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Ray Kroc
Raymond Albert Kroc was an American businessman. He joined McDonald's in 1955 and built the most successful fast food operation in the world. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 -
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. -
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" 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 until his assassination in November 1963 -
1950's Prosperity
American Writer and Activist, and a feminist leading figure in women's movement. -
HUAC
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens. -
War powers Act
A federal law intended to check the president's power. -
G.I Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act 1944)
While World War II was still being fought, the Department of Labor estimated that, after the war, 15 million men and women who had been serving in the armed services would be unemployed. -
1950's Prosperity
Economy grew 37% inflation had wreaked havoc on the economy after World War II. -
Baby Boom Generation
The baby boomer generation makes up a substantial portion of the North American population. -
Anti-War Movement
An anti-war movement also antiwar is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict. -
Iron Curtain
The notional barrier separating former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in Eastern Europe in 1989. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. -
Truman Doctrine
The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. -
Rock n Roll
In the Soviet Union they banned Rock n' roll because it gave the people the idea to break down communism. -
Containment Policy
Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to stop spread of communism. -
marshall plan
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. -
Berlin Airlift
Divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
The Rust Belt is a term for the region of the United States from the Great Lakes to the upper Midwest States. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is a practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence -
Levittown
Formerly Island Trees, is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead in Long Island, in Nassau County, New York. -
Beatniks
Beatnik 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 1950s. -
Rosenberg Trial
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. -
Korean War
North Korea invaded South Korea, china went to aid south Korea and the Soviet Union gave some assistance. -
Domino Theory
The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of dominoes to fall. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and known as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War. -
Interstate Highway Act
Enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
Moon Landing
A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned missions. -
Bay Of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare -
Gulf Of Tonkin 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
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 to 65. -
Tet Offensive 1968
Launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization of the war was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. -
26th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States who are eighteen years of age of older. -
Space Race
The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR).
