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Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was the 34th President of The United States. He was president from 1953 to 1961. -
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Ray Kroc
He built and made one of the most successful fast food in the world. He was an American businessan and philanthropist. He joined McDonald's in 1954. -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
He was the 36th Presedint of The United States. -
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McCarthyism
Is the practice of making accusations of subversion or teason without proper regard for evidence. -
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Jonas salk
He was a medical researcher. He came up with a vaccine for polio. In the year 1955 his vaccine was being used to help the outbreak of polio. -
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John F. Kennedy
He was the 35th president of The United States. He was assassinated in Dallas Texas. -
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Betty Friedan
She was an American writer, activist, and feminist. She founded National Organization for Women, NARAL Pro-Choice America. -
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Gary Powers
He was an american pilot. The U-2 plane was shot down while flying during a mission in the Soviet Union. -
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Roy Benavidez
He was a member of the united states army special forces and retired united states army master sergeant who received the medal of honor for his valorous actions. -
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Abbie Hoffman
He was the co founded the Youth International Party. He was an American Political and social activist and anarchist. -
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house un-american activities committee
created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Its first chairman, Martin Dies, set the pattern for its anti-Communist investigations. -
War power act
also known as the First War Powers Act, was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. -
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venona Papers
is a list of names ostensibly deciphered from codenames contained in the Venona project, an American government effort from 1943-1980 to decrypt coded messages by intelligence forces of the Soviet Union. -
g.i bill
signed into law by President Roosevelt, commonly known as the G.I. Bill of Rights. politicians wanted to avoid the postwar confusion about veterans' benefits that became a political football in the 1920s and 1930s. -
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Iron Curtain
It was not a real curtain. It was imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas. This symbolized efforts that the Soviet Union to block itself from the ones they did not like. -
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Baby boom generation
also known as the First War Powers Act, was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. -
Truman Doctrine
was militaty anad economic aid to greece and turkey. By extension to any country threatened by communism or any totalitarian ideology. -
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Cold war
The cold war was a conflict after WWII. This was between The United States and the Soviet Union. -
Containment Policy
Was a policy using numerous strategies to prevent the the spread of communism abroad. This policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europr, China, Korea, and Vietnam. -
Marshall Plan
Was an act that president Truman signed. The Economic Recovery Act. It proposed that the United STates provide economic assistance to restore the economic. -
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Berlin Airlift
The U.S., British and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. This happened at the end of the second World War. -
NATO
is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
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1950
Fashion changed. Many people thought about the American Dream. -
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Domino Theory
that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
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beatniks
was a media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. -
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Korean war
was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
Rosenberg Trial
Ethel and Julius where accused of salling nuclear secrets to the russians. They could not be charged because the United States was not at war with the Soviet Union. -
interstate highway act
popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act . when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. -
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Space race
competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States , for supremacy in spaceflight capability. -
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1960's
The 60's where a time of people being in diffrent places. Some people where into peach and no war while some where. -
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Bay of Pigs
known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
This was between the UNited States and the Soviet Union. This was because of a development of missiles in Cuba. This lasted 13 days. -
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Richard Nixon
He was the 37th presedent of The United States. He was the only U.S. president to resign the office. -
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Great Society
was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. -
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. -
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Miranda V. Arizona
was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court. the Court held that both inculpatory and exculpatory statements. -
tet offensive
was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces -
Vietnamization
introduced a new strategy called Vietnamization that was aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War -
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1970's
this was the time of pet rocks, mood rings, water beds, srystals. social progressive values like increasing political awareness and feminism really took hold. -
Vietnam war Including the fall of Saigon 1975
Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, forcing South Vietnam to surrender and bringing about an end to the Vietnam War. -
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1980's
This was a dig step for everyone. This was the technology time. MTV was first put on tv.