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Betty Friedan
American feminist, activist and writer. Best known for starting the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book "The Feminine Mystique. She founded the National Organization for Women. -
Roy Benavidez
A war hero of Vietnam, who had been presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor by Reagan. -
HUAC
Stands for The House Committee on Un-American Activities
was 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 powers act
-also known as the First War Powers Act, was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and put into law on December 18, 1941, less than two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
-stated that the president must report to Congress within 2 days of putting troops in danger in a foreign country. -
G.I Bill
any Department of Veterans Affairs education benefit earned by members of Active Duty, Selected Reserve and National Guard Armed Forces and their families. The benefit is designed to help servicemembers and eligible veterans cover the costs associated with getting an education or training.
-provided for college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans. -
Containment Policy
a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. -
Baby Boom Generation
Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom approximately between the years 1946 and 1964.
-More babies were born in 1946 than ever before: 3.4 million, 20 percent more than in 1945. This was the beginning
-1947, another 3.8 million babies were born; 3.9 million were born in 1952; and more than 4 million were born every year from 1954 until 1964,
-By then, there were 76.4 million “baby boomers” in the United States. They made up almost 40 percent of the natio -
Truman Doctrine
The doctrine states that the U.S. will provide finiancial or economic aid in order to prevent the spread of communism -
Cold War
a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
The US president who sent soldiers to Vietnam because his goal was to stop the spread of communism. -
Marshall Plan
The U.S. helped rebuild Europe by giving them money. This would increase foreign trade and prevent communism.
-The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe,the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies -
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Airlift Truman ordered the beginning of the Berlin Airlift to supply city with food, fule, etc. for 10 months.
- At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
NATO
NATO is a military and defense alliance formed by 12 countries in Western Europe and North America. And the first peace time alliance in US History . It's purpse is to protect its members from a
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Venona Papers
decoding messages sent by soviet union
- 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. -
1950s prosperity
Suburbanism: The movement of many people away from the cities and into newly formed communities just outside the cities White Flight : term denoting a trend wherein whites leave urban communities as the minority -
Rock n Roll
a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from a combination of African-American genres such as blues, boogie-woogie, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music -
Korean War
began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south.
- First military action of the cold war -
Richard Nixon
President during the Rosenburg Trial. The Rosenburgs were convited of being spies for the soviets. -
Beatniks
A group of rebellious writers. They advertised spontaneity, use of drugs, and rebellion against social standards -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- won an appointment to the U.S Military Academy at West Point, New York graduating in the middle of his class in 1915
- Gained an appointment to Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Which he then graduated first of his class of 245
- served as a military aide to General John J. Pershing, commander of U.S. forces during World War I, and later to General Douglas MacArthur, U.S. Army chief of staff.
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Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was a salesman that turned a small eatery into the McDonalds mega-franchise. -
Jonas Salk
- One of the sons of Russian immigrants
- Earned medical degree from New York University school of Medicine in 1959
- Became a scientist physician at Mount Sinal Hospital
- Director of the Virus Research Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1947
- Created to Polio vaccine and helped 45,000 Americans in 1954
- Spent the last years of his life researching and trying t develo a vaccine for AIDS and then died on June 25, 1995 at the age of 80
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Domino Theory
It is A foreign policy during the 1950s to 1980s that states if one one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then surrounding countreis would follow. -
McCarthyism
Unfair accusations of communism. Nickenamed from Joseph McCarthy who was notorious for these unfair accusations
-a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party. -
Rosenberg trail
Involved Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were American communists. They were executed for passing nuclear weapons secrets to the USSR.
-begins in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians -
Interstate highway act
- First started by FDR in the 1930s to expand the job oppertunity for people by creating highways for transportation
- When Dwight D. Eisenhower tool office in January 1953 he continued the experiment tto then finish constructing the 6,500 miles to 45,000 miles
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Space Race
People saw the launching of the Russian satellite Sputnik, as an American loss. This lead to Americans having a desire to futher techonology. -
Bay of Pigs
-a young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista the nation’s American-backed president. For the next two years, officials at the U.S. State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) attempted to push Castro from power. -
John F. Kennedy
- Elected 35th President of the United States in 1960
- Youngest man and first Roman Catholic to hold.
- Ran fo congress in 1946 and was successful
- Ran for senate in 1952 and was also successful
- Provided federal support for civil rights movement
- Confronted Cold war tensions in Cuba
- Was assasinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas
- Known as one of the best loved presidents in american history
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Abbie Hoffman
Abbie Hoffman opposed the Vietnam War & conformity. Founder of a protest group called the "Yipppies" -
Francis Gary Powers
- Pilot of an American U-2 spyplane that was shot down during the flight through soviet airspace
- President Einsenhower sent Powers on a mission to a different country to spy on nuclear weapons that could or might have been used to attack the U.S
- While doing so Gary Powers was shot with missiles and died
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Cuban Missile Crisis
A period in 1962 in which the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba to annoy and scare the United States. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
President LBJ had unlimited power to send U.S troops into Vietnam for protection
Top-secret missions against North Vietnam from 1961
August 2, 1964: attack on U.S destroyer by NVA torpedo boats; U.S fired first
August 4: Alleged second NVA attack against U.S destroyer
Based on second “attack’ Johnson ordered retaliatory airstrikes
Gulf of tonkin resolution allowed military action without declaration of war
recent evidence shows that second attack never happened -
Great Society
President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education. -
Medicaid
It is a federal and state assistance program that pays for health care services for people who cannot afford them
Medicaid is overseen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of HHS. Both were created when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed amendments to the Social Security Act on July 30, 1965 -
Miranda v. Arizona
-This case represents the consolidation of four cases, in each of which the defendant confessed guilt after being subjected to a variety of interrogation techniques without being informed of his Fifth Amendment rights during an interrogation. -
Tet offensive 1968
North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year.
The American Public Reacts
Reduced confidence that the U.S was winning the war
Johnson considered adding 200,000 troops
New York Times leaked article about troop increase; Johnson failed to respond
Johnson reduced troop increase and bombing of North Vietnam -
Rust Belt and Sun Belt
Rust belt: A region where it was mostly manufacturing. People probably moved there for job opportunities Sun Belt: The economy there is composed of electronic, agricultural, aerospace, and oil industries. There targed people wanting to move here would mostly be immigrants -
Vietnam War and The Fall of Saigon
vietnamese from the south try to flee the country snd the city is renamed ho chi minh city. Vietnam threatens to attack with nuclear weapons -
Vietnamization
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 Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops.
