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Baby Boom Generation
people born during the demographic post–World War II approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked during his two terms (1953-1961) to ease the tensions of the Cold War. -
Ray Kroc
Founder of McDonald's -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson massively escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Richard Nixon
Although Nixon initially escalated the war in Vietnam, he also ended the US involvement in 1973. -
Jonas Edward Salk
Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine. -
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States (1961-1963), -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States. -
Roy Benavidez
A member of the United States Army Special Forces. In 1965 he was sent to South Vietnam as an advisor to an Army of the Republic of Vietnam infantry regiment. -
Abbie Hoffman
American political and social activist and anarchist who co-founded the Youth International Party. -
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. -
McCarthyism
The extreme opposition to communism shown by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his supporters in the 1940s and 1950s.
making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
War powers ACT
An American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. -
G.I. Bill
A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. -
Iron curtin
Forms a imaginary boundary devising Europe in two from the end of world war 2 to the end of the cold war -
Truman doctrine
An American foreign policy created counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the cold war -
Cold war
The Cold War is the name given to the relationship that developed primarily between the USA and the USSR after world war 2 -
Containment policy
Containment was a United States policy using many strategies to prevent the spread of communism -
Marshall plan
( European Recovery Program) an American initiative to aid Western Europe in which the US gave in economic support to help rebuild Western Europe -
Berlin Airlift
Was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO)
An alliance of countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed on 4 April 1949. -
Domino Theory
speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
1950s Prosperity
The baby boom and the suburban boom went hand in hand. Almost as soon as World War II ended people were eager to have kids and move to the suburbs creating the term "white flight". -
1950s Culture
Experienced marked economic growth – with an increase in manufacturing and home construction amongst a post-World War II economic boom. -
Beatniks
a United States youth subculture of the 1950s that rebelled against the mundane horrors of middle class life. -
Korea War
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
Rosenberg Trail
A court case involving Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War is the commonly used name for the Second Indochina War, 1954–1973.The Fall of Saigon is basically the Liberation of Saigon -
Inverstate Highway Act
Enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. -
Space Race
The competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration.Oct. 4 USSR launches Sputnik 1. -
1960s Culture
The 1960s were one of the most creative periods in modern man's history. -
Bay of Bigs
Failed military invasion of Cuba. -
Cuban missle crisis
A 13 day confrontation between the United States and Soviet Russia concerning Soviet ballistic missle deployment in cuba -
The Great Society
The 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. -
Gulf of tonkin Resolution
Authorized 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. -
Miranda v. Arizona
Supreme Court ruled that detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination. -
Tet Offensive 1968
Tet offensive 1968, a series of crucial battles in the Vietnam War . -
Vietnamization
A policy to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. -
1970s Culture
1975 brought an end to the Vietnam conflict with the fall of Saigon. -
Anti-War Movement include
The anti-war movement began mostly on college campuses, as members of the leftist organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) began organizing “teach-ins” to express their opposition to the way in which it was being conducted. -
26th Amendment
The 26th Amendment changed a portion of the 14th Amendment. Section 1. 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.
(you can vote at 18) -
Rust Belt and Sun Belt
Soldiers came home from the war and recieved help from the G.I. Bill but in order to be able to build a large house they moved from the rust belt to the sun belt.(North to South) -
1980 culture
The Reagan Revolution and Reaganomics
