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created mcdonalds
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was signed into law. During the war, politicians wanted to avoid the postwar confusion about veterans' benefits that became a political football .
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a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives investigated allegations of communist activity in the U.S. during the early years of the Cold War
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demographic group born during the post–World War II baby boom,
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barrier separating former soviet union and the west prior to the decline of communism
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President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece.
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the significance of the cold war was that the United States emerged as the sole superpower in the world and capitalism trumped communism.
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attempted to stop the spread of communism
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was an American initiative to aid Western Europe the U.S gave over $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War 2
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prevented berlin from falling into the soviet union after ww2
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intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without any regard for evidence
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originated in the U.S
rhythm of blues and country music helped create this -
more homes made and schools
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North Korea invaded South Korea
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economy grew 37% overall
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prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the russians
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34th pres. served 2 terms
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end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops.
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media stereotype that displayed more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement
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a theory that a political event in one country will cause the same events in surrounding countries like one domino falling making all the others do the same
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discovered that there were three distinct types of polio viruses and they was able to develop a "killed virus" vaccine for the disease.
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french claimed Vietnam as a colony, and the communist forces then known as Viet Minh
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The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation.
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was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit. It was a polished metal sphere, with four outside radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses.
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competition between two Cold War rivals the Soviet Unionnand the U.S. for supremacy in spaceflight capability.
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1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba
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was a direct 13 day and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
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womens roles were changed
her book which explored the causes of the frustrations of modern women in traditional roles. -
was the 35th President of the United States the youngest man elected to the office when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office JFK was assassinated in Dallas ,Texas becoming also the youngest President to die
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vice president as JFKs running mate
after jfk died johnson was sworn into presidency with a vision to build a " great society " for the american people -
a set of domestic programs in the United States The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
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was a joint resolution that the U.S Congress passed in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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a social movement to start or carry on armed conflict also used all military force if needed
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one of the largest military campaigns
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Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon
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RUST BELT economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once-powerful industrial sector.
SUN BELT a strip of territory receiving a high amount of sunshine. -
gave the right to vote to many who was 18 years or older
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is a federal law made to check the president's power to commit the US to an armed conflict without U.S. Congress knowing or approving it
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37th president known as the president to resign
