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War Powers Act
It was important during the post war era because it was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. -
Ant-War Movements
Anti-War Movements were common during post war america because they were oppositions to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict. -
Cold War
The cold war was significant to post war america because the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet block countries and the U.S. led Western powers that were involved. -
Containment Policy
It was big during post war america because it was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam. -
Truman Doctrine
It was significant to post war america because it gave support to countries or people that were threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. -
Marshall Plan
It was significant to post war america because it was an initiative in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
It was an operation during post war america that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany had cut off routes. -
Mao Zedong
He was significant to post war america because he was a Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier and statesman who led his nation's Cultural Revolution. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th U.S. president and the only commander-in-chief to resign from his position, after the 1970s Watergate scandal. -
McCarthyism
This was significant during post war america because it was campaign against alleged communists. -
Korean War
It was significant because it was supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea. -
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Dwight D, Eisenhower
He was the Supreme commander in europe forces in WWII when the Allies won. He also tried to ease the tension in the cold war while he still could. -
Rosenberg Trial
It happened during post war america was significant because the american’s executed committed espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. -
Domino Theory
This idea was about one key nation in a region fell to control of communists, others would follow like toppling dominoes. The theory was used by many American leaders to approve American interference in the Vietnam War. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was the first peron to make human trials of the polio vaccine protected the subject from the polio virus. Being the first man that created the vaccine for Polio he became a hero. -
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Vietnam War
It was a very long, conflict that pitted the communist of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Vietnam Congngress, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
Gary Powers
Gay was flying a U-2 plane over Soviet airspace then got shot down then was captured.. This event made America mad becuause we weren't fighting each other we had peace with them. This made people scared because both countries had nublear warefare. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
He became significant because he became the 36th president following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It was significant to post war america because the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union was over the presence of missile sites in Cuba. -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kenedy was the youngest president and only was in office for three years (1961-1963) then being assaianated. Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy in Dallas, Tx. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
It was important during the post war era because it authorized 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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Great Society
It was a set of domestic programs in the U.S. launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson. They were made to stop poverty and racial injustice. -
Tet Offensive 1968
During the lunar new year holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Vietnam Congress forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. The Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam. -
Roy Benavidez
He was a former 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 in combat significant to post war america. -
Abby Hoffman
He was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party. He is significant to post war america because he was very active in the American civil rights movement. -
Vietnamization
Vietnamination was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end U.S. involvement in the war. It expanded, equiped and trained Vietnam's forces while steadily taking soldiers out of war. -
Iron Curtain
It was the notional barrier separating the former Soviet block and the West. It is significant because it was prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe.
