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House Un-American Activities Committee
House Un-American Activities Committee was created in 1938. It investigated private and subversive citizens. -
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Rock n Roll
Rock n’ Roll is characterized by a heavy beat. Usually consists of the guitar, bass, and drums. It was a type of music to express one’s feelings. -
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Baby Boom Generation
The Baby Boom Generation was right after the war had ended and the soldiers came back home to their wives. -
Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
The Rust Belt is a term for the region of the United States from the Great Lakes to the Upper Midwest States. -
Containment Policy
A method the US used to prevent the spread of communism.A component of the cold war. -
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Cold War
A war over communism mainly fought by the US and the USSR. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a policy that was created to counter Soviet expansion during the Cold War. It came to light from a speech delivered by President Truman before a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947. -
North Atlantic Treaty Orginization
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several western Europe nations. It was made to provide protection from the Soviet Union. -
Marshall Plan
It was the american initiation to aide the rebuilding of western Europe. America gave over several billion dollars to build the western Europe Government. -
Berlin Airlift
In the end of WWII the United States British and Soviet Union military forced separated and engaged Germany. This gave the hostages hope. -
Levittown
Levittown was a community made by Abraham Levitt and his two sons, William Levitt and Alfred Levitt. Levittown was for the thousands of men and women that came back from WWII and had nowhere to go or stay. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain is the political military and ideological barrier built by the Soviet Union after WWII to close off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other non communist areas. -
Beatniks
Beatniks was a media stereotype in the 50s and it spread about the Beat Generations. -
McCarthyism
Making accusations of treason without any evidence. Started being called this during the cold war. -
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1950's Prosperity
The US had the best military power, new inventions, and availability of productions.The US was on top of the world in the 1950's. -
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Space Race
The Space Race was a competition between nations concerning about achievements in space exploration. The main competitors were the US and the USSR. -
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Korean War
War between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea was communist and sided with Russia and China. South Korea sided with the United States. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States. Eisenhower was a Republican and he served two presidential terms. Eisenhower also commanded the D-Day invasion. -
Rosenburg Trials
This was a court case about Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg. Julius and Ethel were an american couple who died in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union. -
Domino Theory
Eisenhower made a giant speech that had it in it. It means that what one country follows (mainly considered to be government type) the others would follow. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk created the vaccine for polio.His vaccine worked and it led to everyone getting the vaccine. -
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was an american entrepreneur. He is best known for helping make McDonald’s. He built several of the most successful food industries. -
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Vietnam War
This was a Cold War conflict, pitting the United States and the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the communist north Vietnamese, the Viet Minh. -
Interstate Highway Act
The bill that Eisenhower signed to make it into a law and to start building highways. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the world’s first artificial satellite. It was the size of a beach ball and weighed 183.9 pounds. -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. Kennedy had tripled the amount of American economic and military aid to the South Vietnamese. -
Anti-War Movement
A social movement usually in opposition to the particular nation’s decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a “maybe existing” cause. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
This was the CIA’s failure of attempting to invade Cuba. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
USSR missiles were hid in Cuba and the United States got proof of the missiles. If the missiles were set off, it would have killed a lot of the United States population. -
Betty Friedan
Friedan was a writer, activist, and a strong feminist. She wrote a book about The feminine Mystique. Betty Friedan broke new grounds by writing about the idea of women finding other enjoyment outside of their traditional jobs. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson was the 36th President of the United States. He inherited the escalating crisis Vietnam. Johnson steadily increased the number of US troops deployed to Vietnam, hoping to ensure a US victory before withdrawing forces. -
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Great Society
Johnson’s goal was to turn the nation into a great society by opening up opportunities and improving the quality of life for everyone. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joint resolution that the US Congress passed. -
Tet Offensive
Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. The war launched on January 30, 1968. -
Vietnamization
The war was a policy of Richard Nixon administration to end United States involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Moon Landing
The spaceship, Apollo 11, was the first spaceflight to land on the moon safely with two American astronauts. -
26th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US, or by any State on account of age. -
Richard Nixon
Was born in 1913 become president 1969. He pursued a plan he called “Vietnamization,” where the US would withdraw from the war, in Vietnam. -
War Powers Act
Designed to check the presidents power to commit armed conflict without consent of US congress.
