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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. -
Ray Kroc
He joined the California company McDonald's in 1954, -
Lyndon B Johnson
Was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, "End of Poverty" "Great Society" "Social equality" -
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, Second president to be impeached. -
Jonas Salk
He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. -
John F. Kennedy
American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
Betty Friedan
Friedan co-founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women -
Gary Power
American pilot whose Central Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace -
Roy Benavides
He was a member of the United States Army Special Forces. -
Abbie Hoffman
American political and social activist, anarchist, and revolutionary who co-founded the Youth International Party. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II -
Cold War
Tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Block and powers in the Western Bloc. -
Berlin Airlift
Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies -
Containment policy
Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
An American initiative to aid Western Europe, -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A military alliance between several North American and European countries. -
Korean War
North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations with no evidence. -
Rosenburg Trials
Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. -
Domino Theory
Theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries. Exp: Spread of communism through other countries. -
Interstate Highway Act
41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Major confrontation that brought the US and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missile in Cuba -
Anti War Movement/ Daft 26th amendment/ Credibility Gap/ Silent Majority
The opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict. “Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote” What is said/promised vs what is done "And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support." -
Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Miranda V Arizona
Miranda was not aware of his rights. -
Tet Offensive 1968
North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. -
Space Race
the Soviet Union and the United States and fight for dominance in spaceflight and their capabilities. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite and the Moon landing of United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969. -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization of the war was 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 Vietnamese forces. -
War Powers Act
A federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
Vietnam war/ Fall of Saigon 1975
North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its ally, the United States. National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975 -
Containment policy
Containment was a US policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
