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House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Founded May 26, 1938, it is 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. -
26th amendment
Franklin D. Roosevelt lowered the minimum age for the military draft age to 18, at a time when the minimum voting age had historically been 21. “Old enough to fight, old enough to vote” became a common slogan for a youth voting rights movement, and in 1943 Georgia became the first state to lower its voting age in state and local elections from 21 to 18. -
G.I. Bill( servicemen's readjustment act 1944)
An act to provide Federal Government aid for the readjustment in civilian life of returning World War II veterans, June 22, 1944; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress. -
Great society
domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson, it's main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. -
Domino theory
After Eisenhower’s speech, the phrase “domino theory” began to be used as a shorthand expression of the strategic importance of South Vietnam to the United States, as well as the need to contain the spread of communism throughout the world. -
Iron curtain
A political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. -
containment policy
Foreign policy keeping communism, more specifically Russia(USSR) from spreading to other countries. was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. It represented a middle-ground position between détente and rollback. -
Truman Dictrine
President 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. The Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy, away from its usual stance of withdrawal from regional conflicts not directly involving the United States, to one of possible intervention in faraway conflicts. -
Jonas Salk
Took a position at the university of Pittsburg 1947, studying the polio virus and in 1951 he determined there were three types of polio and to "cure" or prevent the virus you would essentially have to vaccinate yourself with a small strain of polio. -
Cold War
state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc(U.S.S.R.) and powers in the Western Bloc(U.S. -
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 Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery, meeting its objective of ‘restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole.’ -
Berlin Airlift
Instead of retreating from West Berlin, the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air, known as the “Berlin Airlift,” lasted for more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin. -
North Atlantic Treaty organization(NATO)
is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949? The organization constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. This guy named Joe McCarthy went around claiming he had a list of known communists and used this to get to the top. There was a list but no evidence of them being communist was ever found. -
Rock N' Roll
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, rhythm and blues, and country music. -
1950s properity
The economy overall grew by 37%, 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. -
Rustbelt vs sunbelt
The Rust Belt is a term for the region from the Great Lakes to the upper Midwest States, referring to economic decline, population loss, and urban decay .The Sun Belt consists of the warm climate states that make up the Southern third of the Continental United States. These states include California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Florida. -
Beatniks
Media stereotypes, in the 1950s and 1960s that displayed more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. -
Korean War
75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
Rosenberg Trail
Begin March 6, 1951, the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. The only direct evidence of the Rosenberg’s involvement was the confession of Greenglass. -
Levittown
Suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons. Built after World War II for returning veterans and their new families.(but only white families because everyone is a dick) -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
During his presidency, Eisenhower managed Cold War-era tensions with the Soviet Union under the looming threat of nuclear weapons, ended the war in Korea in 1953 and authorized a number of covert anti-communist operations by the CIA around the world. -
Ray Kroc
After the Second World War, Kroc found employment as a milk shake mixer salesman for Prince Castle.When Prince Castle Multi-Mixer sales plummeted because of competition from lower-priced Hamilton Beach products, Kroc took note of the McDonald brothers who had purchased six of his Multi-Mixers. Immediately after visiting the San Bernardino store in 1955, Kroc became convinced that the setup of this small chain had the potential to explode across the nation. -
Vietnam War
Started Nov 1, 1955, and ended Apr 30, 1975. The Vietnam war was the 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. -
Interstate highway act
original authorization of $25 billion for the construction of 41,000 miles (66,000 km) of the Interstate Highway System supposedly over a 10-year period, it was the largest public works project in American history through that time -
Sputnik
Launched on October 4, 1957, Sputnik was the first artificial earth satellite launched by the soviet union, It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses -
Space race
Space Race was a competition between the USA and the USSR to explore space using artificial satellites and manned spacecraft. It can be seen as a part of the larger arms race, as developments in space research could easily be transferred to military research. Both countries started work on developing reconnaissance satellites well before the height of the Space Race. -
John F. Kennedy
Elected in 1960 as the 35th president of the United States, 43-year-old John F. Kennedy became the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic to hold that office. but also in the battle to win the ongoing Cold War against communism around the world. Kennedy’s famous closing words expressed the need for cooperation and sacrifice on the part of the American people: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” -
Bay of pigs
The first part of the plan was to destroy Castro’s tiny air force, making it impossible for his military to resist the invaders. On April 15, 1961, a group of Cuban exiles took off from Nicaragua in a squadron of American B-26 bombers, painted to look like stolen Cuban planes, and conducted a strike against Cuban airfields -
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 in Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
"A Great Society" for the American people, Despite Johnson’s success in promoting his domestic reform policies, however, his presidency was equally defined by the failure of his policies toward Vietnam. Believed that America’s national security depended on containing the spread of communism around the world. -
Betty Friedan
As an icon in the women’s rights movement, Betty Friedan did more than writing about confining gender stereotypes—she became a force for change. She co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966, serving as its first president. Friedan also fought for abortion rights by establishing the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws in 1969. -
Golf of Tonkin Resolution
it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia. Specifically, the resolution authorized the President to do whatever necessary in order to assist "any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty". -
Anti-War Movement
Leaders opposed the war on moral and economic grounds. The North Vietnamese, they argued, were fighting a patriotic war to rid themselves of foreign aggressors. -
Tet Offensive 1968
Launched January 30, 1968. One of the biggest military campaigns of the Vietnam war, 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. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. -
Richard Nixon
Served as the 37th president of the United states of America. remembered as the only president ever to resign from office. Nixon stepped down in 1974, halfway through his second term, rather than face impeachment over his efforts to cover up illegal activities by members of his administration in the Watergate scandal. -
Moon landing
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for supremacy in spaceflight capability. ... The race peaked with July 20, 1969, US landing of the first humans on the Moon with Apollo 11. -
Vietnamization
The policy of Richard Nixon administration to end US involvement in the Vietnam war through a program equipping south Vietnam's forces and assign them a combat role. -
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.President has direct power during wartimes.
