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Lyndon B. Johnson
He was the 36th president after JFK was assinated (1917-1963) and was in charge of the war. He launched an ambitious slate of progressive reforms aimed at alleviating poverty and creating what he called a “Great Society” for all Americans. -
War Powers Act
This act was an American emergancy that would increase the power for federal during WW2. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the act. -
Venona Papers
The paper has list of names ostensibly deciphered from codenames contained in the Venona project. -
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
This was to investgate disloyal orignazation. -
G.I. Bill
Povided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing. -
Iron Curtain
It was an imagnary boundery that sepreated Europe when WW2 ended until the Cold war ended. The sovient union did not want anyone to come to there area. -
Baby Boom Generation
After WW2 the man would go back home and create a family to by a family house. This gereration 3.9 million were born in 1952. -
Cold War
It was a war between the US and The Sovient Union which started after WW2 -
Containment Policy
This policy was a stragiegi was to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
Truman Doctrine
He created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War, which lead on July 12, 1948 to develop Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
Berlin Airlift
It was an airplane tha supplied food, fuel, and other nessacerasy for 10 months. -
Marshall Plan
To help rebuild Eroupe to stop the spread of communisum. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
This organization was know for the US military alliance which was meant to fight the sovient union during thw cold war. -
Space Race
The russians sents Sputnik to space, and american started to get commpeted with technology, which led to america sending the first man on the moon. -
Domino Theory
Held that a communist victory in one nation would quickly lead to a chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighboring states. -
"McCarthyism"
Unfair of asscusation of being communist. -
Beatniks
It was very different for the people which became known as media stereotype. -
Rock n' Roll
This kind of music became very popular which teens o any color could listen and have fun with it. A good artist that can represent id Elvis P. -
1950s Culture
Technology was invented, popular music was rock n' roll and so many things the government did during that time. -
1950s Prosperity
Its economy was booming, and the fruits of this prosperity–new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods–were available to more people than ever before. Also people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions. -
Korean War
This war was between North and the South Korea but the US was helping the South Korea. -
Rosenberg Trial
It was a trial for a couple being accued for selling nuclear secrets to the Russian. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Was the presidenct during 1953-1961 which he mange the cold war and ended the war for Korea during 1953. In 1954 he faltered in the protection of civil rights for African Americans by failing to fully enforce the Supreme Court’s mandate for the desegregation of schools in Brown v. Board of Education. -
Joans Salk
The vaccine was released for use in the United States for Polio. -
Interstate Highway Act
This date will be remeber because Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. -
1960s Culture
The style became very different, like longer hair, handbands, clothes simple, etc. I would call this generation "hippie." -
Gary Powers
He is known for causing U-2 incident that was shot down while flying during the sovient airspace. -
John F. Kennedy
Became presdent of the united states from 1961-1963 (35th president). Kennedy confronted mounting Cold War tensions in Cuba, Vietnam and elsewhere. He also led a renewed drive for public service and eventually provided federal support for the growing civil rights movement. -
Ray Kroc
Kroc purchased the restaurant company in 1961, implementing automation and strict preparation standards that helped make McDonald’s the world’s largest restaurant franchise before his death in 1984, at the age of 81. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This even only occured for 14 days yet it was a big thing. This was between th US and the sovient union, over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. -
Betty Friedan
She wrote a book a book called The Feminine Mystique which was very popular and helped advance the women’s rights movement as one of the founders of the National Organization for Women. -
Anti-Movement
It waqs a protest against the war by college students, They were praticing their freedom of speech. The most popular one was Kent State Campus. -
Great Society
This was a new system, which was from Lyndon B. Johnson but the goal was to get rid of poverty and racial injustice. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
It helped expand the Vietnam war, which this sytem helped a plan to attack the north. -
Miranda v. Arizona
It was 5-4 majority, and Miranda did not know he could have a lawyer to help him out in court but in this case it talks about the 5th prohibited Amendment prohibition against self-incrimination applied to an individual in police custody or ‘deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way. -
Abbie Hoffman
Was an American political and social activist and anarchist who co-founded the Youth International Party. -
Tet Offensive 1968
North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated and attack South Vietnam. The Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam. -
Roy Benavidez
He was a member of the Army Special Forces who received the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions in combat near Lộc Ninh, South Vietnam. Who received the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions in combat near Lộc Ninh, South Vietnam. -
Richard Nixon
We will always remember him as the only president ever to resign from office. -
Vietnamization
This was a new stratgey to end American invovlment in the Vietnam war. -
1970s Culture
increasing political awareness and political and economic liberty of women, continued to grow. -
Vietnam War including the fall of Saigon 1975
Was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam -
RustBelt and SunBelt
The Rust Belt area is a region that consists of areas in the Midwestern and Northeastern US.
The Sun Belt consists of the warm climate states that make up the Southern third of the Continental United States. -
1980s Culture
The Berlin Wall fell and mostly the clothes were neon and movies were improving big time!
