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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight was 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 and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. He then later died March 28, 1969. -
Ray Kroc
Ray was an American businessman and philanthropist. He joined McDonald's in 1954 . Kroc was included in Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, and amassed a fortune during his lifetime. He owned the San Diego Padres baseball team from 1974 until his death on january 14, 1984. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
He was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy,Johnson was a Democrat from Texas also. He died january 22, 1973. -
Richard Nixon
He was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office. Nixon had previously served as a U.S. Representative and Senator from California. He dies on April 22, 1994. -
Jonas Salk
He was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine in his time. Then he also earned his medical degree. Jonas dies in june 23,1995. -
John F. Kennedy
American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 on November 22. -
Betty Friedan
She was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique. She died on February 4, 2006. -
Gary powers
He was a pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. He died August 1, 1997. -
Abbie Hoffman
He was an American political and social activist and anarchist who co- founded the Youth International Party.
Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He died April 12, 1989. -
House Un-American Activities Committee
It was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.It was in order to uncover citizens with Nazi ties inside the United States, but it concentrated its efforts instead on investigating possible Communist Party infiltration. -
War Powers Act
It was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Venona Papers
Decrypt coded messages by intelligence forces of the Soviet Union. -
G.I. Bill
signed into law by President Roosevelt, commonly known as the G.I. Bill of Rights. During the war, politicians wanted to avoid the postwar confusion about veterans' benefits that became a political football in the 1920s and 1930s. -
Iron Curtain
the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non-Soviet-controlled areas. -
Roy Benavidez
He was a 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 near Lộc Ninh, South Vietnam on May 2, 1968. He died November 29, 1998. -
Baby Boom Generation
Baby Boomers are kids born after World War 2 and tons of babies were born between 1946-1947 -
Truman Doctrine
It was a foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
Cold War
The Cold War was the geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle between two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR, that started in 1947 at the end of the Second World War and lasted until the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991. -
Containment Policy
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 -
Marshall Plan
was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air. This effort, known as the “Berlin Airlift,” lasted for more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin. It ended May 11, 1949 -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty . The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
1950's prosperity
The United States was the world’s strongest military power. Its economy was booming, and the fruits of this prosperity–new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods–were available to more people than ever before. -
Mccarthyism
It is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
Rock n' Roll
It is 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. -
Korean War
It was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. The North is communist and the South is a republic. The war stopped July 27, 1953. -
Rosenberg Trial
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg 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. They were executed after. -
Domino Theory
A theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
Interstate Highway Act
It was popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act , was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. -
Space Race (Sputnik and Moon Landings)
The 20th century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States , for supremacy in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the missile based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II.
The space race started 1957 and ended 1975. -
Bay of Pigs
It is known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 250. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. Along with being televised worldwide, it was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. Which it ended October 28, 1962. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing 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. -
Medicaid
On July 30th ,1965 medicaid was established. It provides free or low-cost health coverage to millions of Americans, including some low-income people, families and children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities. -
Midicare
Medicare is a national social insurance program, administered by the U.S. federal government. Medicare provides health insurance for Americans aged 65 and older who have worked and paid into the system. It also provides health insurance to younger people -
Miranda v. Arizona
The defendant was informed of the right to consult with an attorney before and during questioning and of the right against self-incrimination before police questioning, and that the defendant not only understood these rights, but voluntarily waived them. -
Tet Offensive 1968
It was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. Then the Tet offensive halted on Feb 24, 1968. -
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. -
Vietnam War including the fall of saigon 1975
It was fought between North Vietnam supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies and the government of South Vietnam supported by the United States, Philippines and other anti-communist allies. It ended April 30, 1975. Also On April 30, 1975, Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon. -
Great Society
A set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President. It was made for the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. It ended Jan. 4, 1965. -
Rust Belt and Sun Belt
The Rust Belt is a term for the region straddling the upper Northeastern United States, the Great Lakes, and the Midwest States, referring to economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once powerful industrial sector.Sun Belt is a region of the United States generally considered to stretch across the Southeast and Southwest -
1950s culture
The culture is the same but it has a bunch of innovations. -
Anti- War Movement
is 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.
