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House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
An investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives -
Containment policy
A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
Rock n’ Roll
Genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States. -
G.I. Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act 1944)
Provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing -
Iron Curtain
The name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas -
Baby Boom generation
Used to identify a massive increase in births following World War II -
Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Berlin Airlift
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
A American initiative to aid Western Europe -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
An intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries -
Korean War
On June 1950 the Korean war began and the North pushed the South further down. On July the US had entered the war against North Korea. Together the US and South Korea pushed the North towards China. The war finally ended in July 1953. -
McCarthyism
The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
Domino Theory
The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries. -
1950s prosperity
The economy overall grew by 37% -
Beatniks
A media stereotype prevalent -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th U.S. President, also was a five-star general in the United States Army. -
Jonas Salk
He developed the first successful polio vaccines. -
Ray Kroc
American Businessman, Turned mcdonalds into a nationwide fast food chain. -
Interstate Highway Act
The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. -
Space race
competition between the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight capability -
Bay of pigs
A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President, Assassination in November 1963. -
Betty Friedan
A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
International confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War -
Great Society
A domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs. -
Tet Offensive 1968
Largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War -
Vietnamization
The US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam -
War Powers Act
A federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
Richard Nixon
Remembered as the only president ever to resign from office. -
Vietnam War
A conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia