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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. -
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was an American businessman he joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
LBJ 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, from 1961 to 1963. -
Richard Nixon
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
JFK was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November -
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Rosenberg Trials
A court case involving Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union. -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. -
Roy Benavidez
Roy 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
Abbie Hoffman was an American political and social activist and anarchist who co-founded the Youth International Party. -
HUAC
HUAC was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens -
War Powers Act
The War Powers Act of 1941, also known as the First War Powers Act, was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. -
G.I. Bill
The benefit is designed to help servicemembers and eligible veterans cover the costs associated with getting an education or training. -
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Containment policy
Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
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Baby Boom Generation
Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. -
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc -
Marshall Plan
It was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion Dollars. -
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Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Rock n Roll
a type of popular dance music originating in the 1950s -
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Mccarthyism
a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations. -
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Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
Domino Theory
The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
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. -
Interstate Highway
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act. -
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Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. -
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Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
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Cuban Missle Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. -
Great Society
On Jan. 4, 1965, in his State of the Union address, President Lyndon B. Johnson outlined the goals of the Great Society. -
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 maybe-existing just cause. The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts. -
Gulf of Tokin
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, involved what were originally claimed to be two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. -
Miranda v. Arizona
the Supreme Court ruled that detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops. -
Amendment
The 26th Amendment changed a portion of the 14th Amendment. Section 1. -
Iron Curtain
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.
