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The Un-American Activities Comimitte or HUAC was to investigate shady or suspicious activity on the part of private citizens.
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Rock and roll is a genre of popular music
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The Wars Powers act was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II.
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The G.I. Bill was a law signed by Roosevelt that provided benefits for WWII veterans such as low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans for businesses, cash payments of tuition,living expenses to attend universities and more.
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The Iron Curtain formed the 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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Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to cope with their fear of communism.
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Baby boomers are people born during post World War II baby boom between 1946 and 1964.
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The Truman Doctrine 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 tension regarding political and military conundrums after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc.
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The Marshall Plan was an plan to assist Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
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The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO, was a treaty for the North Atlantic. It is also called The North Atlantic Alliance.
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Beatniks was a media stereotype openly embraced throughout the 1950s to the1960s that presented aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s.
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Raymond Kroc was an American businessman and philanthropist. He joined McDonald's in 1954 it became the most sucessful restaruant in the world. Raymond Kroc participated in the World War as a Red Cross ambulance driver. He founded Hamburger University where you can earn a certificate for "hamburgerology" with a minor in french fries
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While other parts of the world struggled to rebuild from the devastation of World War II, citizens of the United States saw their standard of living surpass what previous generations had only dreamed about.
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Culture differentiated depending on the time period. For instance, the American dream mindset was reimagined in 1950, while 1980s has a rebellious-type mindset for adolecents and young people alike. This changed their culture overtime.
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McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without any evidence.
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The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.
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The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. They were accused of selling nuclear secrets to Russia.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the thirty-fourth President of the United States for an eight-year term. He proposed the "Open Skies" proposal, which allow U.S. and Soviet flights to guard against nuclear attacks.
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The Domino Theory was a speculation that if Vietnam turn into a Communist region, then others would soon follow.
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The Vietnam War was a war during the Cold era that took place in Vietnam from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975.
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The Interstate Highway Act of 1956 was enacted on June 29, 1956 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.
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The Space Race was a competition between Russia and The United States of America in striving to surpass each other in space travel. technology, and research.
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John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic president in office from January 1961 to November 1963. He founded the Kennedy
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed invasion of Cuba undertaken by the military and a CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union for thirteen days concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba.
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Betty Friedan was an American activist, writer, and feminist. She wrote the book "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963.
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The Anti-War Movement was a social movement for people who were against the Vietnam War. The term can also refer to pacifism.
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Lyndon B. Johnson was the 34th president after John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He proceeded the Great Society Program. He also contributed in space expedition.
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Abbie Hoffman was an American political and anarchist who founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") with Dana Beal, Paul Krassner, Jerry Rubin, and David Dellinger.
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The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, or the USS Maddox incident, was a confrontation between The United States of America and North Vietnam.
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Miranda v. Arizona was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court.
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The Tet Offensive was launched in 1968 against the South Vietnam and was the largest military campaigns for the Vietnam War.
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Roy Benavides was a member of the United States Army's Special Forces. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for combating and being strategic in South Vietnam in 1968.
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Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States from Yorba Linda, California in 1969 to 1974.
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Vietnamization was accidentally established by Richard Nixon during a National Security Council which was a policy to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War by training South Vietnam forces.
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"Old enough to fight, old enough to vote".
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The Rust Belt is a term for the region straddling the upper Northeastern United States. People went to the Rust Belt for employment. The Sun Belt is in the southern US, many businesses and population moved into those states.
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Jonas Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist from the New York University School of Medicine. He discovered and created the first successful polio vaccine. On May 6, 1985, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed that day to be "Jonas Salk Day".
