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GI Bill
Gave unemployment and made an agency to help veterans find jobs -
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immagration
European immigrants coming after escaping Nazi control -
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containment
was the U.S. response to communism, gives forging aid to countries that are close to falling to communism -
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baby boom
more than 65 million baby's were born in the 15 years due to the war ending and people wanting to start families -
united nations
created to deal with problems that countrys have with eachother -
youth changes
teens started changing their looks and looking the same, they loved rock n roll -
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korean war
a war broke out between north and south Korea. north korea was a communist party and south was a democratic party. -
Vietnam war
north Nam was communist and south was a monarch, due to the different political views, Eisenhower created the domino theory. saying that if Nam falls to communism then all of Southeast Asia would too. -
Montgomery bus boycott
African Americans didn't ride buses for 381 days. caused the supreme court to let blacks sit anywhere they want on buses -
space race (satellites)
the soviets launched sputnik, a satellite, into space beating the U.S. A year later the U.S. launched explorer 1 -
Cuba and Fidel Castro
Castro took power and started to take over U.S. owned company's and took aid from the soviet union -
the new frontier
it was an addition to the new deal programs but was blocked by congress -
first televised presidential debate
the presidential debate between JKF and Richard Nixon were televised -
the berlin wall
a wall between east and west berlin to keep people out -
cuban missle crisis
soviets put missles in cuba and the u.s. has missles in turkey. almost escalated into a full war -
Martin luther king jr march
MLK set up a march through Washington D.C. 250,000 people marched -
kennedys assassination
in dallas texas, kennedy was in an open car and was shot twice by lee Harvey Oswald -
poverty speech
Johnson presented his speech saying we are at war with poverty an asked for funding to help those under the poverty line -
civil rights act of 1964
banned discrimination based on someone's race, religion, gender, or national origin -
gulf of tonkin
U.S. destroyer ships were patrolling and were attacked by north Vietnamese patrol boats -
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tet offensive
an attack by the north Vietnamese and the Viet Cong, they attacked every major city and military base in south Vietnam -
indian civil rights act of 1968
extends bill of rights to native Americans and recognizes local laws on reservations -
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woodstock
400,000 people. it was a symbol of peace and th singers sang about current events of the times -
equal rights amendment
no matter what sex, people cant be denied rights due to their gender
