Cold War/ Vietnam Key Terms

G.I. Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act 1944)

Jun 22, 1944

Domino Theory

Sep 5, 1945

Iron Curtain

Mar 5, 1946

Churchill delivers speech

Baby Boom Generation

Dec 5, 1946

Cold War

Sep 8, 1947

russian cominform

Levittown

Dec 4, 1947

Certainly for the inhabitants of Levittown, more disturbing complaints came from their Long Island neighbors. Wealthy Gold Coast residents were concerned with property values and a decline in prestige with the arrival of the urban working class in their “boxy little” houses. An editorial in a local news-paper, the Island Trees Tribune, noted this as early as Decemb

Marshall Plan

Jun 3, 1948

Berlin Airlift

Jun 26, 1948

Truman Doctrine

Jul 12, 1948

Containment Policy

Jul 16, 1948

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Aug 8, 1948

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Apr 4, 1949

signed

Rust Belt vs Sun Belt

Jan 1, 1950

McCarthyism

Feb 9, 1950

1950's Prosperity

Apr 19, 1950

Rosenberg Trial

Aug 17, 1950

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jan 20, 1953

Rock n' Roll

Oct 16, 1954

Elvis’ first appearance on the Louisiana Hayride, a popular country radio show out of Shreveport LA.

Jonas Salk

Apr 12, 1955

News of his vaccines' success was made public.

Interstate Highway Act

Jun 29, 1956

Sputnik

Oct 4, 1957

A Russian missile launched Sputnik into space and it then became the first man made object in space as well as the world's first artificial satellite. Sputnik's launch was an unpleasant surprise to Americans. The next year the U.S. launched Explorer I, which was designed by the U.S. Army.

Beatniks

Nov 8, 1958

Kerouac explained what he meant by "beat" at a Brandeis Forum, "Is There A Beat Generation?", on November 8, 1958, at New York's Hunter College Playhouse.

Vietnam War

Dec 12, 1960

John F. Kennedy

Jan 20, 1961

Bay of Pigs

Apr 17, 1961

Space Race

May 5, 1961

Alan Shepard became the first american in space, but not orbit. Later that may president JFK made a bold claim that the US would land a man on the moon before the end of the decade.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 16, 1962

Betty Friedan

Feb 19, 1963

The Feminine Mystique was released

Lyndon B. Johnson

Nov 22, 1963

Great Society

May 7, 1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Aug 10, 1964

Tet Offensive 1968

Jan 31, 1968

Anti-War Movement

Feb 18, 1968

Richard Nixon

Jan 20, 1969

Moon Landing

Jul 20, 1969

Vietnamization

Nov 3, 1969

Nixon's Speech

26th Amendment

Mar 8, 1971

War Powers Act

Nov 7, 1973

Ray Kroc

Apr 9, 1974