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House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
The HUAC was 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. -
G. I. Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act 1944)
The G. I. Bill was passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who served in the armed forces during World War II. -
Baby Boomer generation
The baby boomers were people who were born from 1946 to 1964. -
Containment Policy
It was a policy in the U.S. to prevent the spread of communism. It was in a response of the threats from the Soviet Union. -
Levittown
Levittown In particular it is an example of the mass assembly of homes. An argument can also be made that it is one of the best early examples of suburban planning. For example, in every section there was land set aside for public schools. -
Berlin Airlift
Truman didn't want to start World War III so instead he ordered a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a plan to have the US help Europe get out of economic debt after WWII. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
NATO 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
a term for making ruthless and unfair charges against opponents, such as those leveled by a red-hunting Wisconsin senator in the 1950s. Brown V. Board of Education. Supreme Court ruling that overturned the old Plessy V. Ferguson principle that black public facilities could be "separate but equal". -
Rock n' Roll
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s -
1950's Prosperity
The Decade of Prosperity. The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950s Inflation, which had wreaked havoc on the economy immediately after World War II, was minimal, in part because of Eisenhower's persistent efforts to balance the federal budget. -
Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
the Rust Belt vs Sun Belt was the post-war period, from the 1950s through the 1980s, was characterized by the migration of hundreds of thousands of Americans from the Northern and Midwestern Rust Belt to the Southern Sun Belt. -
Beatniks
A young person of the 1950s to the 1960s. They were seen as rebellious and intellectual. They were known for the use of drugs and to rebel again social standards, and could be seen as the "Beat Generation". -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea. North Korea started it be invading South Korea, and their dispute about where their boundary was. It lasted from June 22nd 1950 to July 27th 1953 -
Jonas Salk
He created one of the first successful polio vaccines. -
Rosenberg Trial
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians (treason could not be charged because the United States was not at war with the Soviet Union). -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was an American Army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was a five-star general in the United States Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. -
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was an American businessman. He joined the California company McDonald's in 1954, just a few months after the McDonald brothers had branched out from their original 1940 operation in San Bernardino, with Kroc turning the chain into a nationwide food chain. -
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 was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. It lasted from 1955 to 1975. -
Interstate Highway Act
It took several years of wrangling, but a new Federal-Aid Highway Act passed in June 1956. The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
Space Race
The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight capability. The US got there first. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion, some call the "perfect failure", of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The cuban missile crisis was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book "The Feminine Mystique" is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century -
John F. Kennedy
John F Kennedy, AKA JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
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. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Great Society
the Great Society was a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs. -
Tet Offensive 1968
In late January, 1968, during the lunar new year holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. ... The Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam. -
Vietnamization
Nixon decided to initiate a new policy known as “Vietnamization”. This policy stated that it would begin to withdraw 25,000 troops from Vietnam and another 60,000 in December of 1969. The main goal of this policy was to encourage the South Vietnamese to take more responsibility of the war. -
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, but the US got a man to the moon first. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States. He served from 1969 to 1974. He is the only president to have resigned. -
Anti-War Movement
The 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. -
War Powers Act
The war powers act was to keep the president in check during war times. Everything is kept between the US, congress and the president. -
Iron Curtain
The iron curtain was the boundary in Europe the divided it, after World War II up until the end of the Cold War. -
Cold War
The cold war was a period of time between the US and the USSR where we mostly fought in words. It lasted from 1947 to 1991. -
26th Amendment
The 26th amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are 18 years old or older. "If you're old enough to fight, you're old enough to vote."
