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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. Dwight D.Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He also served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. -
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was an American businessman and philanthropist. He joined McDonald's in 1954. He built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 to 1974. He became the only U.S. president to resign the office. -
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States. He was in office from January 1961 until he was assassinted in November 1963. -
Betty Friedan
Betty was a leading figure in the women's movement in the United States. Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of american feminism. -
House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Un-American Activities Committee was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens. Also for public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after WW2 between The U.S. and the Soviet Union. This was around 1947–91. This was caused by the Russians feeling mistreated by the U.S. when they didn't tell them about the atomic bombs. -
War Powers Act
The War Powers Act of 1941, was an American emergency law that increased federal power during World War II. It was intended to check the presidents power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
G.I. Bill
The maximum tuition and fee amounts for the Montgomery GI Bill. Active Duty, Montgomery GI Bill - Selected Reserve, REAP, and Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance Program are now available on the Rate Tables Page. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a boundary dividing Europe into two areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term was efforted by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non-Soviet-controlled areas. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. It was announced by President Harry S. Truman. He pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe. The United States gave over $12 billion in current dollar value to help support. This was to help rebuild the Western European economies after the world war. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of WW2, U.S, British, and Soviet military forces occupied Germany. The Berlin Airlift lasted more than a year. It carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin. -
Containment Policy
This was a United Stated Policy that prevented the spread of communism. This was created by the series of moves by the Soviet Union. The Containment Policy was created by George F. Kennan. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
This was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into the outside of the Western Hemisphere. The former required a massive influx of aid to help the war. In 1947, a series of events caused the nations of Western Europe to feel concerned about their physical and political security. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the act of making assumptions without any valid evidence. It referred to Joseph McCarthy's charges of communism.
Others thought it was unfair that they were accused of something when they didn't have hard evidence of it. -
Beatniks
Beatnik were a media stereotype throughout the 1950's to mid 1960's. They displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement. A Beatnik is a young person that is apart of a social group. -
Domino Theory
The domino theory was a thought during the 1950's that if one country falls into communism, the rest will fall with them. The american failure to prevent a communist victory in Vietnam had much less of a global impact than had been assumed by the domino theory. The Cold War's containment was born of the Domino Theory. -
Korean War
The Korean War was when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations and the United States came to aid South Korea. China and Russia supported North Korea. -
Rosenberg Trial
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg began in New York. This trial went all the way to the Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman was in charge over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. -
Rock n' Roll
A popular music that was born and grew in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.Together with Western swing and country music. It is a combination of African-American genres such as blues, boogie-woogie, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music. -
Jonas Salk
An American medical researcher and virologist. He developed the first vaccine for polio. Jonas established the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in 1963. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, which was also the second Indochina War. It was known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War. This was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam. -
Interstate Highway Act
Also known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act. -
Levittown
Levittown is the name of a seven large suburban developments created in the United States. This was created by William Levitt and his company ''Levitt & Sons''. It all started in a town named, Levittown, Pennsylvania. -
Sputnik
Soviet Union satellite was the world's first satellite in space. This led an event for the space race against the U.S and the USSR. The Soviet Union launched a satellite to spy on the U.S during the Cold War. -
Bay of Pigs
The United States tried to over throw the Cuban Leader to stop communism. They failed the invasion of Cuba. It is known in latin as Invasión de Playa Girón. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. This was when the U.S was concerned by the Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. The U.S was afraid because the missiles had a range from Cube all the way to the top of the United States. -
Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States. It was launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was to eliminate poverty and racial injustice. -
Baby Boom Generation
Baby boomers are people born during WW2. Baby boom approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. This was when men came back from the war and celebrated. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. It gave a broad congressional approval extension of the Vietnam War. It was also known as the Southeast Asia Resolution. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President from 1963 to 1969. He also served as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy. Johnson was a Texan that served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the the U.S. Senate. -
Tet Offensive 1968
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. It was created on January 30, 1968. This was made by the forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army of Vietnam against the forces. -
Anti-War Movement
Anti-war marches and other protests, like the ones organized by Students for a Democratic Society, attracted a widening base of support over the next three years. It was peaking in the early 1968's after the successful Tet Offensive by North Vietnamese troops proved that war's end was nowhere in sight. -
Moon Landing
The Moon Landing was also known as, One Giant Leap For Mankind. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins from Apollo 11 laded on the moon. Armstrong said that landing his biggest concern. -
Vietnamization
The policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Search and Destroy missions were a crucial part of the American war strategy in Vietnam. It was aimed to end the American involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
The Rust Belt area is a region that has areas in the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. This is also referring to the economic decline, population loss, and urban decay. -
Space Race
The Space Race was a competition between the two Cold War rivals. This involved the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States, for supremacy in spaceflight capability. The Soviet union won the space race. -
26th Amendment
The 26th amendment allowed congress to levee any income tax. It also states that any citizen of the U.S, who are 18 years or older, shall not be denied by the United States on account of age. -
1950's Prosperity
Historians use the word boom to describe a lot of things about the 1950s. For example, the booming economy, the booming suburbs and most of all the so-called “baby boom.” This was because when men came back from the war, a lot of women were pregnant.
