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War Power Act
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. Congress. Aftermath of the Vietnam War to address these concerns. -
House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Un-American Activities Committee or HUAC created in 1938 was designed to investigate disloyalty and subversive activities of citizens having communist ties. During the cold war this committee focused on suspected communists in positions of actual or supposed influence in the US society. A major and significant step for HUAC was its investigation of the charges of espionage brought against Alger Hiss in 1948. -
G.I. Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944)
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for the returning World War II veterans. On June 22, 1944 the G.I. Bill of Rights, was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt. These Benefits included cash payments of tuition down to low-cost mortages -
Baby Boom Generation
The "baby boom generation" was a group born during the post- World War II era. Between the years 1946 and 1964 were about 76.4 million babies born; when this generation began to grow older they began rebellious. This generation also know as "Generation X" -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was another name for the boundary that divided Europe into two separate areas until the end of the Cold war. This term symbolized the works of the soviet union trying to block themselves from open contact with the West. -
Levittown
Levittown was the name of many large suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt. This was built after WWII for returning veterans, the communities offered attractive alternatives to cramped central city locations and apartments -
Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
a term for the region of the United States from the Great Lakes to the upper Midwest States, referring to economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once-powerful industrial sector, It is also known as deindustrialization -
Richard 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. -
McCarthyism
Was the practice of making accusations of treason without the proper evidence. The term comes from Joseph McCarthy, a U.S Senator from the state of Wisconsin. He was known for making claims that there were many communists and Soviet spies inside the United States federal government. -
Truman Doctrine
Was an American foreign policy that was created to prevent and stop the Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War. It was announced by President Truman on March 12, 1947 -
Containment Policy
Was a U.S. policy using any and every stratagies to prevent the spread of communism. This policy was a response of moves by the Soviet Union made to influence communism in Eastern Europe, CHina, Korea, and Vietnam. The Truman Docterine was a very known example of containment. -
Marshall Plan
Was an American plan to aid Western Europe. The United States gave over $12 Billion in economic support to help rebuild Western Europe economies after the end of WWII. This plan was in action for 4 years beginning April 8, 1948 -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of WWI, the U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. On the day June 24, 1948 the soviet forces created a blockade in allied controlled areas. The Allies responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in Western Germany -
Rock n' Roll
Famous music genre. Infused black rhythm and blues with bluegrass and country. Brought the separated “black and white” musical tradition. -
1950's Prosperity
The Decade of Prosperity. The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950s. It was a decade of inflation. It did crash because Eisenhower wanted to balance the federal budget. -
Korean war
North Korea invaded South Korea. United States helped out the South, while China helped The North. This was happening while the cold war was happening. The war lasted for three years. Nobody really “won” it was agreed from both sides that the war would end. -
Rosenberg Trail
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American communists. They told the USSR our nuclear weapon secrets. They were executed shortly after. -
Ray Kroc
was an American businessman. He joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world -
Interstate Highway Act
The act took place when Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill in 1956. The purpose of the act was that there would be a forty thousand mile highway throughout the nation. -
Sputnik
The first Earth satellite, launched by Russia. It made the US scared because they thought that the satellite was watching what we were doing 24/7. -
Moon Landing
the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned missions. Also, the first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959 -
Beatniks
a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation -
John F. Kennedy
was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
was an American politician and Army general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. -
Bay of Pigs
was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Betty Friedan
was an American writer, activist, and feminist. 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 wave of American feminism in the 20th century. -
Great Society
was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
was elected Vice President as John F. Kennedy's running mate. On November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as the 36th United States President, with a vision to build "A Great Society" for the American people. -
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. -
Tet Offensive
When North Vietnam performed a big attack on the Vietnamese New Year. It was was defeated after a month of fighting major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted quickly, with an approval of withdrawing troops and more anti-war sentiment -
Space Race
A competition to go to space first. Race was between US and the Soviet Union. involved the efforts to explore outer space with artificial satellites, to send humans into space, and to land them on the Moon. -
26th Amendment
Lowered the voting age to 18 instead of 21. This was a reaction to the youth movement and the vietnam war. -
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 from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
NATO is known as a military alliance that was established as a respond to the Soviet Union's threats after WWII. The members of NATO were the Western and Eastern European nations. Each member of NATO agreed to defend each other if there was ever to be a soviet attack. -
Cold War
was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. Happened between 1947-1991 -
Anti-War Movement
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. -
Domino Theory
The theory goes if one country does something bad then the other country’s will fall into the same trap and mess up like that one country did. -
Jonas Salk
An American biologist and physician. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. -
Vietnamization
When President Nixon withdrew over five hundred thousand troops in the Vietnam war over a period of time. He withdrew them in waves so that way South Vietnam can take responsibility and start fighting their war.
