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Betty Friedan
was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States -
jonas salk
was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines -
House Un-American Activities Committee
was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. -
Rock n Roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from African American musical styles such as gospel, -
G.I Bill(Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, better known as the G.I. Bill, in order to help soldiers secure stability as they returned to civilian life. -
Iron curtain
the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. -
Baby Boom Generation
are those people born worldwide between 1946 and 1964, the time frame most commonly used to define them. -
Containment Policy
Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
Cold War
as a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc -
Truman Doctrine
was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion -
Berlin Airlift
was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic -
Korean War
when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border -
Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
was characterized by the migration of hundreds of thousands of Americans from the Northern and Midwestern Rust Belt to the Southern Sun Belt. -
McCarthyism
is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence -
Levittown
is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York on Long Island -
1950's Prosperity
Inflation, which had wreaked havoc on the economy immediately after World War II, was minimal, in part because of Eisenhower's persisten -
Beatniks
was a media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950 -
Rosenberg Trail
United States citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted and executed by the United States government -
Domino Theory
the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall. -
Vietnam war
also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam -
Interstate Highway Act
The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. It also allocated $26 billion to pay for them. -
Space Race
refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight capability -
Sputnik
was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas -
Bay Of Pigs
In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Dwright D.Eisenhower
was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 -
John F. Kennedy
commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Lyndon B. Johnson
often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served -
Gulf of Tokin Resolution
was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Great Society
as a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson -
Anti-War Movement
s 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 -
Tet Offensive
officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 by North Vietnam and the NLF, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War -
vietnamization
the war was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War -
Moon Landing
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. -
Richard Nixion
was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974 -
War Powers Act
is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
Ray Kroc
was an American businessman. He joined the California company McDonald's in 1954, just a few months after the McDonald brothers had branched out from their original -
26th Amendment
the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old
