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House Un-American Activites Committee
Created to investigate alleged disloyalty activities with private citizens, public employees, and other organizations that were suspected pf having communist ties. -
GI Bill
Or the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944 that provided benefits for the veterans returning from WW2 -
Domino Theory
The theory that if one country because a communist countries neighboring countries could also become communist. -
Iron Curtain
The boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of WW2 until the end of the Cold War. Separated the Soviets from the West because of the decline of communism. -
Cold War
A drawn out period with fighting with no guns against the US and the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
Was an American foreign policies which stated the purpose to counter the Soviets expansion. -
Marshall Plan
The American initiative to aid Western European in which we gave them $13 billion to help rebuild there economics. -
NATO
Is known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries. This treaty was signed on this date -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin blockade was one of the first international crisis in the Cold War. -
Containment policy
It was the strategy used to stop the expansion of the enemy. Best now for when the US allied with other countries to stop the spread of communism -
Venona Papers
A list of names deciphered from codenames contained in the Venona project. An effort by the US to decrypt coded messages from the Soviet Union -
1950 Prosperity
The decade of prosperity when the economy grew 37% during this time. Inflation caused havoc on the economy after WW2 -
Beatniks
A young person in the 1950 or 1960's that belonged to a subculture associated with the beat generation -
Rock n' Roll
A popular dance music that began that had a heavy beat and simple melodies. -
Korean WAr
Between North and South Korea they went back and forth across the 38th parallel and South Korea asked for help from the UN while North Korea had Russia and China helping them fight. Neither side ended up wining. -
Rosenberg Trail
The trail of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg for the prosecution of the couple becauase of accusations of selling nuclear weapon secrets to the Soviet Union. -
Jonas Salk
Salk developed the first vaccine for polio in 1953. -
Ray Kroc
Kroc helped McDonald's become a nationwide then eventually global business. This made it the most successful fast food corporation in the world. -
McCarthyism
The practice of making accusations of treason without proper evidence. Senator Joseph McCarthy used this to make sure people were blacklisted or lost there jobs becauase he thought they were communist even through he had no real evidence against them. -
Anti-Movement
A social movement that opposed the the idea of the war in Vietnam. It only really started with the Vietnam war -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This was the year Eisenhower announced he would send US forces to ant middle eastern nation that requested help to defend the Communism movement. -
Space Race
In the 1950's the US and the Soviet Union started to a race into space. In 1959 the Soviet space probe called Lunch 2 hit the moon. -
Interstate Highway Act
This authorized the construction of 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. It produces $26 billion -
John F. Kennedy
He confronted cold war tensions in Cuba and Vietnam. -
Gary Powers
He was an American piolt who flew a Central Intelligence Agency U-2 plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident -
1950's-1980's culture
1950's- uniformity pervaded the American society. Conformity was common and many women had been forced into employment during WW2 traditional roles reaffirmed after the war.
1960's-American Pop culture was big. Very Creative periods. Experimentations with drugs, anger of the war in Vietnam and the assassinations of JFK and MLK.
1970's-Women, Africans, Native Americans, gays, and lesbians were marginalized and many americans join in protests
1980's- Pop culture reflected political conservatism -
Bay of Pigs
This was a failed military invasion of Cuba. They tried to takeover Castro -
Cuban Missile Crisis
When the US and Soviet Union had a 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of the nuclear armed Soviets in Cuba. -
Betty Friedan
An american writer, feminist, and activist. She was a leading women in the women's movement with her book The Feminine Mystique. -
Miranda v. Arizona
Ernesto Miranda was arrested and questioned by police for the connection in a kidnapping and rape case. After two hours at the station the police got a written confession form Ernesto. His confession was put into his trail despite the objection by the defense attorney and then the Supreme Court of Arizona disagreed saying that no constitutional rights were violated. -
Baby Boom
The massive increase in births after WW2. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Two of the South Vietnam political figures were killed causing some instability in Vietnam. Because of the instability Johnson decided to send more military to help. Then in August North Vietnam started bombing US ships causing the US to beginning bombing North Vietnam. -
Great Society
Johnson developed this administration that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs -
Lyndon B. Johnson
After the assassination of Kennedy he took over as the 36th president. He began a program called the The Great Society for congress to help aid education, Medicare, attack on diseases, and developed depressed regions. -
Abbie Hoffman
Hoffman was an american political, social activist and co-founded the youth international Party. He was arrested in this year because of conspiracy and enticing riots and the 1968 Democratic National Convention. -
Vietnamization
Nixon wanted to deflate the anti-war movement so came up with this which was going to withdraw troops, increase aerial and artillery bomb along with giving training opportunities and weapons to control the ground war -
Tet Offenzive
A coordination of North Vietnam to create of series of fierce attacks on South Vietnam -
Roy Benavidez
He was a master sergeant as a member of the US army special forces and received a medal of honor for his service. -
Rust Belt and Sun Belt
The rust belt was the region in the midwest and northeastern US where a bunch of people moved too because of factory decline and unemployment. The sun belt was the Southeast and Southwest region in the US that had a bunch sun. -
War Power Act
A federal law that is intended to check the president's power to commit the US to an armed conflict without the consent of the US congress. -
Richard Nixon
He was the 37th president from 1969 until 1974 and in 1974 he resigned from office. Being the first president to do that. -
Vietnam War
North Vietnam wanted to spread there communism to South Vietnam. South Vietnam did lose the war because they seized control by claiming Saigon in 1975. Which was the South Vietnam capital.
