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Dwight D Eisenhower
The 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II -
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Mao Zedong
Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China -
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Lyndon B Johnson
the 36th President of the United States, a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President -
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Richard Nixon
the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 -
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Jonas Salk
American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine. -
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John F Kennedy
American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 -
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Gary Powers
American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. -
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Roy Benavidez
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 -
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Abbie Hoffman
American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party -
War powers act
American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II -
HUAC
a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, investigated allegations of communist activity in the U.S. during the early years of the Cold War -
Cold War
political hostility between countries characterized by threats -
Iron Curtain
were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union -
Truman Doctrine
established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces -
Containment policy
was a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War -
Marshall Plan
was an American initiative to aid Europe and Asia, in which the United States gave $13 billion -
Berlin Airlift
t the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany -
“McCarthyism”
a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy -
Korean War
conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea -
Rosenburg Trail
Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians -
Domino Theroy
at speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
Vietnam War
armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies -
Cuban Missile Crisis
was a pivotal moment in the Cold War. -
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 -
Great Society
set of domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Tet Offensive 1968
coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
Vietnamization
policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end U.S. involvement in the war
