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House Un-American Activities Committee (HAUC)
HAUC was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. -
G.I. Bill
This bill is also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act 1944. G.I bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans. -
Iron Curtain
This was popularized by a 1946 Churchill speech. It is a metaphor for the divide between western Europe and the Soviet Bloc. Stalin called the speech a "call to war" -
Baby Boom Generation
Baby boomers are the group of people born during the post–World War II baby boom, approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. -
Containment Policy
This was the U.S response to the spread of communism to Eastern Europe, China, Korea and Vietnam. The U.S agreed to give aid to all non-communist -
Cold War
The Cold War was a condition of geopolitical pressure after World War II between forces in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. -
Levittown
In this town they made 36 houses a day. This neighborhood was perfect for white couples, black couples weren't allowed in the environment. Every one had the same thing, they didn't want anything or anyone to be "out the norm." -
Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine was created to contain communism. Truman announced he would give economic aid to Greece and Italy. Truman Doctrine extended to anywhere aid was given to support a non-communist government. -
Marshall Plan
Created when Western Europe struggled o revive after the war, this is also how millions of refugee camps were created. Marshall's purpose of the doctrine was to purpose aid plans to all European nations to rebuild. -
Berlin Airlift
Toward the end of the Second World War, U.S, British, and soviet military powers isolated and involved Germany. Likewise, isolated into occupation zones, Berlin was situated far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
NATO is a formal organization together between the domains of North American and Europe. From its initiation, its principle reason for existing was to guard each other from the likelihood of comrade Soviet Union taking control of their country. -
1950's Prosperity
The Decade of Prosperity. The economy general developed by 37% amid the 1950s. Inflation had wreaked devastation on the economy promptly after World War II, was negligible, partially as a result of Eisenhower's industrious endeavors to adjust the government spending plan. -
Beatniks
A young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation -
Rock N' Roll
This was started by Elvis Presley. This music brought women out of their social norms. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is making accusations of subversion or treason without the proper regard for evidence. This started from the fear of the spread of communism, it also costed many people their jobs and sometimes lives. McCarthyism is named after Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph R McCarthy because he accused public officials and individuals with little or no evidence. -
Korean War
The Korean War started when North Korea attacked South Korea. The United Nations, with the help of the United States, came to help South Korea. China had helped North Korea and so did the Soviet Union. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American politician and Army general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. -
Rosenberg Trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were accused of espionage for passing secrets to soviets during and after WW2. Julius and his wife were sentenced to death and were executed in 1953. -
Ray Kroc
Raymond Albert Kroc was an American businessman. He joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. -
Domino Theory
The Domino Theory was created based off the thought that if one country in the region was communist then the other would follow in a domino effect and become communists too. The Domino Theory was brought up by President Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Jonas Salk
Jonas was a medical researcher and virologist. Salk came up with the vaccine for polio. One of the victims of polio was our very own former president Franklin D. Roosevelt. April 12, 1955, Salk was hailed as a "miracle worker" and the day almost became a national holiday. -
Vietnam War
Vietnam War was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954. -
Interstate Highway Act
The Interstate Highway Act was created because of construction. The act authorized construction on a 41,000 mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
He was the US president who sent soldiers to Vietnam because his goal was to stop the spread of communism. He also helped with the programs to stop poverty during the cold war. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the principal simulated Earth satellite. The Soviet Union propelled it into a curved low Earth circle on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm measurement cleaned metal circle, with four outside radio antennas to transmit radio pulses. -
Space Race
The space race was a race between the U.S and Soviet Union for spaceflight capability. The Soviet Union beat the US to this, with the October 4, 1957 orbiting of Sputnik 1 and they also beat them with the first person in space too. -
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, normally alluded to by his initials JFK, was an American legislator who filled in as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his death in November 1963 by being assassinated. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was the 13 day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union. The US saw pictures of missiles and the Soviet Union denied them being there. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Anti-War Movement
Individual acts of protest such as: burning of draft cards, self-immolation, and anti-war entertainment. There were group protests at: government and associated buildings, draft boards, weapons manufacturers, March on the pentagon, and "teach-ins" and "sit ins" on college campuses. The protests did little to change public opinion about the war. In fact, it brought the war closer into the public eye. -
The Great Society
The Great Society was a list of programs created by president Lyndon Johnson in 1964-65. The program's main goals were to help decrease poverty rates and eliminate radical justice. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This was a joint resolution that the U.S congress passed in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. The resolution had the authority to take all necessary measure to repel any attacks on the U.S -
Tet Offensive
Tet: Vietnamese New Year. North Vietnam launched an offensive despite the cease-fire. North Vietnam actually lost militarily. There was destruction in South Vietnam. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American government official who filled in as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he turned into the main U.S. president to leave from office. -
Vietnamization
The war policy of the Richard Nixon Administration to take the U.S out of problems with vietnams through programs 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." -
Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969. -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American activist, writer, and feminist. her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century. In 1970, after stepping down as NOW's first president, Friedan organized the nationwide Women's Strike for Equality on August 26, the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote. -
26th amendment
The 26th Amendment states: The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote," was a common slogan used by proponents of lowering the voting age. The slogan traced its roots to World War II, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt lowered the military draft age to eighteen. -
War Powers Act
A federal law that was used to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the the consent of the U.S. congress. This is so that the president has to talk it over with congress before making decisions the could put the us in difficult situations, like war.
