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G.I. Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act 1944)
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Domino Theory
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Iron Curtain
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Baby Boom Generation
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Cold War
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Levittown
Certainly for the inhabitants of Levittown, more disturbing complaints came from their Long Island neighbors. Wealthy Gold Coast residents were concerned with property values and a decline in prestige with the arrival of the urban working class in their “boxy little” houses. An editorial in a local news-paper, the Island Trees Tribune, noted this as early as Decemb -
Marshall Plan
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Berlin Airlift
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Truman Doctrine
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Containment Policy
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House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
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McCarthyism
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1950's Prosperity
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Rosenberg Trial
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Rock n' Roll
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Jonas Salk
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Interstate Highway Act
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Sputnik
A Russian missile launched Sputnik into space and it then became the first man made object in space as well as the world's first artificial satellite. Sputnik's launch was an unpleasant surprise to Americans. The next year the U.S. launched Explorer I, which was designed by the U.S. Army. -
Beatniks
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Vietnam War
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John F. Kennedy
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Bay of Pigs
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Space Race
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Betty Friedan
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Great Society
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Tet Offensive 1968
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Anti-War Movement
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Richard Nixon
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Moon Landing
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Vietnamization
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26th Amendment
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War Powers Act
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Ray Kroc
