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Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 -
Ray Kroc
Raymond Albert Kroc joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. -
LBJ
Lyndon Baines Johnson, was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine. -
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy/ JFK, was the 35th President of the United States. Delt with Cuban missle crissis -
Rosenberg Trial
prosecution of a couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. -
Roy Benavidez
Master Sergeant Raul Perez Benavidez was a member of the United States Army Special Forces and retired United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions -
Abbie Hoffman
Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was an American political and social activist and anarchist who co-founded the Youth International Party. -
HUAC
House Un American Activities Comittee was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.it was to help to investigate people who were accused of disloyalty and subverisve activites, or suspected of having communist ties. -
Berlin Airlift
A military action in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin, because they had to cut off their supply routes. -
Rock N Roll
popular dance music originating in the 1950s, characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies. there are many rock n roll bands such as AC/DC/ GUNS N ROSES, PINK FLOYD and many more.. -
Great Society
Johnson outlined the goals of ”the Great Society,” a set of programs designed to help civil rights and those people who are in poverty. -
War Powers Act
was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. -
G.I Bill
goes for anyone in the Department of Veterans Affairs education benefit earned by members of "Active Duty, Selected Reserve and National Guard Armed Forces and their families." it helps them pay for things such as education and training. -
Cold War
Problems between two countries that included threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular. -
Iron Curtain
was the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end in 1991. -
Baby Boom
Is a time when all the men had come back from war and the wife and the husband would want to start a family so when they would get home their first goals was to start a family so they started having a whole bunch of babies. -
Truman Doctrine
that the United States should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist rebellion. -
Containment Policy
by Harry S. Truman administration in 1947, on the principle that communist governments will fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence. -
Marshall Plan
was an American aid Western Europe, where United States gave $13 billion, to help rebuild european economies after all that happened in the world war. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty organization also known as the North Atlantic Alliance. It was used a safeguard for the freedom and security of it's pople through political and military means. -
Beatniks
Was a youth in the 1950s and early 1960s generation who were comonly assosiated with music beats. -
1950s
This is a time where Grease took place and the pink ladies and other famous artists and musicians such as Elvis Presely. -
Korean War
fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist -
McCarthyism
is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence, can also mean the practice of unfair accusations. -
Domino Theory
Since their was a big fear with communism we though that if one country had communist that it would effect that other persons country. so, it is basically when one counry will cause similar events too in other countries. Like falling dominos if one falls they all fall. -
Interstate Highway Act
was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. -
Space Race
The space race was in the 20th century and it was between the Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States of American. -
1960s
The 60s was a time where the vietnam war took place, civil rights protests, the assasination of our president John F. Kennedy. Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Luther King Jr. -
Bay Of Pigs
was a failed invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13 day problem we had with the Soviet Union involving ballistic missile deployment in cuba. -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist which meant that she supported feminism. She wrote a book in 1963. -
Anti- War Movement
is a social movement, that is against a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. -
Miranda V. Arizona
that criminal suspects, before police questioning, have to be informed of their constitutional rights to an attorney. -
Tet Offensive
Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, it was by the forces of viet cong and north vietnamese people's army. -
1970s
Women, African Americans, Native Americans, gays and lesbians and other marginalized people continued their fight for equality. lots of hippies and peace love happiness, sex drugs. -
Vietnamization
was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War by, expanding, equiping and training South Vietnam forces. -
26th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years old or older to vote shall not be denied by the U.S or by any State because of their age. -
Rust Belt and Sun Belt
This is where people from the cities moved to a suburban area and started a family and went to the suburb area for a better life. -
1980s
John Lennon is shot and dies,The popular video arcade game "Pac-Man" is released,Ronald Reagan is elected as the President of the United States., The United States boycotts the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
