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Levittown
The nation's largest home builder through most of the 1950s.Creating nice affordable homes for white family in a fraction of the time. -
House Un-American Activities Committee(HUAC)
investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives -
GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act 1944)
It provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing. -
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Iron Curtain
It was boundary dividing Europe into two areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. To stop the spread of communism -
Containment Policy
Policy set to use strategies to contain communism. It is a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere.w -
Berlin Airlift
was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies -
Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (nearly $110 billion in 2016 US dollars) in economic assistance -
Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
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Korean War
War between North Korea and South Korea with Russia backing North Korea and USA backing South Korea since USSR and USA did not want direct conflict. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Intergovernmental military alliance between North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
McCarthyism
the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence -
Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
migration of hundreds of thousands of Americans from the Northern and Midwestern -
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1950s Prosperity
The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950s. Inflation was minimal,because of Eisenhower's persistent efforts to balance the federal budget. -
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Beatniks
a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beats -
Rock n Roll
genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from African American musical styles such as gospel, -
Jonas Salk
American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. -
Rosenberg Trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted and executed by the United States government. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American Army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 -
Ray Kroc
American businessman. He joined the California company McDonald's in 1954 and later ended up owning it -
Domino Theory
theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, -
Baby Boom Generation
A massive increase in births following World War II. Baby boomers are those people born worldwide between 1946 and 1964. -
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Vietnam war
fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China and the South Vietnam was supported by the United States and South Korea -
Interstate Highway Act
authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. -
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Space Race
20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight capability. -
Sputnik
the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit -
Bay of Pigs
landing sites for seaborne forces of armed Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, an CIA attempt to overthrow the new government of Fidel Castro in April 1961. -
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba -
Betty Friedan
A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is credited with sparking the American feminism in the 20th century. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, -
Cold War
A state of tension after WW2 between powers in the East and powers in the West. -
Great Society
Domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson.The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Resolution regarding Gulf of Tonkin incident which was confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War -
Tet Offensive 1968
one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War -
Richard Nixon
37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so. -
Moon Landing
A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned missions -
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Anti war Movement
opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict -
Vietnamization
US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. -
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 at least eighteen years old. -
War Powers Act
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.