
Definition
baby boom, emphasis on childcare, and fear of Nuclear War happend after what?
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Fads of the Fifties
Definition
TV dinners, I <3 Lucy, Rock N Roll, Elvis are all fads of what decade?
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Douglas MacArthur
Definition
lead troops into S. Korea, wanted to invade China but Truman fires him instead
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Martin Luther King Jr
Definition
leader of the Civil Rights movement, nonvioleng
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Rosa Parks
Definition
refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus
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