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G.I. Bill
This bill granted soldiers returnign from the vietnam war to have benifits and that the government would cover all cost for education for them and their children. -
Iron Curtains
It was a boundry dividing europe from russia -
Containment Policy
is a military strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. It is best known as the Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism abroad -
Truman Doctrine
was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. It was first[1] announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. No American military force was involved; instead Congress appropriated a free gift of financial aid to support the economies and the militaries of Greece and Turkey. More generally, the Truman doctrine implied Am -
Cold War
The cold war was after the WW2 and it was tension bettween The western block and the other side of the world. -
Marshall Plan
The United States gave 13 billion dollars to Europe for the eastern europe to rebuild their economy after WW1 -
Berlin airlift
the 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' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche mark from West Berlin. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
It was a organization that was created and signed on April 4, 1949. This treaty was built for the countrys to aviod wars in the world;. -
Beatniks
was a media stereotype going on through the 1950-1960. It included the following, pseudo-intellectualism, drug use, and a cartoonish depiction of real-life people -
Domino Theory
It was the theory that if the small countires would become communist that little by little the rest of the world would also become communist and the US did not want this -
McCarthyism
is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism."[1] The term has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1950 to 1956 and characterized by heightened political repression against communists, as well as a campaign spreading fear -
Korean War
was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was the 34Th president of the United States. He served 2 terms in office. Before being president he served in WW1 as a five star general for the United States army. -
Rosenberg Trail
were American citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage and for passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviets.[1] -
Ray Kroc
He was a business man and joined Mcdonald's and made it the most successful fast food operation in the world. He also owned the San Diego Padres baseball team. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas was a famous scientist that is high recongnized for developiing a vaccine for polio in the 1950's. -
Space Race
Was a race between the soviet and the U.S. It started with the soviets launging satilites into space, in response the U.S put the first man on the moon -
John F. Kennedy
He was the 35th president of the United states and was assaainated during a vist to Dallas Texas. -
Bay of Pigs
Playa Girón and Playa Larga were the landing sites for seaborne forces of armed Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, an American CIA-sponsored attempt to overthrow the new government of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro in April 1961. -
Cuban missle criss
was a 13 day thing where the soviet was moving in missles into cuba and those missles could hit anywhere in the united states and mainly the white house and military basses. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
He was the 36th President of the united states and was successer for kennedy when he was assassinated. -
Betty friedan
She was a american witer, activist, and femalist. She was a main leader in the womens rights. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This gave LBJ the right to declare war without the concent of the senate or the congress approval. -
Miranda v. Arizona
was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court. In a 5-4 majority, the Court held that both inculpatory and exculpatory statements made in response to interrogation by a defendant in police custody will be admissible at trial only if the prosecution can show that the defendant was informed of the right to consult with an attorney before and during questioning and of the right against self-incrimination before police questioning, and that the defendant not only understood these rights -
tet offensive
was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian commands and control centers throughout South Vietnam.[10] The name of the offensive comes from the Tết holiday, the Vietnamese New Year, when the first -
Vietnamization
Was a policy of nixon to end the war and remove the US soldiers from vietnam -
Roy Benavidez
He was part of the special army forces in the U.S army. He has great victories in South vietnam -
Abbie Hoffman
Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. -
Richard Nixon
He was the 37th president of the United States of America. He was the only one to resign to office. -
26th Amendment
to the United States Constitution 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.
