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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. -
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Ray Kroc
an American businessman. He joined the California company McDonald's in 1954, one of he's quotes were "If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours." -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. one of his quotes were "Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerrilla war against society". -
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Richard Nixon
an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, -
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John F. Kennedy
commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 -
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
The House Un-American Activities Committee was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives -
G.I bill servicemen's readjustment act 1944
provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing. -
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 -
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trumann doctrine
an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
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 -
Marshall Plan
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. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (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 -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border -
Baby Boom Generation
Baby Boomers are the demographic cohort following the Silent Generation -
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. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. -
Interstate Highway Act
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. -
sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses -
Moon Landing
A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959 -
bag of pigs
An inlet of the Gulf of Cazones located on the southern coast of Cuba. By 1910, it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then instead to Las Villas Province by 1961. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. -
great society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice -
Tet Offensive 1968
The Tet Offensive, or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 by North Vietnam and NFL, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization of the war 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 Vietnamese forces and assign -
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.
