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Levittown
Levittown was a place where the "perfect families" lived in the 50's. They were houses built after WW2 or returning veterans and their families. It also helped with over population in the cities, especially around the time the baby boom would happen. -
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G.I Bill
The G.I Bill was a law that provided benefits to returning from WW2. It gave them low mortgages, covering of expenses and tuitions for veterans in college, and hospital advantages/ hospital expenses. It was a way of thanking the veterans for helping the us out and risking their lives for us. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower was first a solider which turned into being Commander and chief, he was encouraged to run for president and soon became president from 1952 to 1961 as 34th president. He made reducing cold war tensions, peace to south Koreas border during presidency, made the Atoms for Peace program, established Alaska and Hawaii as states, and signing of the civil rights act as well as NASA -
Containment Policy
The containment policy was a policy that "contained" communism. Due to the Domino Theory people thought the spread of communism would spread from country to country. When this was made the containment policy was made to stop communism from spreading and wanted to "contain" it -
Baby Boom
After WW2 when veterans were coming home after a long time in the war the baby boom started. The number of births exceeded 2 per 100 women. There were 78.3 million people born during this time. -
Iron Curtain
The iron curtain was a boundary dividing Europe into two separate place from one end to the other. It divided the Soviet and West to stop communism that followed the events in Europe. It started inWW2 and ended in the cold war -
Domino Theory
The Domino theory was a theory that meant if one country supported communism then everyone else in other countries would support communism. The Cold War foreign policy was made due to communism as well. This led to policies like the Marshall Plan, wars in Vietnam and Korea, and Conntainment -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a rule that established that the U.S would provide military and economic help to all democratic nations. It was this way because it would help the nations under threat and external and internal forces. It ended in 1948 when he pledged to contai soviet threats -
The Cold War
The Cold War was a time of tension after World War 2. It was between the east and west countries. The U.S, Soviet Union, NATO, U.K, France, Canada, East Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium etc. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan was created to protect nations threatened by communism. In a speech by George Marshall called for a plan to help recover from ww1. The marshall plan was signed by president truman -
Berlin Aircraft
Allies of WW2 made there own zones in there countries. It was divided into four sections. The russians closed highways railroads,canals etc, from western germany into western berlin. This they thought would make it impossible for the people who lived there to get supplies and food and would have to drive to britain, france and the us out of the city -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The NATO was created to provide collective security against the soviet union. It was the first peacetime alliance the us entered. Many nations signed this organization treaty -
Rock n' Roll
Rock n roll was a new and amazing time for people in the 50s. People were so drawn to being perfect and doing good and when rock n roll hit it created "the bad boy" in movies and songs. People loved this era and changed music forever. It was concidered the "devils music" but people loved the rush from it -
1950's prosperity
The economy had grown 37% during this time. This had wrecked the economy after WW2 because of Eisenhowers efforts to balance the federal budget. It was like this because all the veterans were getting back from war so the population rose -
Beatniks
Beatniks were basically hippies of the 50s. They expressed there beliefs on things and were very artistic and open about things. They were the "cool kids" of the 50s but were very weird and different from others -
McCarthyism
McCarthy was known to make accusations of things and not have proof or have any sort of evidence proving these events. Joe McCarthy accused people of being spies for other countries but didnt have any proof of any of the people being accused. He made many people blame others for these actions without proof and many people were convicted of these things without even doing them. -
Korean War
It was the first action filled conflict In the cold war. It showed that America was willing to fight for communism not to spread as well as send troops to contain communism -
Rosenburg Trail
Rosenburg was arrested in 1950 as well as his wife for passing secrets to the soviets. He never agreed with this and denied it to his death. As well as his wife -
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was a business man who made mcdonalds into one of the most successful fast food operation in the world. He was in acquaintance to the founder of mcdonalds and made it better than it was before created. He first started as a milkshake maker and ended up being one of the great founders of mcdonalds -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was the first person to develop one of the first polio vaccines. He was a very good medical researcher. He also came up with other ways to prevent this and was a help to the people with polio -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam war was a war against the communist of North Vietnam and its allies. More than 3 million people and 58,000 americans were killed during this time of conflict. Its main allie was the U.S because of our anti-communist place -
Interstate Highway Act
The interstate highway act was the creation of highways and has changed the world and impacted everyone. It was created to help life for everyone and was one of the greatest act in history that has helped everyone. President d eisenhower singed this bill into the law -
Sputnik
This was the worlds first satellite that was launched in 1957. The soviet union launched this before the us did and they assumed there technology was more advanced since they accomplished this but did not know yet the us would be launched into space years later. This changed life for everyone and was a portable way to listen to things all around and was secretly a way to listen to hidden secrets from all around -
Space Race
The space race was a point in time where the us competed with the Soviet Union to see who could get to the moon first. It was important for the us to "win"this race because it showed other countries which country had the most advanced technology and advanced science. The us won -
John F Kennedy
He served as the 35th president of the us. He was one of the most loved presidents in the us because of his companionship as a president and wanted peace upon everyone. He was one of the greatest presidents. He was the youngest man elected to be president and stopped an almost WW3 incident -
Bay of pigs
The bay of pigs was a failed military invasion of cuba. It was undertaken by a paramilitary group. Fidel castro was in power to an armed revolt that over threw Fulgencio Batista -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The CMC was a 13 day attack between the us and hen soviet union concerning the soviet unions missiles on cuba. Cuba was as well going to fire a missile on the us and president john f kennedy stooped it from happening. These events almost caused WW3 as well as almost 1 word from an air pilot stopped the us from firing as cuba and the soviet union -
Anti-War Movement
The anti-war movement was a time were people were against the negative upon all the countries. It was a time were people wanted freedom and wanted peace. There was so much racism and conflict during this era the people finally spoke up and wanted peace with all again -
Lyndon B. Johnson
He was the 36th president of the us and a politician. He created the "great society" and signed the civil rights act. He opposed his vast expansion of america in the Vietnam War. -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was wrote her own book about her feminist storys and what it was like. She helped advance the womens rights movement. She was considered the mother of feminism -
The Great Society
The great society was a set of programs in the us made by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It was made for the elimination of poverty and racism. He declared war upon this -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin resolution was a resolution that congress passed in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was when the vietnamese detected three north vietnamese torpedo boats approaching at high speed. President Johnson took measures he thought was okay to promote peace and security in southeast asia. -
Tet Offensive
The tet offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. It was when the vietnamese and communist viet cong coordinated an attack launched in south vietnam. They attacked more than 100 cities and towns -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the one that created Vietnamization. He served at the 37th president. He was the only president to resign from office -
Moon Landing
It was the first arrival of a man and a moon. The us and the soviet union competed to get here but of course the us won. It was oneof the most amazing things that has ever happened in history. We were much more advanced in science and technology then any other country (that we know of) to have been able to accomplish this. -
Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
The Rust Belt and the Sun Belt are defined as regions of the U.S. The rust belt reffers to economic decline, population loss, and urban decay. While the sun belt had economic and political impact. -
Vietnamization
This was a policy by Richard Nixon. It was a policy that was created to end us involvement to "expand, equip, and train south vietnam forces. It wanted to assign them to an ever-increasing combat role -
26th Amendment
The 26th amendment was the right of citizens of 18 or older to vote. Anybody of 18 or older wouldnt be denied at any point the right to vote. It was passed mostly because many people argued that if they were old enough to be considered an adult and old enough to fight and die for their country , they considered that they were old enough to fight for the country they live in and die for -
War Powers Act
The war powers act is a law intended to check the presidents power. It was to commit the us to an armed conflict without congress
