Post War America

By tmutune
  • ray kroc

    Was a salesman for 17 years. later on her purchased a resturant company. helped discover mcdonalds
  • Rosenberg Case

    Rosenberg Case

    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg American commuinsts who were executed for passing nuclear weapons secrets to the USSR
  • Betty friedan

    Betty friedan

    Very important figure in the womans movement
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    American medican researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine
  • house of un-american committee

    A committee of the United states house of representatives
  • War Powers Act

    War Powers Act

    Increased federal power during WWll.
  • G.I bill

    G.I bill

    low tuiton and low mortgage housing to veterans
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    U.S would give support to contries that are threatned by Soviet forces or commuinst insurrection.
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990
  • Roy Benavidez

    Roy Benavidez

    Former member of the United States Army Special Forces and retired United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor
  • Iron Curtian

    Iron Curtian

    The national barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the west to the decline of communisim followed the political events in eastern europe in 1989.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    American intiative to aid Europe and Asia in which the united states gave $13 billion in economic help to the European/
  • Containment Policy

    Containment Policy

    A policy that prevents the spread of communism abroad. influenced in Easteren Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam
  • NATO

    NATO

    safeguard the freedom and security of its members through political and military means
  • McCarthyism

    McCarthyism

    A campaign agaisnt alleged communists in the US goverenment carried out under Senator Joesph McCarthy
  • Koren War

    The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea
  • Dwight D Eisenhower

    Dwight D Eisenhower

    34th Preisdent. Was a five general in the United States Army during WW11
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    The War against america and vietnam
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    The Berlin Blockade was when the soviet blocked Western Allies railway, road and canal access to the Berlion under allied control
  • Gary Powers

    Gary Powers

    An American Pilot whose central intelligence agency U-2 spy place was shot down while flying a mission over soviet union airspace
  • Abbie Hoffman

    Abbie Hoffman

    Political and social activist who co founded the youth International party
  • Domino Theory

    Domino Theory

    the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries,
  • JFK

    JFK

    Served as the 35th president of the united states
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    unsuccessful military invasion of cuba
  • Lyndon B Johnson

    Lyndon B Johnson

    aka LBJ 36th president of the united states
  • Golf of Tonkin Resolution

    A resolution allwoing president Johnson to take any meausres that were necessary to retaliate in southeast Asia
  • great society

    great society

    The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964-65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    A new lunar year for the vietnamese and communist cong forces launch an attack towards South Vietnam.
  • Richard Nixion

    Richard Nixion

    The 37th president and the only president to resign from office
  • vietnamization

    vietnamization

    A policy during the vietnam war to end U.S involvement in the war and train, equip and expand south vietnam's forces and assign to them combat roles and at the same time reducing the number of U.S combat troops
  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis

    A confrontation between the united states and the soviet union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in cuba
  • 1950s

    the economy growing by 37%
  • rock n roll

    type of music that is heavy beat
  • medicare

    low costing inurance for the less fortunate to get some tupe of medical help