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Ray Kroc
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Containment Policy
"using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam." -
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Betty Friedan
With her book The Feminine Mystique , Betty Friedan broke new ground by exploring the idea of women finding personal fulfillment outside of their traditional roles. She also helped advance the women’s rights movement as one of the founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW). She advocated for an increased role for women in the political process and is remembered as a pioneer of feminism and the women’s rights movements. -
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Abbott (Abbie) Hoffman
career as an activist starts modestly, with some civil rights work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. By 1966, he leaves the "straight" life behind, begins using drugs, and immerses himself in counterculture politics. With a handful of other top-drawer radicals, he creates the Youth International Party (Yippies), a flamboyant political group with no official membership or leadership. Hoffman's personal specialty is revolution-via-the ridiculous. -
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"McCarthyism"
For many Americans, the most enduring symbol of this “Red Scare” was Republican Senator Joseph P. McCarthy of Wisconsin. Senator McCarthy spent almost five years trying in vain to expose communists and other left-wing “loyalty risks” in the U.S. government. In the hyper-suspicious atmosphere of the Cold War, insinuations of disloyalty were enough to convince many Americans that their government was packed with traitors and spies. -
War Powers Act
"also known as the First War Powers Act, was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and put into law on December 18, 1941, less than two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor." -
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Iron Curtain
"The Iron Curtain was the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non-Soviet-controlled areas." -
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Baby Boom Generation
nine months after World War II ended, “the cry of the baby was heard across the land,” More babies were born in 1946 than ever before: 3.4 million, 20 percent more than in 1945. This was the beginning of the so-called “baby boom.” In 1947, another 3.8 million babies were born,3.9 million were born in 1952 -
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Cold War
"The Cold War was a decades-long struggle for global supremacy that pitted the capitalist United States against the communist Soviet Union. Although there are some disagreements as to when the Cold War began, it is generally conceded that mid- to late-1945 marks the time when relations between Moscow and Washington began deteriorating. This deterioration ignited the early Cold War and set the stage for a dynamic struggle that often assumed mythological overtones of good versus evil." -
Truman Doctrine
"President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece" -
marshall plan
"President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe." -
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Berlin Airlift
The Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. For nearly a year, supplies from American planes sustained the over 2 million people in West Berlin. -
north atlantic treaty organization (NATO)
NATO pact was signed its The United States and 11 other nations establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a mutual defense pact aimed at containing possible Soviet aggression against Western Europe. NATO stood as the main U.S.-led military alliance against the Soviet Union throughout the duration of the Cold War. -
Rock N Roll
Examine the impact of rock and roll, and explore how the birth of this new music influenced and was influenced by technology, teen culture, race, and geography. Teenagers fell in love with this new sound, listening to it on transistor radios and buying it in record stores. Strated by African Americans. -
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Korean War
Conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union, invaded the South. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal participant, joined the war on the side of the South Koreans, and the People’s Republic of China came to North Korea’s aid. -
Rosenberg Trail
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians -
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Dwight D Eisenhower
He became president Jan 20th, 1953. During his presidency he entered into the Cold War Era, with the Solivt Union. He was always under the threat of nuclear weapons. He also ended the war in Korea in 1953. -
Domino Theory
The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that 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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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." -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk found the vacince for Polio, he called it "Polio Pioneers". -
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Bay of Pig
a young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista . For the next two years, officials at the U.S. State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) attempted to push Castro from power. Finally, in April 1961, the CIA launched what its leaders believed would be the definitive strike invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American Cubans who had fled their homes when Castro took over.They surrendered after less than 24/h -
THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM
The bill created a 41,000-mile “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” that would, according to Eisenhower, eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way of “speedy, safe transcontinental travel.”the 1956 law declared that the construction of an elaborate expressway system was “essential to the national interest.” -
Francis Gary Powers
He was a U-2 Pilot . He was schduled to do he routine flight from Peshawar, Pakistan, covering 3,000 miles across the Soviet Union. Someone leaked the information to the Soviet Union. it crossed into Soviet airspace to where a SAM-2 missile shot it down over Sverdlosk. Powers lived the crash . -
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John F. Kennedy
He was involed with nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union were vital international issues throughout his political career. His inaugural address stressed the contest between the free world and the communist world In mid-October, American spy planes photographed the missile sites under construction. Kennedy responded by placing a naval blockade He also demanded the removal of the missiles and the destruction of the sites. November 1963, the number of US military advisers had reached 16,000 SV. -
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Cuban Missiles Crisis
He installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. In a TV address on October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat to national security. -
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The Great Society
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gulf of tonkin resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. 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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LYNDON B. JOHNSON
The 36th president, he was ssassination of President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963),launched an ambitious slate of progressive reforms aimed at alleviating poverty and creating what he called a “Great Society” for all Americans. Many of the programs he introduced–including Medicare and Head Start–made a lasting impact in the areas of health, education, urban renewal, conservation and civil rights. -
Medicaid and Medicare
This came to pass because of the Social Securit act Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of HHS. Both were created when President Lyndon B. Johnson -
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Tet Offensive 1968
Some of 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. General Vo Nguyen Giap, leader of the Communist People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN)planned the offensive in an attempt both to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its support of the Saigon regime. -
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RICHARD M. NIXON
He is best remembered as the only president ever to resign from office. halfway through his second term, rather than face impeachment over his efforts to cover up illegal activities by members of his administration in the Watergate scandal. -
space Race (sputnik and moon landings)
After World War II drew to a close in the mid-20th century, a new conflict began. Known as the Cold War, this battle pitted the world’s two great powers–the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union–against each other. Beginning in the late 1950s, space would become another dramatic arena for this competition, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and–by extension–its political-economic system. -
vietnam war including the fall of saigon 1975
The U.S. came back just to evacuate any remaining Americans and loyal South Vietnamese. This included operation Babylift which evacuated 2,600 children and took them back to the United States for adoption. By the time Saigo A North Vietnamese tank broke through the walls of the South’s presidential palace. The troops cornered South Vietnam’s last president Duong Van Minh and when he told his captives that he wanted to surrender, they informed him that he no longer had anything left to surrender. -
Roy Benavidez
He fought in the vietnam war and he receive his medal of honor. -
Venona Papers
The Venona Papers(Venona Project) was released in 1995. The Venona Project started in the 1940s, This was very top secert. "effort to gather and decrypt messages sent in the 1940s by agents of what is now called the KGB and the GRU, the Soviet military intelligence agency. "
