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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.Before he become president,he was appointed U.S. Army Chief of Staff during WWII.He was also a supreme commander of the Allied forces in Western Europe during the war. -
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was an American businessman who was best known for buying the Company of McDonald's from the McDonald Brothers in 1955 and later expanding the company from a local chain to the world's most profitable restaurant franchise operation. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson was the 37th President of the United States after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.Even though he was known for his achievements he earned for the country,such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act as well,he would later meet his downfall when he shifted his focus the Vietnam War and would not re turn for a second term. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States and was the first president to ever resign from office.He was well-known for putting an end in the involvement in the Vietnam War and brought back American POW's home.He was also known for visiting China and the Soviet Union to cease the tension with the two countries. -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was the 35 President of the United States.He was considered to be the youngest president at the time and was the first Roman Catholic to hold office.He has also joined the U.S. Navy before becoming president and had earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism. Kennedy's presidency was known for it's focus on the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War,but much of presidency was more focused on managing relation with the Soviet Union. -
The House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Un-American Activities Committee was an investigative committee of the House of Representatives.It was created during the early days of the Cold War to investigate allegations of communist activity in the U.S. -
The G.I. Bill
The G.I. Bill was law that had provided a range of benefits for returning veterans after WWII. -
The Cold War
The Cold War was a 45-year long rivalry between the United States and The Soviet Union for global dominance in which the two main superpowers had wanted to spread their ideologies into different parts of the world.Although the Cold War didn't involve with the two countries directly going to war with each other,there were a series of proxy wars that involved with them. -
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a term that had received prominence after Winston Churchill's speech in which said that an "iron curtain has descended" across Europe,which he was referring to the boundary line that had divided Europe into two different political areas: Western and Easter Europe. -
The Baby Boomer Generation
The Baby Boomer Generation was era where a person was born between 1946 and 1964.The era had made a substantial portion of the world's population, especially in developed nations:it represented nearly 20% of the American public -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy that would support any country that was threaten by the Soviet Union. -
The Containment Policy
The Containment Policy was a strategic foreign policy created by the United States to prevent the spread of communism. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to support Western Europe,in which the US had given over $13 billion in economic assistance to support Western Europe after the events of WWII. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) was a intergovernmental military alliance between North America and the nations of Western Europe to provide collective security against Soviet Union. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was an armed conflict between North Korea,which was supported by Communist China and the Soviet Union,and South Korea,which was supported mainly by the United States.The war had all started when North Korean forces had crossed the 38th parallel,the boundary between North and South Korea,and invaded South Korea.This war was also considered to be the first military action of the Cold War. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism was a term that referred to the practice of making false accusations of subversion or treason to people who were claimed to be,but not actually,in a communist organization.The crisis had started when When Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy had created a series of false investigations and hearings during the 1950's in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of varies parts of the United States. -
The Domino Theory
The Domino Theory was a theory that had suggested if one country in a region had fallen under the influence of communism,then the surrounding countries would be fallen into that influence as well. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict that occurred in both Vietnam, Laos ,Cambodia and was fought between North Vietnam,a communist country supported by the Soviet Union and China,and South Vietnam,a capitalist country that was mainly supported by the United States. -
The Interstate Highway Act
The Interstate Highway Act was a bill that was to construct a 41,000 mile system of interstate and defense highways that would,according to President Eisenhower himself, eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes,traffic jams and all other things that got in the way of "speedy, transcontinental travel." -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite to be launched and to orbit around Earth' s atmosphere.It also sparked the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union as well. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed invasion by the CIA to overthrow the rule of Fidel Castro,who had taken over the country and put it under communist rule. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over the concern of American ballistic missile deployment in both Italy and Turkey with the consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
The Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the U.S. that were launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson.The main goal of these programs were to eliminate poverty and put an end to racial injustice in the South. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joint resolution that Congress had passed in response of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. -
The Tet Offensive of 1968
The Tet Offensive of 1968 was a series of attacks by the Viet Cong on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.The offensive was an attempt to urge a rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and had encourage the U.S. to pull back it's involvement in the war. -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization was a policy that was part of the Richard Administration to put an end to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. -
The Landing on the Moon
The Moon Landing,or Apollo 11,was the spaceflight that had the first two humans land on the Moon. -
The War Powers Act of 1973
The War Powers Act was a federal law that was intended to the president's power to commit the U.S. to an armed conflict without the permission of Congress.
