Military Industrial Complex – Flashcards
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Military Industrial Complex
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An informal alliance between a nation's military and the defense industry which supplies it. The goal is to gain political support for the increased military spending by the national government. President Eisenhower first used this term in his Farewell Address in 1961
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Arms Race
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A competition for supremacy in weapons and technology between the US and the USSR during the Cold War.
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Nuclear Proliferation
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The building up of Nuclear Weapons
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Manhattan Project
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The code name for the American project set up in 1942 to develop an atom bomb
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Mutually Assured Destruction
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An understanding between the US and the USSR that each side had enough weaponry to destroy the other side. This understanding discouraged full out nuclear warfare.
