post war america

house un-american activities committee

Jul 28, 1938

investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.

war powers act

Dec 18, 1941

American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II.

Abby Hoffman

Apr 12, 1945

) was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party

iron curtain

Mar 5, 1946

developed their own international economic and military alliances.

Great society

Jun 4, 1946

domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B.

marshall plan

Mar 3, 1947

This was also called the European Recovery Program. It made 13 billion dollars to finance the European Economy. This helped get the European's confidence up in their country.

truman doctrine

Mar 12, 1947

Military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

cold war

Apr 1, 1947

political and military tension after World War II between powers

containment policy

Jul 16, 1947

policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad.

berlin airift

Mar 3, 1948

Used an airlift as a way to get supplies to Western Berlin. Western Berlin couldn't get supplies due to the Berlin blockade.

Mao Zedong

Dec 26, 1949

governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China.

Mccarthyism

Feb 9, 1950

campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy

Domino Theory

Apr 7, 1950

one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

korean war

Jun 25, 1950

75,000 Korean troops travelled across the 38th Parallel. This was the first military action of the Cold War.

rosenberg trail

Mar 6, 1951

family torn apart, and a story of government overreaching.

jonas salk

Oct 28, 1951

three distinct types of polio viruses and was able to develop a "killed virus" vaccine for the disease.

Vietnam war

Nov 1, 1955

Costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies.

Richard Nixon

Apr 16, 1960

he served as vice president for 8 years.

gary powers

Aug 16, 1960

American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying

lyndon B. Johnson

Nov 8, 1960

He was the 36th president of the united states.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jan 20, 1961

He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander .

cuban missile crissis

Oct 14, 1962

Soviet Union stood closer to Armageddon than at any other moment in history.

john F. kenedy

Jan 27, 1963

American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States

anit-war movement

Apr 6, 1967

Democratic Society began organizing to express their opposition to the way in which it was being conducted.

gulf of tonkin resolution

Aug 7, 1967

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.

Tet offensive 1968

Jan 31, 1968

it was the US involvemnt in the vietnam war. North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam.

Roy Benavidez

May 2, 1968

He was in Army Special Forces. he was many help of in a militarys.

vietnamization

Jan 23, 1969

policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end U.S.