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She was a feminist best known for her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique and is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.
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It was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and put into law on December 18, 1941, less than two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944,known as the G.I. Bill, it was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning WW2 veterans.
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It was an 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.
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It was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War
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The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. No literal fight went on and there wasnt any winner.
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This happened because of the cold war and giving everyone “the red scare.” This is one of the big things america was afraid of.It was a strategy that was used to try and stop the spread of communism.
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President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act and became known as the marshall plan. It was to aid Europe
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It divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany
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is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
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McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. Many actors lives were ruined and inclusively had to leave the country.
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It 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 countries around would follow in a domino effect.
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It was all about living in the nice suburbs and the Baby boom. People wanted to have a family and live the american dream after coming home from war.
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He discovered the first polio vaccine
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A couple who was accused of selling nuclear secrets and turning against our country, although treason could not be charged because the United States was not at war with the Soviet Union.
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He was the 34th president He managed the 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.
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Originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from a combination of African-American genres such as blues, boogie-woogie, jump blues, jazz, etc.
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He was an american businessman and was the founder of Mcdonald's which is currently one of the most successful fast food operations in the world.
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It was a stereotype in the 1950s-960s to characterize the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering.
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The Space Race was a competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the US to see who was better.
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From that position, Johnson chaired two high-profile investigations: of military preparedness during the Korean War and of the U.S. space program following the Soviet launch of Sputnik.
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Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom approximately between the years 1946 and 1964.
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Abbie Hoffman, American was political activist and founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies), was known for his successful media events.
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It was a 13-day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. It was close to being a WW3
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Was the 35th president of the united states and was assassinated in Dallas Texas on november 22 1963. He also solved the cuban missile crisis, which was an inch away from becoming WW3
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Congress passed this resolution to authorize president Johnson to take measures and promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
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It was a coordinated series of fierce attacks in more than 100 cities and towns in south vietnam.
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A United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions in combat near South Vietnam on May 2, 1968.
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Policy of Richard Nixon administration to the 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."
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Vietnam was happening in the 70s which was the start for peace and the anti war movements.
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This amendment gave teens the chance to vote at the age of 18 and could not be denied to vote either. This meant more participation and feedback from teens starting from the 70's
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Nixons acheivements were forging diplomatic ties with China and the Soviet Union, and withdrawing U.S. troops from an unpopular war in Vietnam.
