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Dwight D Eisenhower
34th president of the United States -
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Mao Zedong
Principal Chinese theorist, he was a soldier and a salesman -
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Lydon B. Johson
Vice president with John F. Kennedy; running mate -
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Richard Nixon
37th president of the United States -
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Jonas Salk
medical researcher who developed the first safe and effective vaccine for polio -
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John F. Kennedy
35th president of the United States; youngest man elected into office -
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Rosenburg Trail
the sum of many stories -
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Gary Powers
A piolet who was shot down while flying through Soviet Airspace -
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Roy Benavidez
A member of the U.S. army and retired, he recieved the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat -
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Abby Hoffman
American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth Party -
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House Un-American Activities Committee
created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. -
War on Powers Act
An emergency law that increased Federal power during WWII -
Iron Curtain
erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself -
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Containment Policy
A way to prevent the spread of communism abroad -
Truman Doctrine
Reoriented the U.S. foreign policy, a way from its usual stance of withdrawel from regional conflicts -
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Cold War
A war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that lasted for a main chunk in the 20th century -
Marshall Plan
An American inititative to aid Europe from Asia -
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Berlin Airlift
A "rescue" mission of the U.S. to bring West Germans and people of Belin supplies -
McCarthyism
The pracitce of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
Anti-War Movement
Somewhere in the q900's, but anyways Anti-War marches and other protests such as the ones organized ny SOS (Sudents for a Democratic Society) -
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Korean War
A war that began when 75,000 soldiers from North Korea crossed the bounderies that divided the two. -
Domino Theory
If one region of a country came under the influence of communism then the countries around it would fall into it as well -
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Vietnam War
The part of the Viet Cong in the firghting decreased as the role of the NVA grew -
Great Society
set of domestic programs i the U.S. launched by President Lydyon B Johnson -
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Cuban Missle Crisis
13 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union; where JFK was informed that the S.U. was keeping missles in Cuba -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A signed paper giving President Johnson permission to take any measures of peace and security in South Asia -
Tet Offensive
A coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam -
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Vietnamization
The building up of South Vietnams military strength in order to fidiolate a gradual withdrawl of U.S. troops.
