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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the U.S. and also was appointed Army Chief of Staff on 1945.
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Ray Kroc became President of Mcdonalds on 1955 by selling his milkshake machines to the Mcdonald brothers.
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Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th President right after JFK was assasinated in 1963.
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Richard Nixon was the 37th President on January 20th 1969.
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Jonas Salk created the vaccine for Pollio on April 2nd, 1955.
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JFK was the 35th President of The United States from 1961 to the day of his assasination on 1963.
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Betty Friedan was a Women's Right's activist and co-founded the National Organization For Women.
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Roy Benavidez was a member of the United States Army Special Forces and retired United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor.
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Abbie Hoffman was an American Civil Rights Activist during the 60's.
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The War Powers Act of 1941, also known as the First War Powers Act, was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II.
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This bill benifited war veterans by providing coverage to thsoe who are disabled or unemployed.
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The Iron Curtain was the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
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Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom approximately between the years 1946 and 1964.
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The 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. Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but 1947–91 is common.
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The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War.
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The Marshall Plan is an American initiative to aid Western Europe after the World War.
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The United States sent over 2 million tons of supplies over the Berlin Wall to help out.
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Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
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McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
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The Beatniks were a band during the 1950's to mid 1960's.
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The Domino Theory was a theory during the 50's that if one country falls into communism the rest will eventually fall.
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The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North,.
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The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court they believed Rosenberg was selling information to the Russians.
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Rock N' Roll is a genre of music that become popular in the U.S. during the 1950's.
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The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act was introduced on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.
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Sputnik was launched on October 4th, 1957 but the U.S. first landed on the moon on June 2nd, 1966.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA.
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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 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized president Johnson to do whatever was neccesarry to keep peace in Southeast Asia.
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in the case between Miranda v. Arizona, Miranda was found guilty and senteced to 20-30 years.
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The Cuban Missle Crisis was a confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
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The Tet Offensive was the largest military campaigns in the Vietnam War.
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Vietnamization was the policy Nixon introduced that would end the U.S. involvment in Vietnam.
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The 26th amendment states that any 18 year old U.S. citizen could vote.
