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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890. He was the 34th president of the United States. He was a supreme war general of the allied forces during World War II. Dwight D. Eisenhower on March 28, 1969. -
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was born on October 5, 1902. He was an American businessman who joint in building Mcdonalds in 1954. Ray Kroc died on January 14, 1984. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on August 27, 1908. He served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Lyndon B. Johnson died on January 22, 1973. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913. He was the 37th president of the Unites States and the only one to resign from office. Richard Nixon died on April 22, 1994. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was born on October 28, 1914. He was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine, the news of his discovery went public on April 12, 1955. Jonas Salk died on June 23, 1995. -
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917. He was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States. He served his term from January 1961 untill he was assassinated on November 22, 1963. -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was born on February 4, 1921. She was an American writer, activist, and feminist and many believe she sparked the womens movement even more. Betty Friedan died on February 4, 2006. -
Gary Powers
Francis Gary Powers was born on August 17, 1929. He was an American pilot who was shot down by soviet forces while flying a U-2 spy plane on a reconnaissance mission. Gary Powers died on August 1, 1977. -
Roy Benavidez
Raul Perez Benavidez was born on August 5, 1935. He was a major seargent in the Unites States Army who recieved the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam War. Roy Benavidez died on November 29, 1998. -
Abbie Hoffman
Abbot Howard Hoffman was born on November 30, 1936. He was an American political and social activist and anarchist who co-founded the Youth International Party. Abbie Hoffman died on April 12, 1989. -
HUAC
The House Un-American Activities Committee was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. -
War Powers Act
The first War Powers Act was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. -
Venona Papers
The Venona papers is a list of names ostensibly deciphered from codenames contained in the Venona project. -
G. I. Bill
The GI Bill granted benefits to returning veterans. -
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Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was an imaginary boundary line dividing Europe. It was reffered to as so because it symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non-Soviet-controlled areas. -
Containment Policy
The Containment Policy was created by George F. Kennan and lasted from 1945 to 1952. It was the basic strategy the United States used to fight the Soviet Union in which they tried to keep Communism from spreading. -
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Baby Boom Generation
The Baby Boom Generation is the generation that spans between 1946 to 1964, in which many Americans began having babies due to the ending of the war. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. It was further developed on July 12, 1948. -
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of military and political tension between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its Communist allies. -
Marshall Plan
The 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
The Berlin Airlift lasted from June 24, 1948 to May 11, 1949. Since Berlin was located far into Western Germany, and a part of it was surrounded by a Soviet Blockade, Allied forces used planes to deliver goods to the citizerns located in East Berlin. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
1950s Culture
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McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of accusing people of being Communist without proof or evidence. -
Rock n' Roll
Rock n' Roll was a popular type of music that originated in the early 50s. -
Beatniks
A young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation. -
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Koresn War
The Korean War was a war waged by North and South Korea. North was in favor of Communism and the Soth was not, therefore aided by the United States. -
Rosenberg Trial
A court case that began in New York Southern District federal court. Dealt with the espionage prosecution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. -
Domino Theory
Theory that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam and a few surrounding countries. Southern Vietnam was in favor of Non-Communism and so the US supported it, however it came to a point where the US had to depart from Vietnam and thus leaving the country and its surrounding countries to fall to Commnism. -
Interstate Highway Act
The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. -
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Space Race
The Space Race was a competition between the US and the the Soviet Union to see which of the two had supremecy in spaceflight capability. The Soviet Union was the first to send a setillite into space and the US was the first to land a man on the moon. -
1960s Culture
Human Rights, Music, Drugs, Hair Styles -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was a failed military attempt by the CIA to invade Cuba. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 14-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Dealt with the deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba. Lasted from October 14, 1962 to 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. -
Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by LBJ. The purpose of it was to eliminate poverty and social injustice. -
Medicare
President Lyndon Johnson established this program in order to aid the elderly. -
Medicaid
President Lyndon Johnson established this program in order to aid the poor. -
Miranda v. Arizona
Miranda v Arizona, the Court ruled that prior to being questioned suspects have to be informed of their right to remain silent, that anything they say can be used against them in court, that they have the right to the presence of an attorney, and that if they cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed prior to questioning if they so desire. -
Tet Offensive
Was an attack set up by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. -
1970s Culture
Drugs, Rock n Roll, Hippies -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization was the policy of Nixon which enabled the US to send an abundance of ground troops and suppies during the war in Vietnam. -
1980s culture
Music, Cars, Video Games -
Rust & Sun Belt
The Rust Belt reffers to the upper Northeastern United States and of its economic decline and loss of insustrial power.
