Cold War / Vietnam

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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe.
  • Ray Kroc

    Ray Kroc

    American businessman and philanthropist. Helped Mcdonalds boom
  • Lyndon B Johnson

    Lyndon B Johnson

    The 36th President of the United States
  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon

    37th President of the United States
  • Jonas salk

    Jonas salk

    American medical researcher and virologist. , discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy

    35th President of the United States
  • Betty Friedan

    Betty Friedan

    American writer, activist, and feminist.
  • Roy Benavidez

    Roy Benavidez

    member of the United States Army Special Forces. recieved the medal of honor
  • Abbie Hoffman

    Abbie Hoffman

    American political and social activist and anarchist
  • house un-american activities committee

    house un-american activities committee

    created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations.
  • McCarthyism

    McCarthyism

    the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence
  • war power act

    war power act

    an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II.
  • GI Bill

    GI Bill

    A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II.
  • baby boom

    baby boom

    when the number of annual births exceeded 2 per 100 women
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    A military operation the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany
  • NATO

    NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization an intergovernmental military alliance.
  • 1950s prosperity

    1950s prosperity

    Many new cars as well as suburbs started to boom
  • Beatniks

    Beatniks

    media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s.
  • containment policy

    containment policy

    United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
  • Rock n' Roll

    Rock n' Roll

    popular music with black rhythm and blues and white country music
  • 1950s culture

    1950s culture

    many things such as tv in the living room and the start of rock n roll
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South,
  • anti war movement

    anti war movement

    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.
  • Rosenberg Trials

    Rosenberg Trials

    A trial to convict a couple who were caught giving nuclear secrets to other countries
  • Federal Aid Highway Act

    Federal Aid Highway Act

    an act that alloweed 41,000 miles of highway to be built in 10 years
  • Space race

    Space race

    A 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.
  • 1960s cuture

    1960s cuture

    many new things like the first ever super computer was introduced and the beatles were a huge hit
  • Domino Theory

    Domino Theory

    A theory that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow
  • bay of pigs

    bay of pigs

    a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba.
  • Great Society

    Great Society

    set of domestic programs in the United States
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    permission for President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
  • Miranda v. Arizona

    Miranda v. Arizona

    The Miranda rights. Meaning the cop has to share the rights you are given before arrest.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    American initiative to aid Western Europe
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War
  • 1970s

    1970s

    things such as the walkman and floppy diss were introduced in the 70s. star wars was a Huge hit and still is.
  • 26th amendment

    26th amendment

    made the legal age to vote 18
  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization

    Was a policy President Nixon made to reduce US troops and train Vietnam southern troops
  • vietnam war

    vietnam war

    also known as the 2nd indochina war or Resistance War Against America
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain

    imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II to the cold war
  • 1980s

    1980s

    ronald reagan was elected president at this time. VHS came out as did boomboxes. artist like madona and Michela jackson all were hits
  • Cold war

    Cold war

    was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc.
  • rust an sun belt

    rust an sun belt

    Rust Belt - is a term for the region straddling the upper Northeastern United States
    Sun belt - a strip of territory receiving a high amount of sunshine