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house un-american activities committee
he House Un-American Activities Committee was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. -
G.I. Bill
Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944, this act, also known as the GI Bill, provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing. -
Iron curtain
The term Iron Curtain had been in occasional and varied use as a metaphor since the 19th century.
In one of the most famous orations of the Cold War period, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe and declared, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” -
baby boom generation
Baby boomers are the demographic group born during the post–World War II baby boom, approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. -
truman doctrine
With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
levitown
Levittown is significant from a multitude of perspectives. In particular it is an example of the mass assembly of homes. An argument can also be made that it is one of the best early examples of suburban planning. For example, in every section property was set aside for public schools. -
cold war
It saw the formation of NATO on one side and the Warsaw Pact on the other side. It was a clash between communism and capitalism. I would say the significance of the cold war was that the United States emerged as the sole superpower in the world and ideology wise, capitalism trumped communism. -
marshall plan
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. The plan is named for Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who announced it in a commencement speech at Harvard University on June 5, 1947. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
Berlin airlift
one of the first major international crisis of the cold war. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
1950's prosperity
The United States was the world’s strongest military power. Its economy was booming, and the fruits of this prosperity–new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods–were available to more people than ever before. However, the 1950s were also an era of great conflict. For example, the nascent civil rights movement and the crusade against communism at home and abroad exposed the underlying divisions in American society. -
domino theory
that if one nation fell to communism all those around it would soon fall to it as well, therefore, causing a domino effect. -
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. It is from African American musical styles such as gospel, jazz, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues, and country music. Rocket 88" is a rhythm and blues song that was first recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 3 or 5, 1951. The recording was credited to Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats, who were actually Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm. -
beatniks
Beatnik was a media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. -
Korean War
N. Korea invaded S. Korea = US & United nations helped S. Korea China & soviet union helped N. Korea/ -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
american politician decorated in military general
*34th president -
Jonas Salk
medical researcher & virologist
*discovered one of the 1st successful polio vaccines. -
Rosenberg trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II. Because the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons did not operate an electric chair at the time, the Rosenbergs were transferred to the New York State-run Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining for execution. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in the electric chair at sundown in 1953. -
Ray Kroc
American businessmen
* made McDonalds most successful fast food restaurant -
Vietnam war
"second indochina war" resistance war against america or simply the american war
*occured in Vietnam, Laos, and cambodia -
containment policy
the using of numerous strategies to keep communism from spreading.
*brought about during the cold war -
interstate highway act
The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. -
space race
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959. The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969. -
McCarthyism
making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard of evidence. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
bay pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure. Fidel Castro had been a concern to U.S. policymakers since he seized power in Cuba with a revolution in January 1959. -
John F. Kennedy
Politician
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Betty Friedan
American writer, activist, feminist
*book the feminine mystique -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Politician
*35th president -
Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice -
gold of Tonikn resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
On August 2, North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked an American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin. Johnson responded by sending in another destroyer. On August 4, the two destroyers reported that they were under attack. This time, Johnson authorized retaliatory air attacks against North Vietnam. -
anti-war movement
It is 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. The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts. -
tet offensive
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. -
Moon landing
Neil Armstrong – the first person to walk on the moon. Also with his colleagues Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the first person to land a craft on the moon. In 1969, Armstrong was asked about the lunar landings. He replied that it was part of man's expression for self-discovery. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module was the first crewed vehicle to land on the Moon. It carried two astronauts, Commander Neil A. Armstrong and LM pilot Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., the first men to walk on the Moon. -
vietnamization
Nixon decided to initiate a new policy known as “vietnamization”. This policy stated that it would begin to withdraw 25,000 troops from Vietnam and another 60,000 in December of 1969. The main goal of this policy was to encourage the South Vietnamese to take more responsibility of the war. -
26th amendment
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.
Section 2;
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
War Powers Act
federal law intended to check to president's power to commit the US to an armed conflicts without the consent of US congress. -
rust belt vs sun belt
The Sun Belt comprises the southern tier of the United States, including the states of Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas, roughly two-thirds of California, and parts of Arkansas, North Carolina, Nevada, and Oklahoma. The Rust Belt is a term for the region straddling the upper North-Eastern United States, the Great Lakes, and the Midwest States, referring to economic decline, population loss, -
Richard Nixon
Politician
*37th president
