Post War America

Dwight D.Eisenhower

Period: Oct 14, 1890 to Mar 28, 1969

Ray Kroc

Period: Oct 5, 1902 to Jan 14, 1984

Lyndon B. Johnson

Period: Aug 27, 1908 to Jan 22, 1973

Richard "Dick" Nixon

Period: Jan 9, 1913 to Apr 22, 1994

Presidential term: January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974

Jonas Salk

Period: Oct 28, 1914 to Jun 23, 1995

John F. Kennedy

Period: May 29, 1917 to Nov 22, 1963

Betty Friedan

Period: Feb 4, 1921 to Feb 4, 2006

Gary Powers

Period: Aug 17, 1929 to Aug 1, 1977

Roy Benavidez

Period: Aug 5, 1935 to Nov 29, 1998

Abby Hoffman

Period: Nov 30, 1936 to Apr 12, 1989

House Un-American Activities Committee

Period: May 26, 1938 to Apr 5, 1975

May 26, 1938

Venona Project

Apr 4, 1940

G.I. Bill Enacted

Jun 22, 1944

Churchill delivers his Iron Curtain Speech

Mar 5, 1946

Cold war

Period: Apr 5, 1947 to Apr 5, 1991

Kennedy helped win

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Apr 4, 1949

1950's Prosperity

Period: Jan 5, 1950 to Dec 31, 1959

1950's

Beatniks

Period: Apr 5, 1950 to Apr 5, 1965

Beatnik 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.

Domino theory

Apr 7, 1954

Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed the domino theory in one of his speeches

Vietnam War

Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975

Sputnik Launch

Oct 7, 1957

Russians launch Sputnik satillite

Great Society

May 22, 1964

Lyndon B. Johnson introduces "Great Society"

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Aug 7, 1964

Medicaid

Jul 30, 1965

Tet Offensive

Jan 30, 1968

Moon Landing

Jul 20, 1969

Rustbelt and Sunbelt Migration

Apr 5, 1970

Fall of Saigon

Apr 30, 1975