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Ray Kroc
He was a philanthropist. He joined McDonalds in 1945 and made it the most succesful fast food resturant. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the commander of the Allied Forces during World War II. He also lead the the Nazi-occupied Europe. -
Richard Nixon
37th President of the United States, from 1969 to 1974. He was the only U.S. president to resign the office -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was a medical researcher and is well known because he is the developer of Polio Vaccine. He died on June 23, 1995 from a heart failure. -
John F Kennedy
Was the 35th president of the United States. Was assassinated November 22, 1963 in Dallas Tx -
Betty Friedan
She was an American writer, activist and feminist. She wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963) and co-founded the National Organization for Women. -
Gary Powers
An american pilot, his U-2 spy plane was shot down while doing a mission. -
Roy Benavidez
Roy was a member of the United States Army Special Forces, he recieved the Medal of Honor. -
Abbie Hoffman
Abbot Howard was known was Abbie Hoffman, was an american political and social activist. He also co founded the Youth International Party. -
HUAC
was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives -
Rock n' Roll
Rock and roll 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 such as blues, boogie-woogie, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music, Together with Western swing and country music. Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, The genre did not acquire its name until the 1950s. -
War Powers Act
An American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt less than two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The act was similar to the Departmental Reorganization Act of 1917 as it was signed shortly before the U.S. engaged in a large war and increased the powers of the president's U.S. Executive Branch. The act gave the President enormous authority to execute WWII in an efficient manner. -
Venoa Papers
Made to make coded messages by intelligence forces of the Soviet Union -
G.I Bill
Department of Veterans Affairs education benefit earned by members of Active Duty, -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain is the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II . -
Baby Boom generation
The term "Baby Boom" is used to identify a massive increase in births following World War II. Baby boomers are those people born worldwide between 1946 and 1964. The first baby boomers reached the standard retirement age of 65 in 2011. There are about 76 million boomers in the U.S., representing about 29 percent of the population. In Canada, they are known as "Boomies;" six million reside there. In Britain, the boomer generation is known as "the bulge." -
Truman Doctrine
He was the one who created the counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War -
Cold War
Tension after World War II. The cold war happend after World War II. -
Containment Policy
Truman helped create the Containment Policy , it was basically to insure that the communist governments will eventually fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence. -
Marshall Plan
The United States helped out the Western Europe and gave them 13 milon dollars -
Berlin Airlift
the us, britian and Soviet military forces divided and took over German -
North atlantic treay organization
Was created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Beatniks
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. -
Medicaid
federal and state program that helps low-income individuals or families p=out with health issues. -
Rust Belt And Sun Belt
The rust belt has to do with the Northeastern United States, the Great Lakes, and the Midwest States mostly about economic decline -
McCarthyism
it is basicallly accusations with any real evidence -
Korean War
The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. -
domino theory
When one country came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
Vietman War / fall of the saigom 1975
The Vietman War was a very long war,a gainst South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States -
Interstate Highway Act
President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. The bill created a 41,000-mile “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” that would, according to Eisenhower, eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way of “speedy, safe transcontinental travel.” At the same time, highway advocates argued, “in case of atomic attack on our key cities, the road net [would] permit quick evacuation of target areas.” -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. A counter-revolutionary military, trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF) and intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It was a 13 day thing between the United States and the Soviet Union , it was a conformation. It was over the Soviet Unions ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba -
Miranda v Arizona
Ernesto Miranda, was charged with kidnap rape and robbery. Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court. In a 5-4 majority, the Court held that both inculpatory and exculpatory statements made in response to interrogation by a defendant in police custody will be admissible at trial only if the prosecution can show that the defendant was informed. -
Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution
Authorized by President Johnson it was passed to basically promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Great Society
Created by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 through 1965, the main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. -
Medicare
In the United States, Medicare is a national social insurance program, administered by the U.S. federal government since 1966, currently using about 30 private insurance companies across the United States. 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 with disabilities, end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. -
Tet Offensive 1968
Was one of the largest military bases in the US. -
Vietnamization
U.S. President Richard Nixon introduced a new strategy called Vietnamization that was aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. The increasingly unpopular war had created deep divisions in American society. Nixon believed his Vietnamization strategy, which involved building up South Vietnam’s military strength in order to facilitate a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops, would prepare the South Vietnamese. -
Rosenberg Trail
It started in New York .It was a trail between Ethel and Julis Rosenberg the were both accused of secretly selling nucleur bombs.
