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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Was an American politician and General who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. Eisenhower's main goals in office were to keep pressure on the Soviet Union. After the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite in 1957, Eisenhower authorized the establishment of NASA, which led to the space race. -
Ray Kroc
an American businessman and philanthropist.[4][5][6] He joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson designed the "Great Society" legislation upholding civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, aid to education, the arts, urban and rural development, public services, and his "War on Poverty". Johnson escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted Johnson the power to use military force in Southeast Asia without having to ask. -
Richard Nixon
Was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. Nixon ended American involvement in the war in Vietnam in 1973 and brought the American POWs home. At the same time, he ended military draft. -
Roy Benavidez
Was a member of the United States Army Special Forces. In 1965 he was sent to South Vietnam as an advisor to an Army of the Republic of Vietnam infantry regiment.On February 24, 1981, President Ronald Reagan presented Roy P. Benavidez with the Medal of Honor. -
Jonas Salk
He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine. Until 1955, when the Salk vaccine was introduced, polio was considered one of the most frightening public health problems in the world. In the postwar United States, annual epidemics were increasingly devastating. -
John F. Kennedy
Served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, developments in the Space Race, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Trade Expansion Act to lower tariffs, the Civil Rights Movement, the "New Frontier" domestic program, and abolition of the federal death penalty in the District of Columbia all took place during his pre -
Betty Friedan
Was an American writer, activist, and feminist. In 1966, Friedan co-founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), which aimed to bring women "into the mainstream of American society now [in] fully equal partnership with men." -
Abbie Hoffman
Was an American political and social activist and anarchist[1][2][3] who co-founded the Youth International Party. Hoffman continued his activism into the 1970s, and remains an icon of the anti-war movement. -
HUAC
Created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. -
War Powers Act
Was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and put into law on December 18, 1941, less than two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. -
G.I Bill
Refers to any Department of Veterans Affairs education benefit earned by members of Active Duty, Selected Reserve and National Guard Armed Forces and their families. The benefit is designed to help servicemembers and eligible veterans cover the costs associated with getting an education or training. -
Iron Curtain
Imaginary 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. The term symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non-Soviet-controlled areas. -
Containment Policy
Containment policy was not a way to stop Communism, but to prevent it. The US believed in the "Domino Theory", which practically said communism is contagious and it should be contained. We aided european countries so that they would be persuaded not to be a Communist country. -
Baby Boom Generation
Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. Many men were coming back and scared of another war so people started to have families just incase. -
Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
Cold War
A state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact). The term "cold" is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides -
McCarthyism
Practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. This was because a McCarthy had a list of people who accused of being Communist, but had no proof they actually were. This was during the Red Scare , so McCarthy used that to become known. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was an effort made by the US to transport goods to the people in Berlin, because Soviet's put up a blockade nt allowing the US to aid Germany. -
Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
NATO
Also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Beatniks
Media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. Elements of the beatnik trope included pseudo-intellectualism, drug use, and a cartoonish depiction of real-life -
Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II. The Soviet Union beat the US to this, with the October 4, 1957 orbiting of Sputnik 1, and later beat the US to the first human in space. -
Domino Theory
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. -
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Prosperity
Many people were moving to the Sun belt Region of the US and people were converting from undustrial urban to more of a suburb community. There was a war going on and made jobs oppurtunities for people. -
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50's, 60's, 70's, 80's Culture
The 50's was a big time for car; thats when everything started to evlolve around them. Drive thru's, Drive-in Movies, and sports , like NASCAR. 60's were a big movement for civil rights and human rights. 70's was big for culture because a lot of people started to not trust the government anymore and so were the 80's -
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. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards. This was to stop Communism. -
Great Society
A set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. Anti-war Democrats complained that spending on the Vietnam War choked off the Great Society. -
Anti-War Movement
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. -
Vietnam War
was a Cold War-era proxy war[40] that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War (1946–54) and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States, Philippines and other anti-communist allies. The Fall of Saigon wa the capture of the capital that ended the war. -
Interstate Highway Act
Was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. With an original authorization of US$100,000 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 -
Rosenberg Trial
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. It was a prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians, but not treason because we were not at war with Russia. -
Bay Of Pigs
Failed military invasion of Cuba by the US to stop Communism. US President Dwight D. Eisenhower was concerned at the direction Castro's government was taking, and in March 1960, Eisenhower allocated $13.1 million to the CIA to plan Castro's overthrow. The CIA proceeded to organize the operation with the aid of various Cuban counter-revolutionary forces. The failed invasion strengthened the position of Castro's leadership as well as his ties with the USSR, which led the the Cuban Missile Crisis. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. In response to the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961; Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to agree to Cuba's request to place nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter future harassment of Cuba. Resulted in Withdrawal of Soviet Union's nuclear missiles from Cuba and withdrawal of American nuclear missiles from Turkey and Italy. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. During the spring of 1964, military planners had developed a detailed design for major attacks on the North, but at that time President Lyndon B. Johnson and his advisers feared that the public would not support an expansion of the war. -
Miranda Vs. Arizona
Was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court. Defendant in police custody will be admissible at trial only if the prosecution can show that the defendant was informed of the right to consult with an attorney before and during questioning. This had a significant impact on law enforcement in the United States, by making what became known as the Miranda rights part of routine police procedure to ensure that suspects were informed of their rights. -
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 People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. -
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. -
Rust Belt and Sun Belt
Term for the region straddling the upper Northeastern United States, the Great Lakes, and the Midwest States, referring to economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once powerful industrial sector. 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. -
Rock N Roll
YEAAAHHHHHHH!!! Rock N Roll was about living free, doing drugs, and having fun. Many people got into Rock N Roll to get away from reality and some were already addicted to Drugs from the war, so Rock N Roll were big during the Vietnam War because that was a hard war for the US. -
26th Amendment
It changed a portion of the 14th Amendment. Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. This was an action taken because of the Anti War Movement and people realizing if they are old enough to enlist; they are old enough to vote.
