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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower, was the 34th president of the United States. For the first few years of Eisenhower's military career, he and Mamie moved from post to post throughout Texas, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Once Eisenhower and his wife Mamie had their first child. Once Eisenhower was elected for president he picked up where Roosevelt left off whcih was the New Deal and Fair Deal programs. -
Mao Zedong
Mao Tse-tung served as chairman of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1959, and led the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 until his death. In 1923, Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen began a policy of active cooperation with the Chinese Communists, who had grown in strength and number. Mao Tse-tung had supported both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and eventually adopted Lennist ideas. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson was elected vice president of the U.S. in 1960 and became the 36th president in 1963 once President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, President Roosevelt decided to help Lyndon B. Johnson win a commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve as a lieutenant commander. LBJ served on a tour of the South Pacific and flew one combat mission. LBJ was also the youngest minority leader in Senate history in 1953. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th U.S. president and the only commander-in-chief to resign from his position, after the 1970s Watergate scandal. In November 1960, Richard Nixon had ran for the presidential election, and lost only by 120,000 votes. The Electoral College showed a wider victory for Kennedy, who received 303 votes to Nixon's 219. Nixton took the failure as something learn from and then ran again in and got elected for the 37th president. -
Jonas Salk
Salk was a very smart man that spent a lot time researching ways to cure some dieseases. Salk made history when news of the discovery was made public on April 12, 1955, about the polio vaccine. Salk was hailed as a miracle worker. He further endeared himself to the public by refusing to patent the vaccine. He had no desire to profit personally from the discovery,
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John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States and also the youngest man elected to presidency.In Kennedy's inaugural address, given on January 20, 1961, the new president called on his fellow Americans to work together in the pursuit of progress and the elimination of poverty, but also in the battle to win the ongoing Cold War against communism around the world. -
Gary Powers
On May 1, 1960, a U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was brought down near Svedlovsk, Soviet Union. This event of teh U-2 spy plane had a very negative impact on U.S. - U.S.S.R. relations. The details surrounding this event are still a mystery because people aren't so sure what really happened. The U-2 spyplane program grew out of these concerns. The U-2 was a special high-altitude plane that flew at a ceiling of 70,000 feet. -
Roy Benavidez
Roy Benavidez was a former member of the United States Army Special Forces and he had also retired United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor (1981). Benavidez didn't think that he deserved a Medal of Honor because he didn't think of himself as a hero. He felt that the real heros were the ones who had die and he felted that he was just doing ehat he needed to do during all of his missions. -
Abby Hoffman
Abbie Hoffman was apart of an American political activist and he was also the founder of the Youth International Party. Abbie Hoffman was a strong active person apart of the American civil rights movement before turning to protests of the Vietnam War and the American economic and political system. Duringt the October March on Washington, Hoffman is in charge of a group trying to levitate the Pentagon. Ever since he has been charged he has gone MIA on us and even his youth group. -
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Established in 1938, the committee wielded its subpoena power as a weapon and called citizens to testify in high-profile hearings before Congress. The HUAC was a very intimidating atmosphere. which often produced dramatic but questionable revelations about Communists infiltrating American institutions and subversive actions by well-known citizens. THe United States can up with HUAC to get many answers for things -
Iron Curtain
The term Iron Curtain has been in occasionally used since the 19th century. The term became more known only after it was used by the former British prime minister Winston Churchill in a speech he made in Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946. The Iron Curtain was built as a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman asks for U.S. assistance for Greece and Turkey to become uncommunist domination of the two nations. Historians have often cited Truman’s address, which came to be known as the T uman Doctrine, as the official declaration of the Cold War. On March 12, 1947, Truman appeared before a joint session of Congress to make his case.The Truman Doctrine was a very simple warning that was made to the USSR just saying that we would support any nation. -
Cold War
The Cold War is a name of a war that was between the USA and the USSR after World War Two had ended. The Cold War was to end some internatioanl affairs that has happend many decades ago, and also many major crises that occurred such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Hungary and the Berlin Wall and many more.The Cold War's meaning is used to describe the relationship between America and the Soviet Union during 1945 to 1980. -
Containment Policy
The Containment Policy was created by Kennan which began in 1947. The containment policy stopped the expansion of communism into Western Europe by forming NATO, and protecting and aiding Greece and Turkey for internal, with Soviet help in attempts to take over. It kept South Korea free of communist control. Lost in Vietnam. Lost in Cuba by backing Castro to help remove Batista from power, and then having Castro for 48 years. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided up Germany and divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. In June 1948, the Russians didn't want to share Berlin. The Russians closed all highways, railroads and canals so that no one could get to them. The Berlin Airlift, lasted for more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan was set up because the economic infrastructure of Europe had been destroyed by the Second World War. The Marshall Plan is also known as the European Recovery Program. The Marshall Plan's objective was to help the European econocmy for their future and the rest of Europe.The Marshall Plan was veyr successful and it helped spark economic recovery all around Europe. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. The effect it had on the US was that it scared everyone into thinking that government officials were communists, and its comparable to the Salem Witch Trials, which were a similar accusation time in history where people were falsely accused of what was considered a satanic act. -
Domino Theory
The domino theory was the theory that if one nation was to be communist that the neighboring states would also become communist and would then start a chain reaction. South Vietnam and the United States felt that they should contain the spread of communism. -
Korean War
The Korean War happened because the government didn't agree to which type of government that Korea had. The choice of government was to become Democratic. Communism was an idea North Koreans got from the Soviet and Democracy was an idea the South Koreans got from Americans. . America tried there hardest to stop the spread of Communism. So North Korea started attacking South Korea and with our help we protected South Korea from coming a Communist country. -
Rosenberg Trial
The Rosenburg coupke supposedly had classified military information and were giving the information to the Soviet Union. The evidence about what the Rosenbergs were doing came from Greenglass and his wife named Ruth. The trial lasted a month and ended on April 4. The Rosenbergs were sentenced to death row on April 6. Later while captivated the Rosenberg's were offereda deal in which their death sentence would be reduced.They refused the ofer and were later executed. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long war that was was between Vietnam and the United states. The United States didn't want all of vietnam to be be communist, so the point of the war was to get North Korea to become something other than Communist. The Vietnam war ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a 13-day political and military standoff, in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. On October 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, and he explained his decision of how to enact a naval blockade around Cuba. He let America know that the U.S. was prepared to use ourmilitary force if it came to it. -
Great Society
After the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, many fellow americans were very sadden about what happened to the president. Since there was a lot of sarrow going on President Johnson passed a number of Kennedy Administration proposals including the Civil Rights Act. LBJ then had his own momentum. Johnson introduced his own vision for America: "the Great Society" -- in which America ended poverty, promoted equality, improved education, rejuvenated cities, and protected the environment. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The cause was the alleged attack on the USS Maddox by gunboats from North Vietnam in the Tonkin Gulf, The effect of the Resolution was in essence a green light to retaliate against North Vietnam by US Forces...The USA already had advisors in South Vietnam...The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was the next step in the escalation of the Conflict in South Vietnam. -
Anti-War Movement
There had been a very small peace movement in the US for a very long time. The Anti-War movement existed during the World Wars of I and II, but never really gained much popularity. During the Vietnam era, the movement became a popular rallying cry among college campuses, middle-class suburbs, labor unions and some limited government institutions. The Anti-War Movement became entangled with Civil Rights and the Free Speech Movement. -
Tet Offensive 1968
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, 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. -
Vietnamization
Once President Nixton entered the White House as the President onf 1969 he introduced a new strategy called Vietnamization that was aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War that has been going on from 1954 to 1975. Nixon thought of the Vietnamization strategy, which would make South Vietnam’s military strength build higher in order to facilitate a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops. By doing that it wouold allow U.S. to leave the conflict with its honor intact, -
War Powers Act
The War Powers Act of 1973 was made in result of the Vietnam war. Since so many troops we're sent and the USA never even declared war on Vietnam they thought something had to be changed. The president can't be sending troops no longer than 60 days and then after the 60 days he must get limited the power of the President of the United States to wage war without the approval of Congress.
