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When the man landed on the moon.
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The House Committee on Un-American Activities was an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American propaganda.
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This is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940's
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Loans for vets to go to school, start a business, adjust to civilian life.
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Other vets come home, have a house, want to start a family
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An impenetrable barrier to communicate or inform, especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy.
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In the military it means the act of containing something or someone.
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An era of high tension and bitter rivalry known between the United States and the Soviet Union following the end of World War ll
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President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology.
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U.S. plan of giving money to European countries to help them rebuild after WWll.
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Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin.
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An international organization created in 1949 by the North atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
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Unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty
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The economy overall grew by 37%. Inflation had wrecked havoc on the economy immediately after WWll, was minimal, in part because of Eisenhower's persistent efforts to balance the federal budget.
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The migration of hundreds or thousands of Americans from the Northern and Midwestern Rust Belt to the Southern Sun Belt.
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A large suburban housing development created in the United States by William Levitt and his company Levitt and Sons. Built after WWll for returning veterans and their new families, the community offered attractive alternatives to cramped centra city locations and apartments.
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A young person in the 1950's and early 1960's belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation.
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New manager for franchising of McDonald's, took over eventually and turned it into international food chain
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The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (that the US helped) helped South Korea
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Supported the French against the communists in Vietnam by giving them money.
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The husband broke codes between Moscow and office for diplomats. The wife was accused for knowing these secrets and also involvement in this. The media used propaganda to make sure that the people's views were one way or another. They were proven guilty and executed.
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The political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
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Developed the first successful polio vaccine.
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Also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War against America or simply the American War. More than 3 million people were killed in the war and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians.
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A social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to star or carry on an armed conflict.Also can be the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts.
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A network of high speed roads built to make interstate travel faster and easier.
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A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.
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The first artificial satellite; launched by the soviets at 7:28 pm.
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Wrote about suburban housewives, investigated sense of woman's purpose, and gave name to the idealization of women's domestic roles.
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President during part of the cold war and especially during the superpower rivalry and the cuban missile crisis. He was the president who went on tv and told the public about the crisis and allowed the leader of the Soviet Union to withdraw their missiles.
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An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. An armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahia de Cochinos on the South Coast of Cuba
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The 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
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Signed the civil rights act of 1964 into law and the voting rights act of 1965. He had a war on poverty in his agenda. In an attempt to win, he set a few goals including the great society, the economic opportunity act, and other programs that provided food stamps and welfare to nearby families. He also created a department of housing and urban development.
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A joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on in response of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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War on poverty and civil rights act; a large percentage of population is in poverty.
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National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment.
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Elected president in 1969; given problems of peace with honor; believes most americans do not want to pull out of the Vietnam War would be humiliating to lose
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U.S. policy in Vietnam under President Nixon. U.S. trained South Vietnamese troops to take over the fighting while the U.S. troops slowly withdraw.
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Prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least 18 years old.
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Notified congress to deploy troops after 90 days, congresses approval needed.
