Post War America

  • Dwight D Eisenhower

    Dwight D Eisenhower

    He was the 34th US president, He was also a 5 star general.
  • Ray Kroc

    Ray Kroc

    He was a business man and joined with the company McDonalds in 1954 and made it the most successful place to this day.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Lyndon B. Johnson

    LBJ was the 36th president.
  • Richards Nixon

    Richards Nixon

    Nixon was the 37th US President serving from 1969-1974
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    He discoverd and made the Polio Vaccine. Poliovirus destroys the nerve cells in the spinal cord.
  • John F Kennedy

    John F Kennedy

    JFK was an american politician and served as the 35th president.
  • Betty Friedan

    Betty Friedan

    She was an american writer, activist. She was also a leading figure for women.
  • Gary Powers

    Gary Powers

    He was an american pilot with the U2 spy agency. Died at the age 48
  • Roy Benavidez

    Roy Benavidez

    He was a member of the US Army Special forces. He also recieved a medal of honor.
  • Abbie Hoffman

    Abbie Hoffman

    He was an amercian political and social activist. He died April 12 1989.
  • HUAC

    HUAC

    The House Un-American Activities Committee purpose was to "spy" on peoples activites and was created 1938
  • War Powers Act

    War Powers Act

    This was an american emergency law that increased american power.
  • Venona Project

    Venona Project

    It was the action of the US trying to decode these messages sent the the soviets.
  • G.I Bill

    G.I Bill

    It was a law that benefitted many returning World War II veterans
  • Containment Policy

    Containment Policy

    It was a policy to prevent the spread of communism.
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain

    It was imaginary boundry dividing Europe from the end of WW2
  • Baby Boom generation

    Baby Boom generation

    These were the people that were born between 1946-1964 which was the time period where there were a lot of kids born.
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    The cold war was a period of time where there was awkward tension between the democracies of the western world and the communist countries of Europe
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    This was a speech saying that the US would help any countryin their struggle.
  • Marshall plan

    Marshall plan

    They made the Marshall Plan to assist financially the european countries to help recover and rebuild.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    Divivded and occupied germany after WW2
  • NATO

    NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "Intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949."
  • Domino Theroy

    Domino Theroy

    This was a thoery that speculated that if one country came under the influence of communism then other would follow.
  • Rock n' Roll

    Rock n' Roll

    Rock n Roll strated around the 1950's. This type of music was hit back then and to this day still is.
  • 1950 Prosperity

    1950 Prosperity

    At the momnt the us had its strongest millitary camps, and mostly everything was good.
  • Beatnik

    Beatnik

    a person who participated in a social movement of the 1950s and early 1960s which stressed artistic self-expression and the rejection of the mores of conventional society
  • McCarthyism

    McCarthyism

    Also known as the Red Scare, it refers to the campaign made during this time period.
  • 1950's

    Baseball was pretty big, everything was basically okay. Millitary was good, the beginig of the Cold War.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    This war was betwwen South and North Korea.
  • Rosenberg trial

    Rosenberg trial

    It prosecutes a couple for supposedly having the possession of nuclear secrets to the russians.
  • Vietnam war

    Vietnam war

    It was a war the consisted of basically communism between North and South Vietnam.
  • Interstate Highway Act

    Interstate Highway Act

    President Dwight D Eisenhower signed this bill on June 29, 1956.
  • Space Race

    Space Race

    It was a competition in the 20th century between the US and Soviet Union.
  • 1960's

    1960's

    Martian Luther King and the civil rights act was pretty big at this time. JFK was president, everything was starting to become new.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    Invasion to Cuba by the CIA in 1961.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Soviet Union installed nuclear missiles into Cuba.
  • Great society

    Great society

    They were Domestic programs set up by LBJ. He basically wanted to end racial injustice.
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    This was passed so that President Johnson would make decisions on anything he believed was necessary.
  • Medicaid vs Medicare

    Medicaid vs Medicare

    Both Medicare and Medicaid can help with healthcare but Medicaid is specifically for elderly and for some that have special disabilities. Medicare is just helps everyone in general of all ages.
  • Anti war movement

    Anti war movement

    People in opposition to the nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    It was one of the largest millitary camps during the Vietnam War.
  • 1970's

    Womens rights, vietnam war came to and end, inflationa dndrugs were pretty bad.
  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization

    President Nixon decided to with draw almost 150,000 US troops from vietnam.
  • 1980's

    1980's

    Some say living through the 80's was good and bad. Everything was ugly, people did not care what they wore. Everyone was themselves.