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investigate Fascist and Communist activities in the United States but came into prominence
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Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944, this act, also known as the GI Bill, provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing.
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the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.
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massive increase in births following World War II. Baby boomers are those people born worldwide between 1946 and 1964, the time frame most commonly used to define them.
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A United States foreign policy doctrine adopted by the Harry S. Truman administration in 1947, operating on the principle that communist governments will eventually fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence.
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American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
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A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II.
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brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany
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intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy
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characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies. Rock and roll was an amalgam of black rhythm and blues and white country music,
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The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950s.
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Levittown is the name of seven large suburban housing developments
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a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation.
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between North Korea, aided by Communist China, and South Korea, aided by the United States and other United Nations members forming a United Nations armed force: truce signed July 27, 1953.
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a specialist in virology, Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis
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American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union
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he theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries
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Created the domino theory
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was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese
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Founder of McDonalds.
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National Interstate and Defense Highways Act
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the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration.
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the first satellite to be placed in orbit.
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is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause.
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sent military advisors and then troops into South Vietnam. After Kennedy's assassination
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A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba
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Democratic party political leader of the twentieth century, who was president
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joint resolution that the United States Congress passed in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.
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A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War. Early in 1968, Vietnamese communist troops seized and briefly held some major cities at the time of the lunar new year
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was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States. Friedan signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to withhold tax payments as an act of protest against the Vietnam War.
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the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
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Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins—who lay in the couches of an Apollo spacecraft bolted atop a Saturn V launch vehicle, awaiting ignition of five clustered rocket engines to boost them toward the first lunar landing.
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President Nixon believed his Vietnamization strategy, which involved building up South Vietnam's armed forces and withdrawing U.S. troops, would prepare the South Vietnamese to act in their own defense against a North Vietnamese takeover and allow the United States to leave Vietnam with its honor intact.
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The right of citizens of the United States, 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.
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allows Congress to limit the President's use of military forces. It states that the President must tell Congress within 48 hours if he sends armed forces anywhere, and Congress must give approval for them to stay there for more than 90 days.
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deindustrialization, or economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once-powerful industrial sector.