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House Un-American Activities Committee
a committee 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 -
War Powers Act
War Powers Act, was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt -
G.I. Bill
a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans, Benefits included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend university, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. -
Iron curtain
imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non-Soviet-controlled areas -
Containment Policy
a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad...This happened because the stageties the Soviet used to enlarge it's communist sphere -
Baby Boom Generation
Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post–World War II -
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 -
Cold War
a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc.
Warsaw pact was created during this dispute and so was NATO -
McCarthyism
practice of making accusations of treason without proper regard for evidence -
Marshall plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of March 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II -
Berlin Airlift
Soviet union blockade rail to stop import of food and basic neccessity,United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. The crisis ended on May 12, 1949 -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states—especially the United States and Europe—and to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact -
Domino Theory
a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall -
1950's prosperity
Suburbs - People moved to the suburbs to start a family away from the city... White flight - migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban -
(50,60,70,80)'s
In the 50 cars just started coming out more and became awell profit company.
In the 60 cars were the best way to go to place and travel.
In the 70 there were thousands of drive thru places to show your car to other.
In the 80 cars were a normal thing that help people get to places or leave places. -
Korean war
A war that started with the division of Korea, from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards.... and the U.S. helped south and (China and Soviet union) helped the north. -
Rock & Roll
became a distinct entity for the first time in the 1950s as growing prosperity meant that young people did not have to grow up as quickly or be expected to support a family. Rock-and-roll proved to be a difficult phenomenon for older Americans to accept and there were widespread accusations of it being a communist-orchestrated scheme to corrupt the youth -
Rosenberg Trial
A trial against Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th president of the United States, promoted Atoms for Peace at the United Nations General Assembly in order to ease Cold War tensions -
Jonas Salk
American physician and medical researcher who developed the first safe and effective vaccine for polio -
Anti-War movement include
riots, marches, meetings -
Vietnam War
North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 Around 58,000 men died in the war -
Beatniks
a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation -
Interstate Highway Act
President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. The bill created a 41,000-mile “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” that would help with a quick evacuation from an atomic threat -
Ray Kroc
an American entrepreneur best known for expanding McDonald’s from a local chain to the world’s most profitable restaurant franchise operation -
Bay Of Pigs
unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by other hated cubans supported by the U.S. government.Armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs). They were trained for a year to over throw Cuba's communist beleifs. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict -
Betty Friedan
Writer, feminist and women's rights activist Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963) and co-founded the National Organization for Women -
Jon F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president, negotiated the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and initiated the Alliance for Progress. He was assassinated in 1963 -
Great Society
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 -
Gulf Of Tonkin
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 -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson initiated the "Great Society" social service programs, signed the Civil Rights Act into law, and bore the brunt of national opposition to his vast expansion of American involvement in the Vietnam War -
Miranda V. Arizona
He was then interrogated by two police officers for two hours, which resulted in a signed, written confession Miranda was found guilty of kidnapping and rape and was sentenced to 20-30 years imprisonment on each count the defendant given a full and effective warning of his rights -
Abbie Hoffman
He was active in the American civil rights movement before turning to protests of the Vietnam War and the American economic and political system -
Tet Offensive
one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army -
Richard Nixon
the 37th U.S. president and the only commander-in-chief to resign from his position, after the 1970s Watergate scandal -
Vietnamization
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 -
Space Race
a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability -
26th Amendment
18 is the new age to vote for citizens -
Rust Belt & Sun Belt
They had more money and some were fresh out the war and wanted to start a family -
Roy Benavidez
member of the United States Army Special Forces and retired United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor 1981 for his actions in Vietnam.
