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Betty Friedan
Was a writer, activist, and feminist. She was leading figure in women's movement, in the United States. She is known for her book she made in 1963 titled,"The Feminine Mystique."The book became a sensation—creating a social revolution by dispelling the myth that all women wanted to be happy homemakers. Friedan encouraged women to seek new opportunities for themselves. -
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
It was created to investigate alleged disloyalty, and subversive activities on part of private citizens, public employees, as well as organizations, suspected of having communist ties. Established in 1938, the committee wielded its subpoena power as a weapon and called citizens to testify in high-profile hearings before Congress. This intimidating atmosphere often produced dramatic but questionable revelations about Communists infiltrating American institutions and subversive actions. -
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Baby Boom Generation
This is what they called the generation of people that were born between 1946-1964. Baby boom generation makes up substantial portion of North America, which is about 20% of the American public. Which was from 1946-1964 -
G.I. Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act 1944)
This was an act used to provide federal government aid for the readjustment of the civilian life from returning WWII.t established hospitals, made low-interest mortgages available and granted stipends covering tuition and expenses for veterans attending college or trade schools. From 1944 to 1949, nearly 9 million veterans received close to $4 billion from the bill’s unemployment compensation program. -
Containment Policy
A United States foreign policy doctrine adopted by the Harry S. Truman administration in 1947, operating on the principle that communist governments will eventually fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence. -
Iron Curtain
The national barrier separating, former soviet bloc and west, to decline communism.The communist countries of
Eastern Europe and the NATO democracies of the West were isolated from one another for decades after World War II. The term “Iron Curtain” symbolized this rigid and hostile division. -
Truman Doctrine
which came to be known as the Truman Doctrine, as the official declaration of the Cold War. In February 1947, the British government informed the United States that it could no longer furnish the economic and military assistance it had been providing to Greece and Turkey since the end of World War II. -
Rust Belt vs. Sun Belt
The Sun Belt consists of the warm climate states that make up the Southern third of the Continental United States. These states include California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Florida.The Rust Belt area is a region that consists of areas in the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. The areas are particularly defined by cities that have depleted populations and economies by 1970 -
Levittown
This is the name of 7 huge suburban development created in the United States of America. This was created by William Levitt, as well as with his company Levitt and sons. In particular it is an example of the mass assembly of homes. An argument can also be made that it is one of the best early examples of suburban planning -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political hostility between countries, this was characterized by threats, propaganda, as well as other measures short of open warfare. 1947-1991 also know as a war that involves just words of countries going back and forth talking about what they will do to each other and telling each other not to mess with one another. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. The Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery, meeting its objective of ‘restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole. The plan is named for Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who announced it in a commencement speech at Harvard University. -
Berlin airlift
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany. During the cold war the Berlin Airlift. This Battle was called the first battle of the cold war. They did not believe that he Berlin airlift would not work but it did work and flew around 2,3 million tons of supplies during that time. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
military alliance established by the North Atlantic Treaty (also called the Washington Treaty) of April 4, 1949, which sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II.NATO’s primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies’ military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. -
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Beatniks
Is referred to a young person who was born between 1950's and early 1960's belonging to subculture associated with the beat generation. the Beat Generation thus rose to express their ideals among society. group of American writers, producers, and artists who experimented with drugs, alternative forms of sexuality, interest within the Eastern religious culture, rejection of materialism, and the idealizing of means of expression. -
McCarthyism
name given to the period of time in American history that saw Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy produce a series of investigations and hearings during the 1950s in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government.when he claimed in a speech that 205 communists had infiltrated the State Department. McCarthy’s subsequent search for communists in the Central Intelligence Agency. -
1950's Prosperity
The economy grew by 37% during 1950's inflation. Which wrecked the economy right after World War II.After World War II, Western leaders began to worry that the USSR had what one American diplomat called expansive tendencies; moreover, they believed that the spread of communism anywhere threatened democracy and capitalism everywhere. As a result, communism needed to be contained by diplomacy, by threats or by force -
Korean War
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. The Invasion was the first military action by the cold war. American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf, american believed it was war against international communism. -
Rosenberg Trial
This trail was about an American couple, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians treason could not be charged because the United States was not at war with the Soviet Union. Rosenberg asked him to pass highly confidential instructions on making atomic weapons to the Soviet Union. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower was the United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany.
The 34th president of the United States, presidency. Eisenhower managed Cold War-era tensions with the Soviet Union under the looming threat of nuclear weapons, ended the war in Korea in 1953 and authorized a number of covert anti-communist operations by the CIA around the world. -
Domino theroy
The domino theory was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos.The domino theory was used by successive United States administrations during the Cold War to justify the need for American intervention around the world. -
Jonas salk
He developed a vaccine against poliomyelitis and introduced it in 1955 that was announced on the radio throughout the world. It was also the first type of polio vaccine that became available. Polio, a disease that has affected humanity throughout recorded history, attacks the nervous system and can cause varying degrees of paralysis. Since the virus is easily transmitted, epidemics were commonplace in the first decades of the 20th century. -
Ray Kroc
Was the American who developed McDonald's into one of the biggest fast foods restaurant company in the world.
Bought the company in 1955, from two brother who owned this restaurant in California. Kroc participated in World War I as a Red Cross ambulance driver, lying about his age to begin serving at 15. During his training, Kroc met Walt Disney, with whom he would maintain a professional relationship for most of his life -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a civil conflict that put the South Vietnamese communist government and the North Vietnamese communist government into rebels.
The plan was to overthrow South Vietnamese government, as well as unite Vietnam as a communist state. The War began between south and north korea when the u.s wasn't involved. -
Interstate Highway Act
The Bill created a 41,000 mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways that would eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way. This act was extended three 3 times by legislation and was remember to be Eisenhower's greatest achievement. -
space race
The Space race was a 20th Century competition which was between the soviet union and the United States for power in spaceflight capability. The Space exploration served as another dramatic arena for Cold War competition. this demonstration of the overwhelming power of the R-7 missile–seemingly capable of delivering a nuclear warhead into U.S. air space–made gathering intelligence about Soviet military activities particularly urgent. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the first artificial Earth Satellite Americans reacted with dismay that the Soviets could have gotten so far ahead of the supposedly technologically superior United States. There was also fear that with their new invention, the Soviets had gained the upper hand in the arms race.. -
Rock n Roll
This was a genre of dance music which was originally created throughout the 1950's, It was characterized by a heavy beat and simple melody. The Soviet Union Banned rock n roll music because it gave people the idea to break down communism.America used rock n roll as there secret weapon which involved elvis presely -
Anti-War Movement
Was a social movement which was normally in opposition of particular nations decisions to start an armed conflict, like War. The antiwar movement actually consisted of a number of independent interests, often only vaguely allied and contesting each other on many issues, united only in opposition to the Vietnam War. Attracting members from college campuses, middle-class suburbs, labor unions, and government institutions, the movement gained national prominence in 1965, peaked in 1968. -
Bay of Pigs
Many Cubans welcomed Fidel Castro’s 1959 overthrow of the dictatorial President Fulgencio Batista, yet the new order on the island just about 100 miles from the United States made American officials nervous. Batista had been a corrupt and repressive dictator, but he was considered to be pro-American and was an ally to U.S. companies. -
Cuban Missile Crisi
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders from the U.S. and Soviet Union engaged in a 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962. This was the installation of nuclear armed Soviet missiles on Cuba which was 90 miles away from the U.S. shores. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Was an American Politician, and served as the 36th President of the United States and became president when Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson was chosen as the vice president. Johnson’s legacy was marred by his failure to lead the nation out of the quagmire of the Vietnam War. He declined to run for a second term in office, and retired to his Texas ranch in January 1969. -
John F. Kennedy
Was the 35th president of the United States.John F. Kennedy was the first American president born in the 20th century. The Cold War and the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union were vital international issues throughout his political career. His inaugural address stressed the contest between the free world and the communist world, and he pledged that the American people would pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Joint Committee that the US Congress passed on August 7, 1964 to reply to the Gulf of Tonkin event.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized President Lyndon Johnson to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression by the communist government of North Vietnam. -
Great Society
Was the domestic program in the administration of the President Lyndon B. Johnson, he federally sponsored Social Welfare programs.he main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.Some Great Society proposals were stalled initiatives from John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. Johnson's success depended on his skills of persuasion, coupled with the Democratic landslide in the 1964 election that brought in many new liberals to Congress. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Moon Landing
The entire space program became organized around Kennedy’s mission to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s, a feat that would be attained by three phases: Project Mercury, comprising six missions into space; the intermediary Project Gemini; and the largest component, Apollo. NASA had received a series of bruising setbacks from their Soviet counterparts in the 1950s and 1960s -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization was a strategy that aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam.President Nixon believed his Vietnamization strategy, which involved building up South Vietnam’s armed forces and withdrawing U.S. troops, would prepare the South Vietnamese to act in their own defense against a North Vietnamese takeover and allow the United States to leave Vietnam with its honor intact. -
26th Amendment
This amendment states that the right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 of age or older, shall not be denied or abridged to vote by the U.S. or by any State on account of age. This also goes for the military draft, the age was also lowered to 18. Franklin felt that if you were old enough to vote then you were old enough to come fight in the military. -
war powers act
The War Powers Act allows the President to declare war without consulting Congress. But he is limited to 90 days and then he must have the approval of congress to continue.The act sought to restrain the president’s ability to commit U.S. forces overseas by requiring the executive branch to consult with and report to Congress before involving U.S. forces in foreign hostilities. -
Richard Nixon
He was vice president for Eisenhower, and he then became the 37th president of the United States.Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972.
