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Dwight D. Eisenhower, Tet Offensive
Dwight David Eisenhower was an American Army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. The Tet Offensive, or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 by North Vietnam and NFL, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, -
Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only 37th U.S. president. John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
G.I. Bill Servicemen's Readjustment Act. Moon Landing
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1944). Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944, this act, also known as the GI Bill, provided veterans of the Second World War The Space Race. The U.S. competition with the U.S.S.R. for technological dominance spurred the U.S. on to the first-ever landing on the moon. -
Truman Doctrine, Ray Kroc
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc was an American businessman.He joined the California company McDonald's in 1954. -
Marshall Plan, Bay of Pigs
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The Bay of Pigs is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones located on the southern coast of Cuba. By 1910, it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then instead to Las Villas Province by 1961. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization/ Lyndon B. Johnson
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic. Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. -
McCarthyism, War Powers Act
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. The War Powers Resolution is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
Korean War, Containment Policy
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. Containment is a geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. It is best known as a Cold War foreign policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism. -
Vietnam War, Vietnamization
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam. Vietnamization of the war was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces. -
Interstate Highway Act, Domino Theory
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. It took several years of wrangling, but a new Federal-Aid Highway Act passed in June 1956. The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways. The Theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall. -
House Un-American Activities Committee, Cuban Missile Crisis
The House Un-American Activities Committee was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American. -
Gulf of Tonkin incident,
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, sputnik. As a result, the launch of Sputnik served to intensify the arms race and raise Cold War tensions. -
Cold War, Iron Curtain
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
