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Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th president. Five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. Served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.[2] He was the last U.S. President to have been born in the 19th century. -
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Mao Zedong
Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His Marxist-Leninist theories, military strategies and political policies are collectively known as Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought. -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
"LBJ". 36th president. Ran against JFK on Democratic side, but JFK won and then invited him to be his vice pres. (He accepted) He finished out Kennedy's term when he was assassinated. Then he became president. -
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RIchard Nixon
37th President.He was part of the giant Watergate scandal, but did not get impeached because he resigned. He handled the Vietnam War by slowly getting our troops out of there and training the South Vietnamese to handle themselves. he halso helped settle some tension between us and China, and the Soviet Union. -
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Jonas Salk
He's very important because he discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine. He saved milions of people's lives from this awful disease, and future lives as well. -
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John F. Kennedy
"JFK". 35th president. Served from January 1961 till November 1963. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas. He was president through the Cold War, and even the Cuban Missile Crisis. He handled the 13 days calmly and as well as he could. -
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Gary Powers
American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident during the Cold War. -
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Roy Benavidez
former member of the United States Army Special Forces (Studies and Observations Group) and retired United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor (1981) for his valorous actions in combat near Lộc Ninh, South Vietnam on May 2, 1968. He is recognized for his "6 hours in hell". -
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Abbie Hoffman
American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party. He was a massive influence on the American Youth and how they percieved the Vietnam War. He protested many other things like captalism and the NYSE. He even tried to "levitate the Pentagon". He ended up killing himself. -
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HUAC
House of unamerican activities. created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.Ruined many people's lives because they were put on the blacklist and couldnt get any work from anyone. -
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War Powers Act
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. The government needed to step up and take control at a time like this. -
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Iron Curtain
The wal that seperated Berlin from being fully complete. Half was communist, half was capitalists. Seperated the east from the west. Later destroyed and reunited the 2 sides again. -
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Cold War
Nonviolent war, very tense, mainly between the US and USSR. Communist v Capitalism. The spread of nukes caused us to be very aware of the danger they hold, and enemies was to use them.Space Race involved. -
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Truman Doctrine
Basically stated that we have to help anyone who may be in denger of being turned communists. -
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Containment Policy
United States policy 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 communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam. -
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Berlin Airlift
one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control. US decided to fly planes in with food and supplies. -
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Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Europe and Asia, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. his is great because it's needed badly. -
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Domino Theory
The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. Basically why we were in Vietnam was to stop the Domino Effect. -
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"McCarthyism"
A big campaign against communists in the US govt. and other places as well carried out by Senator Joeseph McCarthy. Many who were accused weren't even guilty but they got blacklisted anyway, causing them to lose their job and everyone they know. -
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Korean War
"Korean conflict", or "Forgotten War"
fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
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Rosenburg trial
The Rosenbergs helped work on the Atomic bomb, but they were also a member on the communist party. They told the Soviets secrets about building the bomb, and were soon charged with deathrow for treason. -
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Vietnam War
First Indochina war we got sucked into, but for purpose of stopping the spread of communism. many peopel thought we didn't belong in Vietnam because it wasn't our business, but it kind of was because we were pretoecting ourselves from it as well. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
13 day political and military standoff between the US and the Soviets. Soviets were installing missiles into Cuba, but we caught them. JFK used a blockade against ships in Cuban waters, They soon cam through and did as we wanted which is turn around. -
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Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964-65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. -
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Anti War Movement
A social movement that stood against the Vietnam War.These people were typically young but lead by someone in their 30s to 40s. This is important because these people had a big impact on the way many other people in society looked at the war as well. They didn't support our troops when they needed to, and they became angry with them. It all came from the news showing the real side of war. -
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub.L. 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.It is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of "conventional'' military force in Southeast Asia. Specifically, the resolution authorized the President to do whatever necessary. -
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Tet Offensive
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive (named for the lunar new year holiday called Tet), a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
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Vietnamization
The plan was to slowly bring out troops home while teaching the South Vietnamese how to handle themselves.