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Ray Kroc
He joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice -
Jonas Salk
He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines -
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
Betty Friedan
A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second -
House Un-American Activities Committee
the House Committee on Un-American Activities was established as a special investigating committee, reorganized from its previous incarnations as the Fish Committee and the McCormack-Dickstein Committee, to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens -
G.I. Bill
Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans. -
Iron Curtain
The notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. -
Containment Policy
The word containment is associated most strongly with the policies of United States President Harry Truman (1945–53), including the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a mutual defense pact. -
Baby Boom Generation
Baby boomers are the demographic group born during the post–World War II baby boom, approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. -
Marshall Plan
It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
Levittown
Levittown, formerly Island Trees, is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead in Long Island, in Nassau County, New York. -
McCarthyism
The practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism. -
1950's Prosperity
Fueled by the GI bill, increased military spending and an attitude of optimism and hope, the 1950s were an era of growing families, developing neighborhoods and a burgeoning consumerism. -
Rosenberg Trail
Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. -
Korean War
The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. -
Domino Theory
Eisenhower described the theory during an April 7, 1954, news conference, when referring to communism in Indochina: Finally, you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia -
Rock n' Roll
The Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series is a collection of road running events owned and operated by Competitor Group, Inc. -
Interstate Highway Act
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act Public Law 84-627. -
Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for supremacy in spaceflight capability. -
Sputnik
It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. -
Beatniks
Beatnik was a media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile -
Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Anti-war movement
An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of 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 Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and their allies. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American politician and soldier who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. -
Moon Landing
Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC -
Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
Similar informal terms for regions of the United States could be the "Corn Belt" which consists of the Midwestern States full of corn. -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization of 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 -
26th Amendment
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. -
War Powers Act
The War Powers Resolution -also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act. 50 U.S.C. 1541–1548 it is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office.