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House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Its first chairman, Martin Dies, set the pattern for its anti-Communist investigations. -
War Powers Act
An American emergency law that increased Federal Power during WW2. Signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Another War Powers Act passed in 1973 that restricted the government's power on military force. -
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GI BIll
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McCarthyism
Refers to unfair accusations of being a communist or of having communist sympathies, but was also a tactic used for political gain. McCarthy became famous by naming alleged communists. -
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Baby Boom Generation
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1950’s Prosperity
The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950s. At the end of the decade, the median American family had 30% more purchasing power than at the beginning. Inflation, which had wreaked havoc on the economy immediately after World War II, was minimal, in part because of Eisenhower's persistent efforts to balance the federal budget. Except for a mild recession in 1954 and a more serious one in 1958, unemployment remained low, bottoming at less than 4.5% in the middle of the decade. -
Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman -
Containment
A strategy by the United States to prevent the spread of communism. It was the response to the Soviet Union's actions to enlarge the influence of communism in Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. Plan to keep Communism in its own present borders. Formulated by George F. Kennen. -
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Cold War
Was a state of tension between the eastern and western powers more specifically united states and russia or Communism and Anticommunism -
Levittown
created by William Levitt also known as the king of suburbia -
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Berlin Airlift
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. For nearly a year, supplies from American planes sustained the over 2 million people in West Berlin. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
An organization designed for countries to help one another in times of need sending aid, supplies, and support for allied countries in NATO and countries asking for support of NATO -
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Beatniks
A term used for a group of people that were the pre-hippies of the society mainly writers, artists, and members of the pre-hippie counterculture. -
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Korean War
The North Koreans, backed by the Soviet Union, cross the 38th parallel to invade South Korea with U.S on the South Koreans side. The invasion was the first military action of the Cold War, the U.S. saw it as a way of fighting against communism. In July, 1953 the war came to an end with the Korean Peninsula still divided. -
Rosenberg Trial
Julius Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950, a few weeks after the Korean War began. He was executed, along with his wife, Ethel, on June 19, 1953, a few weeks before it ended. The legal charge of which the Rosenbergs were convicted was vague: “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage.” -
Jonas Salk
Dr. Jonas Salk successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio. Dr. Salk was celebrated as the great doctor benefactor of his time. -
Ray Kroc
Raymond Albert Kroc was an American businessman. He joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world -
Domino Theory
The fear in the U.S. government, that the Soviet Union was trying to extend its reach into all countries of Southeast Asia. It was known as the Domino Theory because the outcome resembled a toppling row of dominoes. If one country fell to communist rule, the theory suggested that another nearby country would be more likely to fall. -
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Vietnam War
This conflict between communist and capitalist countries was part of the Cold War. The Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front, or NLF), was a South Vietnamese communist force helped by the North. It fought a guerrilla war against the anti-communist forces in the South. -
Rock n Roll
Rock n’ Roll came to be used to describe a new form of music, steeped in blues, rhythm and blues, country, and gospel. Teenagers fell in love with this new form of music but parents were not very fond of it. -
Interstate Highway Act
Signed by president Dwight Eisenhower. Was incase an atomic attack on the key cities, the road net would permit quick evacuation of target areas. Was essential to national interest. -
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Space Race
The competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the first manmade satellite launched by the USSR. This was a major blow to the American Scientific and technological community. Also brought more worries, if the Soviets had a rocket that could launch a satellite into earth orbit, then they would surely have one capable of launching a nuclear warhead around the world -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was the 34th President of the U.S.
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Moon Landing
A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission. -
Sun Belt
The southern US from California to Florida, noted for resort areas and for the movement of businesses and population into these states from the colder northern states -
John F. Kennedy
An American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
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Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961 -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Caribbean Crisis or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Envisioned “the great society” our 36th president taking JFK place after his assassination escalating the vietnam war, not running for a second term of presidency, Also known for signing the civil rights act in 1964 -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Great Society
Created by Lyndon B Johnson for his agenda to the congress on january of 1965 giving aid to education, medcare, attack on disease, a wide scale fight against poverty etc. -
Betty Friedan
With her book The Feminine Mystique, Friedan broke new ground by exploring the idea of women finding personal fulfillment outside of their traditional roles -
Anti-War Movement
This began during the vietnam war where citizens protested against the vietnam war because of its harmful acts to the innocent lives in vietnam as well as the harmful and deceitful acts from our government -
Tet Offensive 1968
was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and their allies. -
Richard Nixon
An American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office -
Vietnamization
President Richard M. Nixon pledged to withdraw 150,000 more U.S. troops from South Vietnam in the next 12 months. -
26th Amendment
The 26th amendment granted the right to vote to American citizens aged eighteen or older. -
Rust Belt
The region of the United States from the Great Lakes to the upper Midwest States, referring to economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once-powerful industrial sector, also known as deindustrialization. -
Iron Curtain
A barrier separating russia between them and european countries prior to the decline of communism
