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House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
This committee was created to investigate citizens who the Government felt were possibly spies. -
War powers Act
An American Emergency law that was passed by FDR right after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. -
Containment Policy
A policy created by the US to prevent the spread of Communism. -
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain, the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself from the rest of the world. -
Truman Doctirne
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Berlin Airlift
First major Crisis of the Cold war. The soviets didnt want Germany to be reunified -
Marshall Plan
It was an American duty to aid Europe and Asia, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice
of accusing of subversion
and treason without
proper evidence. -
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Cold War
It was mainly a period of tension between the U.S and the Soviet Union. A stalemate. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was a scientist and a doctor that made a huge impact in medical history. Salk was the one who discovered the 3 distinct polio viruses. With this information he managed to come up with a vaccine that proved successful in getting rid of the disease. This is highly important today to prevent the virus from coming back and preventing fututre generations from dealing with it. -
Rosenberg Trial
When two American citizens
were executed for conspiracy
to commit espionage,
relating to passing
information about the
atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. -
Dwight D Eisenhower
Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States. He tried to reduce cold war tension with military negotiation. He was important due to trying to ease cold war tension and continue what FDR started with the New Deal policy. -
Domino Theory
If one state falls to communism, they all will fall under communism. -
Vietnam War
It was a war between North and South Vietnam. The U.S got involved due to the Truman Doctrine, and in order to prevent the Domino Theory from occurring. It proved unsuccessful. -
Korean War
War between North and South Korea in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
Mao Zedong
A Chinese Coomunist that was the founding father of the People's Republic of China. He failed to run his country though, and recieved lots of critisism. -
Gary Powers
A U-2 plane was brought down near near Svedlovsk, Soviet Union by a possible surface to air missile. It's a huge mystery due to not enough valid evidence, but its important due to damaging the relationships between the U.S and the Soviet Union -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union about Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. -
Great Society
These were programs made by Lyndon B. Johnson in his war on poverty. -
Anti War Movement
a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. -
John F. Kennedy
JFK was involved with many issues such as Cuban Missile Crisis and negotiations to keep World War 3 occuring with the Soviet Union during the nuclear race. In domestic policy he was highly important in the fight for equal rights for African Americans. He supported many movements including the March on Washington. He passed the Civil rights act shortly before his death. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
The 36th President of the United State. He took office after hearing about the assassination of JFK. He was a large part of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. -
Abby Hoffman
A civil rights activist that co-founded the group Yippies in 68' and protested the Vietnam war. He got in trouble for coke. -
Tet Offensive
One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. -
Roy Benavidez
A former member of the United States Army Special Forces who received the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions in combat near South Vietnam. -
Richard Nixon
The 37th President of the United States. The only President to resign from office. He was largely apart of the Vietnam War and attempting to get troops out of there. -
Vietnaminzation
A policy that Nixon created while he was in office to get the troops out of Vietnam.
