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Iron curtian
imaginary line draw between the counties of Eastern Europe and Western Europe.
cold war
war of ideas. war to keep the idealiologis of the Soviet unions ideas and Us ideas separated
containment
keeping communism within its current boundaries
Berlin Airlift
lasted 11 months
Soviets took over Berlin
Truman airlifted supplies there
Mao ZeDong
red army
led the communist revolution in China
the red scare
a time when people were afraid of people who were different that might believe in communism
Joseph McCarthy
led HUAC
Brinkmanship
being willing to go to the brink of war to have things your way
GI Bill
it was a bill that returning soliders from ww2 were able to use to allow them to go to college
baby boom
largest generation in America
babies brain from the year the war ended to 1960
Jonas Salk
created polo vaccine
Sputnik
first artificial satellite sent into space by the Russians
generation gap
kids were different that the parents