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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American politician and Army general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. -
Ray Kroc
He joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 -
Richard Nixon
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. -
Jonas Salk
an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. -
John F. Kennedy
American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, she wrote a book called the 1963 book The Feminine Mystique -
House Un-American Activities Committee
created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Its first chairman, Martin Dies, set the pattern for its anti-Communist investigations -
G.I. Bill
provides educational assistance to servicemembers, veterans, and their dependents. -
Baby Boom generation
baby boomers are the demographic group born during the post–World War II -
Iron Curtain
Was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. A term symbolizing the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas -
Containment Policy
used numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
Marshall Plan
was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of the war -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
Truman Doctrine
an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
McCarthyism
is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence -
Rock n' Roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from musical styles such as gospel, jazz, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues, and country music. -
1950s Prosperity
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Levittown
a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead in Long Island, in Nassau County, New York -
Beatniks
a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation -
Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union gave some assistance -
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.” -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. -
Interstate Highway Act
It was created to eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way of speedy, safe transcontinental travel. -
Space Race
The Space Race was considered important because it showed the world which country had the best science, technology, and economic system. After World War II both the United States and the Soviet Union realized how important rocket research would be to the military. -
Sputnik
was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
Great Society
The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A joint resolution that the U.S Congress passed, in response to the Gulf of tonkin incident -
Anti-war movement
a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause -
Tet Offensive 1968
On January 31, 1968, some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
Vietmanization
Vietnamization of the war was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War -
26th Amendement
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. -
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 -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern and powers in the Western -
Domino Theory
a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect -
Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
