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34th President of the United States.
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American businessman, who joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world.
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36th President of the United States
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Practice of making accusations without evidence.
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37th President of the United States.
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He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.
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He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.
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A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her book Feminine Mystique sparkle the second wave of American feminism.
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Committee created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations.
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Baby boomer is a term referring to a person who was born between 1946 and 1964. In 2017, they are 20% of the population.
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Barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West because of communism.
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Policy that used numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
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A period of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, etc.
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It 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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Law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans
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The United States gave over $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
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During the occupation of Germany after WWII, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railroad, road, canal, etc. And they would only drop this blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche mark from West Berlin.
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Intergovernmental military alliance, between European countries and the U.S. and Canada.
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The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950s
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If one country became communist then in theory the countries around it would became communist as well.
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Type of music characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies.
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One of seven large suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons.
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Stereotype prevalent that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s.
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It began when North Korea invaded South Korea. China and Soviet Union were with North Korea, and the U.S. and the United Nations were with South Korea.
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Trial over the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians
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War between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam.
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It was the construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System, costing $25 billion dollars.
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Competition between the Soviet Union and the U.S. for supremacy in spaceflight capability.
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First artificial Earth satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
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Failed invasion of Cuba.
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Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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35th President of the United States.
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Confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.
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President Johnson's set of domestic programs, his goal was to eliminate poverty, and racial injustice.
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A coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam.
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Social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict.
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The arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon
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President Nixon's strategy to end the involvement of America in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam.
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The right to vote.
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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.
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Rust Belt: Defined by cities that have depleted populations and economies by 1970. This area prospered in the late 19th - 20th century with the US's booming steel and iron industries. In the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. Sun Belt: Warm climate states, characterized by being economically boosted by chemical, electronic, agricultural, aerospace, and oil industries, as well as weapons productions for military advancement projects.
