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Richard Nixon
Nixon was the 37th President of the United States he became the only U.S. president to resign the office. -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American writerl eading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century -
Roy Benavidez
United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions -
Abbie Hoffman
Hoffman was an American political and social activist and anarchist who co-founded the Youth International Party -
HUAC
HUAC was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens -
Gi Bill
The term GI Bill refers to any Department of Veterans Affairs education benefit earned by members of Active Duty -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain formed the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II -
Baby Boom Generation
Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post–World War II -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War -
Containment Policy
Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 -
Beatniks
a media stereotype that displayed the more superficial aspects -
Domino Theory
The Theory was if one country became communist that the follow country's would follow there for making the domino theory -
Rock N Roll
traditional African-American audience for R&B and gains a wide audience of both white and black teenagers -
space race sputnik and moon landing
On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik (Russian for “traveler”), the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth’s orbit, Later on the president made the bold, public claim that the U.S. would land a man on the moon before the end of the decade. In February 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth -
Anti War Movment
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Korean War
The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with United States as the principal force, came to aid of South Korea -
RosenBerg Trail
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians -
Bay Of Pigs
The Bay of pigs was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA- -
Cuban Missile Crisis
was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba -
John F Kennedy
JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination and Kennedy's time in office is also marked by high tensions with Communist states -
gulf of tonkin resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia -
Miranda v. Arizona
Miranda v. Arizona was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court. -
Tet Offensive
On January 31, 1968, some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States He was also a five-star general in the United States Army and a Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces. -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War -
26th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. -
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was an American businessman and joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food place in the world -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence -
War power act
is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict -
Rust Belt and sun belt
referring to economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once powerful industrial sector -
Interstate Highway act
eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things -
Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson
