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1969 BCE
Moon Landing
When the man landed on the moon. -
HUAC
The House Committee on Un-American Activities was an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American propaganda. -
Rock n' Roll
This is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940's -
G.I. Bill
Loans for vets to go to school, start a business, adjust to civilian life. -
Baby Boom Generation
Other vets come home, have a house, want to start a family -
Iron Curtain
An impenetrable barrier to communicate or inform, especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy. -
Containment Policy
In the military it means the act of containing something or someone. -
Cold War
An era of high tension and bitter rivalry known between the United States and the Soviet Union following the end of World War ll -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology. -
Marshall Plan
U.S. plan of giving money to European countries to help them rebuild after WWll. -
Berlin Airlift
Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. -
NATO
An international organization created in 1949 by the North atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security. -
McCarthyism
Unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty -
1950's Prosperity
The economy overall grew by 37%. Inflation had wrecked havoc on the economy immediately after WWll, was minimal, in part because of Eisenhower's persistent efforts to balance the federal budget. -
Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
The migration of hundreds or thousands of Americans from the Northern and Midwestern Rust Belt to the Southern Sun Belt. -
Levittown
A large suburban housing development created in the United States by William Levitt and his company Levitt and Sons. Built after WWll for returning veterans and their new families, the community offered attractive alternatives to cramped centra city locations and apartments. -
Beatniks
A young person in the 1950's and early 1960's belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation. -
Ray Kroc
New manager for franchising of McDonald's, took over eventually and turned it into international food chain -
Korean War
The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (that the US helped) helped South Korea -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supported the French against the communists in Vietnam by giving them money. -
Rosenberg Trial
The husband broke codes between Moscow and office for diplomats. The wife was accused for knowing these secrets and also involvement in this. The media used propaganda to make sure that the people's views were one way or another. They were proven guilty and executed. -
Domino Theory
The political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control. -
Jonas Salk
Developed the first successful polio vaccine. -
Vietnam War
Also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War against America or simply the American War. More than 3 million people were killed in the war and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. -
Anti-War Movement
A social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to star or carry on an armed conflict.Also can be the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts. -
Interstate Highway Act
A network of high speed roads built to make interstate travel faster and easier. -
Space Race
A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union. -
Sputnik
The first artificial satellite; launched by the soviets at 7:28 pm. -
Betty Friedan
Wrote about suburban housewives, investigated sense of woman's purpose, and gave name to the idealization of women's domestic roles. -
John F. Kennedy
President during part of the cold war and especially during the superpower rivalry and the cuban missile crisis. He was the president who went on tv and told the public about the crisis and allowed the leader of the Soviet Union to withdraw their missiles. -
Bay of Pigs
An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. An armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahia de Cochinos on the South Coast of Cuba -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Signed the civil rights act of 1964 into law and the voting rights act of 1965. He had a war on poverty in his agenda. In an attempt to win, he set a few goals including the great society, the economic opportunity act, and other programs that provided food stamps and welfare to nearby families. He also created a department of housing and urban development. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on in response of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Great Society
War on poverty and civil rights act; a large percentage of population is in poverty. -
Tet Offensive 1968
National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment. -
Richard NIxon
Elected president in 1969; given problems of peace with honor; believes most americans do not want to pull out of the Vietnam War would be humiliating to lose -
Vietnamization
U.S. policy in Vietnam under President Nixon. U.S. trained South Vietnamese troops to take over the fighting while the U.S. troops slowly withdraw. -
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 18 years old. -
War Powers Act
Notified congress to deploy troops after 90 days, congresses approval needed.
