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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States. He was a Five star general during World War ll,served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe.
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Ray was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was born in Oak Park Lllinois. He died in San Diego California.
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Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th President of the United States. After serving as the 37th Vice President under President John F. Kennedy.
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Richard Nixon was the 37th President. He was the only U.S. president to resign the office.
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Jonas Salk was a medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed polio vaccine
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was the 35th President of the United States. He was the one whohelped out throught the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs, and The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. Shw was Leading in the Woman's right movement. She wrote a book about it in 1963
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Roy Benavidez was a member of the United States Army Special Forces and aslo retired United States Army master. He fought in the vietnam war and wrote 2 books.
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Abbie Hoffman was an American political and social activist and anarchist who co-founded the Youth International Party
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The War power Act 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. Congress.
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G.I. Bill was created to help veterans of World War II by making hospitals and lowinterest morgages and expanses so people can go to college and or trade school
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The Iron Curtain was the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II
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The Baby Boom was the time when everyone wnated to have a family becuase the men came back from war
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the Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony
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The Containment Policay was a numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
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The Marshell Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe
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The Berlin Airlift was when the U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was soething that was made to have sercurity towreds that Soviet Union
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Beatnik was a media stereotype prevalent
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In the 1950's everyone wanted to fit in everyone acted the same and spend ad much money as they could the woman would stay home and raise the kids and take care of the house while the men would go out to work
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Rock n' Roll is a type of music that is made with the sound of guitar bass and drums its a amalgam of blcak rhythm, blues and country music
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The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force fought for the South
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The rosenberg trial was with Ethel and Juilus Rosenberg who was accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians.
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The Rust Belt is a term for the region straddling the upper Northeastern United States
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The Domino theory was a discuion that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism
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McCarthyism is the making of accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
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The Vietnam war was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam
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An act to amend and supplement the Federal Aid Road Act. Authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways; to amend the Internal Revenue Code to provide additional revenue from taxes on motor fuel, tires, and trucks and buses; and for other purposes.
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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.
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The 1960's was a bad time. people were depressed, homeless, but strong. The 1960's is the home of the hippies cuase all they wanted was for there to be peace in the world cuz if you didn't have money back them you wouldn't have a place to live
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The House Un-American Activies Commottee (HUAC) is a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Its first chairman, Martin Dies, set the pattern for its anti-Communist investigations.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. The Cubans had these missiles for self defenes since the United States tried to over throw them, but the United States thought diffrently.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was for President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
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The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson
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The Miranda V. Arizona was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court. In a 5 majority, the Court held that both inculpatory and exculpatory statements made in response to interrogation by a defendant in police custody
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The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. Useing forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese
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The 1970's was the time for fun activity, wierd and stand out clothing, and disco music. The 1970's was a calming time except everyone wante to try and get rich by getting famous
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Vietnamization 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, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops."
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The 26th Amendment says "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."
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The 1980's was when there was better techolgoy like televison for example everything was big better the music was getting better
