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Raymond Albert Kroc was an American businessman. He joined McDonald's in 1955 and built the most successful fast food operation in the world.
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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
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Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974.
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Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist.
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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
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American Writer and Activist, and a feminist leading figure in women's movement.
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The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens.
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A federal law intended to check the president's power.
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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.
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Economy grew 37% inflation had wreaked havoc on the economy after World War II.
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The baby boomer generation makes up a substantial portion of the North American population.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection.
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In the Soviet Union they banned Rock n' roll because it gave the people the idea to break down communism.
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Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to stop spread of communism.
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The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951.
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Divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.
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The Rust Belt is a term for the region of the United States from the Great Lakes to the upper Midwest States.
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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.
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McCarthyism is a practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence
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Formerly Island Trees, is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead in Long Island, in Nassau County, New York.
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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.
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The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court.
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North Korea invaded South Korea, china went to aid south Korea and the Soviet Union gave some assistance.
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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.
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The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and known as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War.
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Enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.
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A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned missions.
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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.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare
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Was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 to 65.
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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
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Vietnamization of the war was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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The right of citizens of the United States who are eighteen years of age of older.
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The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR).
