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HUAC
The HUAC was used to investigate alleged disloyalty on the part of citizens, public employees, and those anyone else that may have done something that would be against the USA -
G.I. Bill
Providing education and job training for returning veterans. This was very important after world war 2 and had a pretty big effect on the vietnam war. -
Cold War
The Cold War wasnt even a war. It was nuclear tension between the USA and the USSR. It lasted till about 1991. -
Iron Curtain
This was the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War 2 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Berlin Airlift
U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. The also controlled all of the food and supplies that were shipped into Germany. -
Baby Boom Generation
After World War 2 all of the men that were coming home from the battles wanted to start a family and lie low. There were many babies born because of this. -
Truman Doctrine
This doctrine was an American foreign policy that was made to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. It was made by Truman. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
This is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
McCarthyism
The practice of making accusations or treason without proper evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism." -
Beatniks
Beatnik was a media stereotype that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. -
Domino Theory
The Theory that if one country falls to communism then all the ones around it will also fall, just like a line of dominos. -
1950s prosperity
There was a rise in the production of goods and also houses in the suberbs. There was also an increase in airplanes and cars. -
1950/1960/1970/1980
1950- Not alot of nuclear scare left
1960-Hippies were expanding to all parts of america
1970-Drugs were very popular and teens were mostly hippies
1980-Media went crazy and so did fashion -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion to them. -
Korean War
This was a war that was faught between North and South Korea. It was a Civil war between the two places and one was communistic and the other was democratic. -
Containment Policy
A couple was said to have sold nuke plans to the Russians. But treasan charges could not be pressed becaus the united states was not at war. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was a medical reasercher and also an airologist. He is the guy responsible for coming up with the first effective cure for polio -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was the 34th president of the United States of America. He was also a very important general in world war 2. He played a very important role in the Cold war and also the Vietnam war. -
Ray Kroc
He was an American businessman and philanthropist. He joined McDonald's in 1954 and helped them grow into one of the most successful fast food companies in the world. -
Vietnam war
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. -
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
This was the race between many countries to see who could go to space first. The moonlanding and Sputnik were very important achivments in this time period. -
Anti-War Movement
Everyone was against war and wanted peace. Hippies played a key role in this movement. There were many sit-ins and teach-ins during this movement on school grounds. -
John F. Kennedy
John was the 35th president of the United States of America. He was one of the only presidents to be assassinated, in 1963. He was a very important president and played a key role in the Cold War. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
He was the 36th President of the United States of America. He also served as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy, from 1961 to 1963 -
Bay of Pigs
This was an unsuccesful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles. The US supported this because we wanted Cuba. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union because of Soviet missiles that were deployed in Cuba. This is one of the things that almost caused World War 3. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This was a bill that authorized, Johnson (Who was President at the time) to take any measures that were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security during the Vietnam war. -
Miranda V. Arizona
Miranda was eventually convicted claiming his confession was unconstitutional. In the Supreme Court case the court was supposed to decide whether or not law enforcement people must inform a defendant of his or her rights prior to investigation. Thus the term Miranda rights -
Abbie Hoffman
He was an American political and social activist. He was also an anarchist who co-founded the Youth International Party. This party believed in free speech and was also anti-war. -
Tet Offensive
It was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam Warby forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces. This was a very important battle in the Vietnam War and was also a very dramatic turning point. -
Roy Benavidez
He was a member of the United States Army Special Forces. He also a retired United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor. He got this award because of his heroic actions in many battles of the Vietnam War. -
Richard Nixon
He was the 37th President of the United States of America. He became the only U.S. president to resign from the office. He resigned because he would have been impeached either way. -
Betty Friedan
She was an American writer, activist, and feminist. She was a very popular leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique was very popular and was also said to have caused the womens rights movement. -
26th Amendment
"Amendment XXVI gives young adults between the age of eighteen and twenty-one the right to vote. The measure is another in a line of constitutional changes that expanded the right to vote to more citizens. At the time of the ratification of the Constitution in 1788, most states limited voting to white, male citizens who were over the age of 21." -
Vietnamization
A policy to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops." -
Rust Belt and Sun Belt
This was the migration of people from the slumps of Chicago and Detroit to more sunny and lively places like Texas and California.