Cold War/Vietnam

  • Ray Kroc

    Ray Kroc
    He joined the California company McDonald's in 1954, just a few months after the McDonald brothers had branched out from their original 1940
  • Lyndon B. Jhonson

    Lyndon B. Jhonson
    Lyndon Baines 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.
  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon
    Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.
  • John F. Kennedy

    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.
  • betty friedan

    betty friedan
    Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.
  • HUAC

    HUAC
    He House Un-American Activities Committee was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.
  • Rock n' roll

    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, jump blues, jazz.
  • G.I. Bill (servicemen's Readjustment act 1944)

    G.I. Bill (servicemen's Readjustment act 1944)
    The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans.
  • Baby Boom generation

    Baby Boom generation
    A temporary marked increase in the birth rate, especially the one following World War II.
  • Cold War

    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.
  • Iron Curtain

    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.
  • Containment Policy

    Containment Policy
    Containment is a geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. It is best known as a Cold War foreign policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S.Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey.
  • Marshall plan

    Marshall plan
    The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    The Berlin Blockade 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
  • NATO

    NATO
    The 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 Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.
  • McCarthyism

    McCarthyism
    McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
  • 1950s Prosperity

    1950s Prosperity
    The state of being prosperous
  • Rust Belt vs Sun Belt

    Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
    The post-war period, from the 1950s through the 1980s, was characterized by the migration of hundreds of thousands of Americans from the Northern and Midwestern Rust Belt to the Southern Sun Belt
  • Levittown

    Levittown
    Levittown, formerly Island Trees, is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York on Long Island. It is located halfway between the villages of Hempstead and Farmingdale.
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border.
  • Dwight D Eisenhower

    Dwight D Eisenhower
    Dwight David Ike Eisenhower was an American Army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961
  • Rosenburg Trial

    Rosenburg Trial
    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. They were accused of transmitting nuclear weapon designs to the Soviet Union; at that time the United States was the only country with nuclear weapons.
  • Domino Theory

    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

    Vietnam war
    The 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, Laos, and Cambodia
  • Interstate highway act

    Interstate highway act
    The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.
  • Space Race

    Space Race
    The 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.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American.
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
    The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
  • Anti-War movement

    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, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts. Many activists distinguish.
  • Great Society

    Great Society
    The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
  • Tet offensive 1968

    Tet offensive 1968
    The Tet Offensive, or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 by North Vietnam and NLF, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January.
  • Moon landing

    Moon landing
    A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959.
  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization
    In the Vietnam War the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
  • 26th amendment

    26th amendment
    The 26th Amendment to 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 8 years old.
  • War Powers Act

    War Powers Act
    The War Powers Resolution also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the 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.