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Containment Policy
Policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea and Vietnam -
Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea Invaded South Korea. The United Nations with the United States as the principal force came to the aid of South Korea. -
McCarthyism
The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
Rock n' Roll
Marathon Series is the World's Largest Running Series with more than 500000 people talking part in 30 global cities each year. -
War Powers Act
It states that the President must tell Congress within 48 hours if he sends armed forces anywhere and Congress must give approval for them to stay there for more than 90 days. -
Domino Theory
A theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism and then the surrounding countries would. -
Berlin Airlift
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany and which at that time surrounded West Berlin. -
Interstate Highway Act
Was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. -
Sputnik
Each of Series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit. -
Jonas Salk
Was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7,1964 in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Vietnamization
The war was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U>S involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to expand, equip and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role. -
Vietnam War
The communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
Rosenberg Trail
American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union. Some have argued that the Rosenbergs were innocent victims of McCarthy. -
26th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of 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. -
Space Race
The space race refers to the 20th-century competition between two cold war. The Americans were called astronauts meaning star sailors and as developments in space research could easily be transferred to military research. -
1950's Prosperity
The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950's inflation, which had wreaked havoc on the economy immediately after World War II, was minimal, in part because of Eisenhower's persistent efforts to balance the federal budget. -
Betty Friedan
A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminism in the 20th century. -
Tet Offensive 1968
The largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, 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. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower