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American Politician and General who served as the 34th President of the United States.
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Founder of McDonalds
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LBJ, the 36th President of the United States.
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Named after Joseph McCarthy. The practice of making accusations of treason without proper evidence.
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The 37th President of the United States, was the only president to resign from office.
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Medical researcher, he discovered the first polio vaccine
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The 35th President of the United States. The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, developments in the Space Race, the building of the Berlin Wall etc. took place during his presidency.
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American writer, Feminist, activist. First president of the National Organization for Women.
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Pilot of the U-2 spy plane that was shot down while on a mission flying over the Soviet Union.
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Men=mber of the United States Special Forces, he recieved the Medal of Honor.
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Investigated allegations of communist activity in the U.S suring the years of the Cold War. 1945-91
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Venona was a top-secret U.S. effort to gather and decrypt messages sent in the 1940s by agents of the Soviet military intelligence agency.
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A list of benefits for returning WW2 vets.
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After WW2 the troops came home and wanted to start a Family. Which led to the "Baby Boom" where there were huge amounts of babies born 1945- 1964 generation.
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A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
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Truman pledged to contain soviet threats to turkery and greece.
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At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.
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The U.S gave Western Europe 13 billion dollars to help rebuild after the war.
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An alliance of countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed on 4 April 1949.
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if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
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A type of music that evolved in the U.S. That origionated from African-American genres like the blues and jazz etc.
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Started when North Korea invaded South Korea. U.S sided with South Korea and USSR and China sided with North Korea
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were being charged with selling nuclear secrets to the russians. (treason could not be charged because the United States was not at war with the Soviet Union).
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An act signed to make highways, signed be Eisenhower
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A rivalry between USSR and USA to see who could be the first to have accomplished space flight. Spidnik (USSR) was the first to enter space. But the USA was the first to land a man on the moon.
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U.S military invasion of Cuba, where we attempted to overthrow Castro but failed.
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Set of programs in the U.S that was launched by LBJ in hopes to get rid of poverty and racial injustice.
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A program designed to provide health coverage for low-income people.
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Draft- there was a major draft resistance the selected soldiers would claim disability and flee to Canada so they wouldn't have to participate in the war.
26th amendment- right to vote at age 18
Credibility gap-was widely used by skeptics to question the truthfulness of Johnson administration's policies
Silent Majority- was a popular term used in Nixons speech, he said "And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support." -
An act signed to provide health insurance to people age 65 and older, regardless of income or medical history.
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the 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.
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After the Vietnam War, this act was passed to put restrictions on the president from sending troops into battle eithout congressional approval.