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| 3956249828 | gross national product (GNP) | the total value of a nation's annual output of goods and services | 0 | |
| 3956259303 | agribusiness | farming and related activities considered as commercial enterprises, especially large corporate agricultural ventures | 1 | |
| 3956276513 | population curve | the varying size and age structure of a given nation or other groups, measured over time | 2 | |
| 3956286811 | precinct | the smallest subdivision of a city, as it is organized for purposes of police administration, politics, voting, and so on | 3 | |
| 3956302122 | protégé | someone under the patronage, protection, or tutelage of another person or group | 4 | |
| 3956309080 | superpower | one of the two overwhelmingly dominant international powers since WWII--- the United States and the Soviet Union | 5 | |
| 3956320348 | exchange rates | the ratios at which the currencies of two or more countries are traded, which express their values relative to one another | 6 | |
| 3956342937 | underdeveloped | economically and industrially deficient | 7 | |
| 3956350334 | military occupation | the holding and control of a territory and its citizenry by the conquering forces of another nation | 8 | |
| 3956359210 | containment | in international affairs, the blocking of another nation's expansion through the application of military and political pressure short of war | 9 | |
| 3956368411 | communist-frontier | one who belongs to an ostensibly independent political, economic, or social organization that is secretly controlled by the Communist party | 10 | |
| 3956589595 | politburo | the small ruling group that controlled the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and hence dictates the political policies of the Soviet Union | 11 | |
| 3956597037 | GI Bill | allowed all servicemen to have a free college education once they returned from the war | 12 | |
| 3956615778 | Taft-Hartley Act | outlawed "closed" (all union) shop, made unions liable for damages that resulted from jurisdictional disputes among themselves and required union leaders to take a non-communist oath | 13 | |
| 3956624353 | Operation Dixie | aimed at unionizing southern textile and steel workers but failed miserably to overcome lingering fears of racial mixing | 14 | |
| 3956630287 | Employment Act of 1946 | government policy to promote max employment, production, and purchasing power | 15 | |
| 3956639362 | Council of Economic Advisers | to provide the president with the data and the recommendations to make that policy a reality | 16 | |
| 3956643139 | Veterans' Administration | guaranteed about $16 billion in loans for veterans to buy homes, farms, and small businesses | 17 | |
| 3956650267 | Sunbelt | 15 state crescent from Virginia through Florida and Texas to Arizona and California | 18 | |
| 3956656021 | baby boom | the huge leap in the birthrate in the 15 years after 1945 *50 million babies were born by the end of the 1950s *Baby boomers placed huge strains on the Social Security System *Kids growing up caused strains on respective markets such as manufacturers of baby products (1940s-1950s), teenage clothing (the 1960s), and the job market (1970s-1980s) | 19 | |
| 3956677576 | white flight | white people leaving the cities full of the poor and African-Americans | 20 | |
| 3956685066 | Federal Housing Administration | offered insured mortgages with low down payments and 2-3% interest rates on 30-year loans | 21 | |
| 3956688622 | Levittown | utilized mass production techniques to build inexpensive homes in Suburban NY to relieve postwar housing shortages | 22 | |
| 3956699136 | International Monetary Fund | encourages world trade by regulating the currency exchange rates | 23 | |
| 3956734018 | International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) | promotes economic growth in war-ravaged and underdeveloped areas | 24 | |
| 3956757447 | United Nations | opened on April 25, 1945; preserved peace in Iran, Kashmir, and other trouble spots; created Isreal (Jewish State); guided former colonies to independence | 25 | |
| 3956782060 | Nuremburg Trials | the Allies prosecuted 22 culprits of the Holocaust from 1945-1946; accused of crimes against the laws and humanity and plotting aggressions contrary to solemn treaty pledges; 7 (long jail terms) and 12 (hung) | 26 | |
| 3956811605 | Iron Curtain | symbolized the ideological (communism vs. democracy) and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas in post-WWII/Cold War Era; from the Baltic to the Adriatic; the term for the barrier that Stalin erected to block off Soviet-dominated nations of Eastern Europe from the West | 27 | |
| 3956822639 | Foxy Hermann Goering | cheated the hangman a few hours before his scheduled execution by swallowing a hidden cyanide capsule | 28 | |
| 3956832195 | satellite state | a country that is formally independent in the world but under heavy political, economic, and military influence or control from another country | 29 | |
| 3956843100 | National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 of 1950 | declared that the United States should quadruple its defense spending; reflected the sense of the almost limitless possibility that pervaded American society; militarized American foreign policy and indicated national faith in the economy's capacity to sustain large military expenditures | 30 | |
| 3956852910 | 38th parallel | the dividing line between North and South Korea, across which the fighting between communists and United Nations forces ebbed and flowed during the Korean War | 31 | |
| 3956859315 | domino theory | if the United States declined to fight in Vietnam, other countries would lose their faith (or their fear of American power) and would tumble one after the other like dominoes into the Soviet camp | 32 | |
| 3957499565 | productivity | the rate of worker output per hour, which grew in the United States from 1950-1970 | 33 | |
| 3957518354 | Cold War | the extended post-WWII confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that stopped just short of a shooting war | 34 | |
| 3957541447 | Marshall Plan | the US gave money to certain countries; done to prevent communism from rising in countries like France and Italy; in order to receive aid you had to have a democratic government | 35 | |
| 3957562022 | Chinese nationalists | Jiang Jieshi's (Chiang Kai-shek) pro-American forces, which lost the Chinese civil war to Mao Zedong's (Mao Tse-tung) communists in 1949 | 36 | |
| 3957606705 | Truman Doctrine | gave financial aid to Greece and Turkey ($400 million) | 37 | |
| 3957638809 | Berlin Airlift | Year-long mission of flying food and supplies to blockaded West Berliners, whom the Soviet Union cut off from access to the West in the first major crisis of the Cold War; established American determination to resist further Soviet advance | 38 | |
| 3957718303 | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | Military alliance of Western European powers (UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg) and the United States and Canada established in 1949 to defend against the common threat from the Soviet Union, marking a giant stride forward for European unity and American internationalism; Greece and Turkey join in 1952 and West Germany joins in 1955 | 39 | |
| 3957748571 | Loyalty Review Board | investigated more than 3 million federal employees | 40 |
