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House Un-American Activities Committee
House Un-American Activities Committee, a committee (1938–75) of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Its first chairman, Martin Dies, set the pattern for its anti-Communist investigations. This was all caused from paranoia and absolute hate of communism. -
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rock n' roll
Rock and Roll started out being called "race music" because it was most commonly known by African Americans. In the late 40's there were three songs just called rock and roll. In the Soviet Union they banned Rock n' roll because it gave the people the idea to break down communism. -
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GI Bill
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans. It established hospitals, made low-interest mortgages available and granted stipends covering tuition and expenses for veterans attending college or trade schools. -
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mccarthyism
mccarthyism is based on the actions of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 1940's and 1950's. McCarthyism signifies the extreme anti-Communist movement that occurred in the United States. The period of McCarthyism began in the late 1940s and ended in the mid to late 1950s. -
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Antiwar Movement
By the time of the Tet Offensive, the antiwar movement in the United States had been in full swing for quite some time. Not surprisingly, a large student protest movement emerged as U.S. involvement in Vietnam grew. The younger generation was not in favor for war and it was becoming very unpopular. -
Iron Curtain
The term Iron Curtain had been in occasional and varied use as a metaphor since the 19th century, but it came to prominence only after it was used by the former British prime minister Winston Churchill in a speech at Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946, when he said of the communist states that they had spread a iron curtain over europe. He was referring to the differences between the communist states and the other countries. -
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Baby Boom Generation
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 time frame most commonly used to define them. These would be the people who fought in Vietnam and protested against it -
containment policy
the containment policy was 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. -
Truman Doctrine
With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
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Cold War
After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were the world's strongest nations. They were called superpowers. They fought a war of ideas called the Cold War. The Soviet Union was a communist country while the US was a democracy. -
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Levittown
In the decade after World War II , one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home. The Levitts William, Alfred, and their father, Abe pooled their talents to create storybook towns with affordable little houses. founded by Abraham Levitt on August 2, 1929, which built the district as a planned community between 1947 and 1951. -
The Marshall Plan
On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the act that became known as the Marshall Plan. Participating countries included Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey. -
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berlin airlift
The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. The crisis ended on May 12, 1949, when Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin. -
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. Its goal was to unite the democratic nations against communism in case they attacked. -
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domino theory
The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
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the rosenberg trial
Julius Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950, a few weeks after the Korean War began. He was executed, along with his wife, Ethel, on June 19, 1953, a few weeks before it ended. The legal charge of which the Rosenbergs were convicted was vague: “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage. -
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1950's prosperity
The 1950's prosperity was a period during the 1950's where the us was experiencing a boom in economy, population, and culture. The United states was the leader in military power and the economic center of the world. The US was not only growing in the homeland, but also spending massive amounts of money to fund the future of other nations that fell during world war 2 -
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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. -
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Korean War
the Korean war was fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. It lasted 3 years and ended with a draw -
Dwight D Eisenhower
In 1945 Dwight D Eisenhower was appointed U.S. Army chief of staff. He became the first Supreme Allied Commander of the NATO in 1951. In 1952 he was elected U.S. president. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was one of the leading scientists of the twentieth century and the creator of the first polio vaccine. He grew up poor in New York City, where his father worked in the garment district. Salk announced the polio vaccine on Mar 26, 1953. -
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The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War 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, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954. -
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was an American entrepreneur best known for expanding McDonald’s from a local chain to the world’s most profitable restaurant franchise operation. It was in his role as a milkshake machine salesman that Kroc first became involved with McDonald's. The McDonald brothers were clients who had purchased multiple mixers. -
interstate highway act
National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. It took several years of wrangling, but a new Federal-Aid Highway Act passed in June 1956. The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. -
Sputnik
when the former Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a basketball, weighed only 183 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. The Sputnik launch changed everything for the space race. -
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Space Race
Space Race was a competition in the exploration of space between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Space Race started as the Russians developed rocket technology and launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth, on October 4, 1957. The Soviet Union was winning for the most part, until the end, when the US landed on the moon -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy summary: John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. He was born in 1917 into a wealthy family with considerable political ties. Kennedy studied Political Science at Harvard University. He was elected on November 8, 1960. -
The Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The US basically invaded Cuba to topple the Fidel Castro. The plan failed obviously and Cuba remanded under Castro control -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union. The USSR was supplying Cuba with nuclear missiles that threatened the US. The US retaliated by imposing a blockade on Cuba and tried to get the USSR to take out the missiles from Cuba. -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique. With her book Betty Friedan broke new ground by exploring the idea of women finding personal fulfillment outside of their traditional roles. -
Lyndon B Johnson
Lyndon Johnson, was the 36th president of the United States of America. He became president after Kennedy was assassinated, and Johnson became the 36th U.S. president In 1963. -
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The Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. Anti-war Democrats complained that spending on the Vietnam War choked off the Great Society. -
the 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. -
The Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive, In late January, 1968, during the lunar new year (or “Tet”) holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. -
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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 Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops. -
Moon Landing
Lunar Landing Mission, Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. The astronauts also returned to Earth the first samples from another planetary body. -
26th amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was a Republican congressman who served as vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower. Nixon ran for president in 1960 but lost to John F. Kennedy. He was elected President in 1968, won re-election in 1972, and resigned in 1974 after the Watergate scandal.
