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H.U.A.C
The House of Un-American Activities Committee was a committee that stopped the spread of communism in the U.S. The Committee was later over but during its time it kept the U.S in a stable condition. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 where a list of actors, screenwriters and directors that were denied work because of what they believed or suspected to believe. The list was only created due to the suspesion of them being communists. -
Youth Culture
The Nation was being introduced to movies and television and the teens of the 50s were the biggest consumers in that period of time. This change brought America a healthy economy. -
Levittown
Levittown was a dream suburbia for most americans in the 1950's. They lived very close to each other and there houses seem near identical. -
Desegragation of the military
Eisenhower decides that desegragating the military was a good idea. This allows African Americans to be more active in the army and have more responsibility and keep racist tensions aside. -
Mohammad Mossedegh
Prime minister of Iran. Overthrown by the United States Government. -
Strom Thurmond
Govenor of South Carolina, run as a Senate. Supported racial segregation and had the longest filibuster to prevent the Civil Rights Act of 1957. -
Dien Bien Phu
The battle between French and the Vietminh. the purpose was to cut off supplies to there troops. -
Jonas Salk
American medical researcher that founded the polio vaccine. During the time Salk saved a lot of adults and children those years. -
Ralph Abernathy
Abernathy along with MLK helped create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). SCLC was a non violence organization that dealt with African American civil rights. -
Deficit Spending
Deficit spending is the amount by which a government, private company, or individual's spending exceeds income over a particular period of time. This is still going on present time and its getting worse and almost causing a depression. -
SDS
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left. This organization later collapses. -
Eugene Connor
Connor was a Democratic Party politician and police official from the city of Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement. He infamously fought against integration by using fire hoses, police attack dogs, and even a small tank against protest marchers. -
Operation Mongoose
Operation Mongoose was a secret mission to remove communist power in Cuba. The reason is because Cuba was to close to the U.S and Cuba had weapons in the country. -
Kennedy Assassination
Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 by a man name Harry Oswald but was captured. The nation was in shock of what happened and wanted this man dead. -
Warren Commission
Document on the assassination of Kennedy and who it was who shot him. The assassination was a huge deal that couldnt be forgotten by anyone. -
General William Westmoreland
Leader of the U.S Army operations during the peak of the Vietnam War. The hardest thing for Westmoreland was to pull the troops out and that cause lots of anger back at home. -
Stockely Charmichael
He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party. Carmichael helped to increase the number of registered black voters from 70 to 2,600 — 300 more than the number of registered white voters. -
Watts Riots
Large-scale riot which lasted 6 days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in August 1965. By the time the riot subsided, 34 people had been killed, 2,032 injured, and 3,952 arrested. Refered to as the biggest riot between races. -
Thurgood Marshall
The first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Best known for his career as a lawye and fighting for segragation. -
Kerner Commission
Organization created by LBJ to solve the race riots in the 1960s. This kept the whites and blacks from harming each other anymore. -
DNC Convention
LBJ say he will not run for a second term. LBJ was stressed out due to the Vietnam War and he couldnt handle it no more. -
Gloria Steinem
Leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the Women's Liberation Movement in the late 1960s and 1970s. Tried to gived women more rights that they deserved. -
Walter Cronkite
Anchorman on CBS for 19 years. Know as the most trusted man on TV. -
Roe vs. Wade
Court case on the issue of a lady who wants a abortion. This case caused people in the U.S to start getting abortions because of the mistakes they make. -
Vietcong
The army that fought the U.S and south Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Tey used gurilla tactics and stealth that which defeated the S. Vietnam and U.S. -
Guerrila Warfare
Warfare in which small groups ambush and raid large groups of enemies. Vietcog used this against the U.S to keep them guessing. -
Voucher
A voucher is a bond which is worth a certain monetary value and which may be spent only for specific reasons or on specific goods. For example theres food vouchers. -
Sen. William Fulbright
Southern democrat know best for Segragation in the south and his particapation in the Vietnam War. Later he was known as a mentor. -
Domino Theory
The idea of which somthing happpens and a chain of events occur right after. Example is what was happening with communism in the far east it will spread until everyone is under communism, -
Plumbers
White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971 during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Its task was to stop the leaking of classified information to the news media. Its members branched into illegal activities working for the Committee to Re-elect the President, including the Watergate break-ins and the ensuing Watergate scandal. -
Howard Hunt
He worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and later the White House under President Richard Nixon. He was in charge of the first burglery of the Watergate Scandel. -
Revenue Sharing
Sharing of profits and losses among different groups. United States government revenue sharing was in place from 1972-1987. -
Cambodia
Combodia was took over by Vietnam during the war. Later bombed by the U.S to disrupt the vietnamese army and killed over 10,000 people. -
Realpolitik
Realpolitik refers to politics or diplomacy based primarily on practical considerations, rather than ideological notions or moralistic premises. It was also introduced by Henry Kissenger. -
Spiro Agnew
39th Vice President that served under Nixon. He later resigns due to the criminal charges against him. -
Pardon of Nixon
Nixon was pardoned of everything by Jimmy Carter. This showed the U.S citizens that they wouldnt like Carter for what he did. -
Mao Zedong
Mao was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and communist leader. Mao remains a controversial figure to this day, with a contentious and ever-evolving legacy. -
Shah Reza Pahlavi
Emperor of Iran for decades. In the 1950's he was in a couple of assassination attempts. -
Afghanistan Invasion
Ten-year conflict involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan at their own request against the Islamist Mujahideen Resistance. Troops get pulled out in 1988 by Mikhail Gorbachev. -
Perestroika
Restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system. Its the reason for the fall of the Soviet Union. -
Contras
rebel groups opposing Nicaragua's FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional) Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government following the July 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle's dictatorship. financial and military support from the United States government through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), initially supplemented by the Argentine dictatorship of the time. At other times the US Congress wished to distance itself from the Contras and withdrew all overt support. -
Glasnost
Policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union. It showed economic problems and issues the Soviet Unions been hiding from its people. -
Berlin Wall Collapse
This shows an end to the tension between East and West Germany. It was with the help of president Ronald Reagan. -
Operation Desert Storm
To stop Iran after going in and taking over Kuwait. This was a decisive victory for the coalition forces, who liberated Kuwait and advanced into Iraqi territory.
