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Dwight D. Eisenhower
From 1953 to 1961He was the 34 president of the United States -
Mao Zedong
He was the founder of china and a chineese communist. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Know as LBJ He was the 36 president of the united states. -
Richard Nixon
Was the 37th president of the united states. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was known for the polio vaccine along with his colleagues -
John F. Kennedy
He was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
Gary Powers
Francis gary powers was an american piolit ,while flying a reconnaissance mission over soviet union airspace his spy plane was shot down -
Roy Benavidez
He is a master sergeant who was a former member of the united states army master sergeant who recived the medal of honor. -
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
An investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. It was originally created in 1938 to uncover citizens with Nazi ties within the United States. -
War Powers Act
The First War Powers Act was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and put into law on December 18, 1941. -
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union. On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman made the proclamation in an address to the U.S. Congress, amid the crisis of the Greek Civil War. Truman insisted that if Greece and Turkey did not receive the aid that they needed, they would inevitably fall to Communism. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. -
Marshall Plan
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, -
Berlin Airlift
It was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
Containment Policy
Containment was a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
McCarthyism
A campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although. -
Domino Theory
A theory that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North. -
Rosenberg Trail
A story of betrayal, a love story, a spy story, a story of a family torn apart, and a story of government overreaching. -
Vietnam War
It was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba. -
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
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. -
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. -
Tet Offensive 1968
North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. -
Vietnamization
In the Vietnam War the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. -
Abby Hoffman
He was an american political and social activist who co found the youth international.
