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An American politician and Army general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.
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Made Mcdonalds
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An American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States
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Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office
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An American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.
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an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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An American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States
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A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed forces.
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The demographic group born during the post–World War II baby boom
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The state of political hostility between the USA and USSR characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular.
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An American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
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A theory , that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow
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The rust belt is the northern america, where there are factories, and the sun belt is the south where its usually sunny
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created to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.
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The notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
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The name of seven large suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons.
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A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
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The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
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At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.
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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
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an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic support to rebuild war torn Europe
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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.
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A type of dance music originating in the 1950s, characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies.
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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.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states
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The Korean War was caused by communist North Korea wanting to overtake South Korea.
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Julius Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950, a few weeks after the Korean War began. He was executed, along with his wife, Ethel, on June 19, 1953, a few weeks before it ended. The legal charge of which the Rosenbergs were convicted was vague: “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage.”
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A young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation.
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War fought over north Vietnam trying to overtake south Vietnam
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Enacted by President Eisenhower to add highways throughout all of the US
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The race between the USA and USSR to reach the moon. USA won.
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The first satellite in space, put there by the USSR
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A failed invasion of Cuba held by the CIA
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Cuban missile crisis definition. 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.
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A joint resolution that the United States Congress passed in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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A domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.
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one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War
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The first contact with the moon, made by Americans
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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.
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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.
