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Dwight D. Eisenhower
He became the 34th presidents of the United States. He was from Denison, Texas and was born on October 14, 1890. Also fought for the United States Army during World War 2 and served the Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. -
Ray Kroc
He was an American businessman in 1954 he built the most successful fast food operation in the world. He was born Oak Parl, Illionis on October 5th, 1902 and due on January 14, 1984 in San Diego, California. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
In the campaign of 1960, Lyndon was selected Vice President as John F. Kennedy's running mate. Whenever kennedy was assassinated, Lyndon became the 36th president of The United States.He had a vision to build "A Great Society" for the American people. -
Mccathyism
The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare. -
Richard Nixon
He was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 and became the only U.S. Representative and Senator from California. Nixon was also born Yorba Linda, California. He also graduated from Duke University School of Law. -
Jonas Aalk
He was the first to discovered polio vaccine. He was a medical researcher and virologist. A great saying of him was, "There is hope in dreams, imaginationm and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality". -
Anti-war Movement
A social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed confluct, uncoditional of a maybe existing just cause. The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts. -
Betty Friedan
She was an American writer, activist and feminist. The national strike was successful beyond expectations in broadening the feminist movemnt. Friedan was also strong feminist to establish the National Women's Political. -
Roy Benavidez
He was a member of The United States Army Special Forces. He was also born near Cuero, texas. His father was Mexican and his mom was in India. Whene he was 2 yrs old, he lost his father, he passed away. -
Abbie Hoffman
He became a political and social activist anarchist who also co founded the Youth of International Party. He did in April 13, 1989. He received his phychology degree from the Univesity of Brandeis and The University of Calirfornia, Berkeley. -
House Un-American Activities Committee
It was originally created in 1938 in order to uncover cititzens with Nazi ties inside the United States, but it concentrated its efforts instead on investigating possible Communist Party. In 1969 the house changed the committee name to "House Committee on Internal Security." -
G.I. Bill
A law that is provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War2. Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed force. -
Truman doctrine
He stablished that the United States would provide political and military and econmic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Baby boom generation
People who were born during the demographic post. This includes people who are between 52 and 70 years old in 2016. According to the U.S Census Bureau, the term baby boomer is also achieve borad consensus of a precise date defintion, even within a given territory. -
Iron Curtain
Errected by the Soviet Union after World War 2 to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central Euopean allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. The term Iron Curtain had been in occasional and varied use as a metaphor since the 19th century, but it came to prominence only after it was used by the former British. -
Cold War
It was political and military tension after World War 2 between powers in the Western Block and powers in the Eastern Bloc. Historians do not fully agree on the dates. The United States and the Soviet Union lasted for much of the second half od the 20th century resulted in mutual suspicions. -
marshall plan
American initiative to aid Western Euope, in which the United States gave $14 billion. In economic support to help Western European economies after the end of World War. The Marshall Plan intended to rebuld the econmoies and spirits of Western Europe. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The organization consittues a system of collective defence wherby its memeber states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any extermal party. NATO was little more than a political associated until the Korean. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, the U.S, British and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. It was clear that Soviet blockade of West Berlin had falied. It had not persuaded West Berliners to reject their allies in the West. -
1950s prosperity
During 1950 it was easy to see what churchill meant. The United Stated was the world's strongest military power. Its economy was booming, and the fruits of this prosperity. -
1950's Culture
The Eisenhower era was a tome of both squeaky clean Disneyland and unkempt, edy beatniks. It was a time when the defiantly sexual Elvis cimpeted with insufferably bland Perry Como. During the fifties, mass culture began to dominate in the United States. THis accounted for much of the blandness that critics lamented. -
Rock and Roll
It went from a fusion of electric blues to country and gospel music. The pop charts are dominated by the remnats of the big band era including vocalists such as Doris Day, Frankie Lane, Rosemeary Clooney and Nat King Cole. -
Korean War
The Korean War began whe some 75,000 soldiers from te North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro- Western Republic. -
Rosenberg Trial
The trial began in New Yotk Southern District fedreal court. Judge Irving Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. -
Domino Theory
It had a communist victory in one nation that would quickly lead to a chain reaction of cumminist takeovers in neighboring states. In Southeast of Asia, the US governmnet used the domino theory to justify its suppost of a non communist regime in South Vietnam. -
Beatniks
It was a media stereotype prevalent throughtout the 1950s to mid 1960s. A peron who participated in a social movement of the 1950s and early 1960s which stressed artistic self-expression and the rejection of the mores of conventional society. -
Vietnman War
It was a long, costlty armed conflict that pitted the communost regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies that are known as the Viet Cong. The U.S forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two yars later. -
Interstate highway act
The addition of the term "Defense"in the Act's title was for two reasons. The money was handled in a Highway trust fund that paid 90 percent of highway construction costs with the states required to pay the remaining 10 percent. -
Bay of Pigs
Intented to provoke popularity for an uprising against Fidel Castro, who had overthrown American backe dictaror. As the communist nature of Fidel Castro -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13 day political and military standoff in October 1962. Many people feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war. -
Vietnamization
War through a program that is expand, equid and train South Vietnam force to assign to them. Increasing combat role. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions
This basically authorized the President Johnson to take any measures that he believed were necessary to retakiate and to basically promote the maintenace of international peace nad security. -
Great Society
It was set of domestic programs in the United Stated and was launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson. TH emain goals for it was to elimate the poverty and racial injustice. -
Miranda V. Arizona
Ernesto Miranda was arrested in his house and brought to the police station where he was questioned bu police officers in conncection with a kidnapping and rape. The jury found Miranda guilty. The supreme court of Arizona affirmed and held that Miranda guilty. -
Tet Offensive 1968
The coordinated series of fierce will attack on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. General Vo Nguyen Giap was the leader of the communist People's Army of Vietnam. -
Space Race(Sputnik and Moon landings)
United States and the communist Soviet Union were against each other. It begin in the late 1950s, space would become another dramatic areana for this competition. -
The Rust Belt and Sun Belt
The Rust Belt area is aregino that consists of aread in the Midwestern and Northeaster United States. The areas are particularly defined by cities that have depleted pouplulations and economies by 1970. The sun belt is being economically boosted by chemical, electronic, agricultureal, aerospace, and oil industries. As well as weapons productions for military advancemtn projects. -
26th Amendmnet
The right of citizens of the United Stated, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. -
John F. Kennedy
He wa the 35th President of The United States. He was assassinated in Dallas Tx in November 1963. A fun fact about him was that he used 16 pens to sign the Limited Test Ban Treat in September 24,1963. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. After the destruction of the Second World War, the nations of Europe stuggled to rebuild the econmies and ensure their security. -
Containment Policy
A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. -
War Powers Act
The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevel and it was into law on December 18,1941. The War Powers Resolution is sometimes referred to as the War Powers Act.
