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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. -
gi bill
provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed forces. -
iron curtain
The 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. the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. -
baby boom generation
used to identify a massive increase in births following World War II. Baby boomers are those people born worldwide between 1946 and 1964, the time frame most commonly used to define them. The first baby boomers reached the standard retirement age of 65 in 2011. -
Containment Policy
Containment is a geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. It is best known as a Cold War foreign policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism. Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
Domino Theory
the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall. the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall. -
cold war
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc, the Soviet Union and its satellite states, and powers in the Western Bloc, the United States and its NATO allies and others -
Berlin Airlift
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin, had cut off its supply routes. -
truman doctrine
an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman in 1947 and further developed when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. -
marshall plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. -
rock n roll
rock n roll is a type of popular dance music originating in the 1950s, characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies. Rock and roll was an amalgam of black rhythm and blues and white country music, usually based on a twelve-bar structure and an instrumentation of guitar, bass, and drums. -
1950s prosperity
economy overall grew by 37%. unemployment inflations remained low. the great depression. bigger families, cvs and suburban home all marked the prosperity. -
McCarthyism
Senator Joe McCarthy and chief counsel Roy Cohn interrogating suspected communists. At a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, on February 9, 1950, McCarthy proclaimed that he was aware of 205 card-carrying members of the Communist Party who worked for the United States Department of State. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on June 25 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. .began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid. -
rosenberg trail
A court case involving Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union. Some have argued that the Rosenbergs were innocent victims of McCarthy -era hysteria against communists or of anti-Semitism, they were Jewish. -
ray kroc
After World War II, Kroc found employment as a milkshake mixer salesman for the foodservice equipment manufacturer Prince Castle. During World War I, he lied about his age and became a Red Cross ambulance driver at 15. was an American businessman. He joined the California company McDonald's in 1954 -
levittown
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. the first truly mass-produced suburb and is widely regarded as the archetype for postwar suburbs throughout the country. -
vietnam war
The Vietnam War was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954. -
dwight d eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.As supreme commander of Allied forces in Western Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-Day -
rust belt vs sun belt
The post-war period, from the 1950s through the 1980s, was characterized by the migration of hundreds of thousands of Americans from the Northern and Midwestern Rust Belt to the Southern Sun Belt. -
jonas salk
It was the first type of polio vaccine to become available. It was made by cultivating three strains of the virus separately in monkey tissue. he was the one who came up with the vaccine. -
interstate highway act
was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. It also allocated $26 billion to pay for them. -
sputnik
each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which launched on October 4, 1957 was the first satellite to be placed in orbit. -
space race
The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight capability.it became a competition between the two countries. -
beatniks
coined by Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 1958, a portmanteau on the name of the recent Russian satellite Sputnik and Beat Generation. This suggested that beatniks were far out of the mainstream of society and possibly pro-Communist -
bay of pigs
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
cuban missile crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the hottest periods of the cold war. -
john f kennedy
John F Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. For fourteen days during October 1962, the world held its breath as John F Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev tried to reach a compromise and avoid nuclear war. Ernest May investigates how Kennedy demonstrated his leadership skills during the crisis. -
betty friedan
Ever since the 1963 publication of her landmark book, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan has insisted that her commitment to women's rights grew out of her experiences as an alienated suburban housewife. -
lyndon b johnson
He is remembered for his "Great Society" social service programs, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and expanding U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.elected vice president of the U.S. in 1960 and became the 36th president in 1963, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He is remembered for his "Great Society" social service programs, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and expanding U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. -
gulf of tonkin resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia 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. -
vietnamization
the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. -
great society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. Anti-war Democrats complained that spending on the Vietnam War choked off the Great Society. -
anti war movement
An anti-war movement is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a existing just cause. The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts. -
tet offensive
A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War. Early in 1968, Vietnamese communist troops seized and briefly held some major cities at the time of the lunar new year, or Tet. -
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 -
26th amendment
Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote. During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt lowered the minimum age for the military draft age to 18, at a time when the minimum voting age as determined by the individual states had historically been 21. -
War Powers Act
The War Powers Resolution, also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act, is 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
he ran for the presidency again and was elected, defeating incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Nixon ended American involvement in the war in Vietnam in 1973 and brought the American POWs home, and ended the military draft. Vietnam war.
