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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States. In 1945, he was appointed to be the U.S. Army cheif of staff. He was elected as the U.S. President in 1952 and served 2 years term before retiring to Gettysburg in 1961. He became the first Supreme Commander of the NATO. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). -
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Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was an American entrepreneur, best known for expanding McDonald’s. Kroc worked as a salesman for 17 years after WW1 before he got involved with McDolnold's in the 1950s. He purchased the resturant in 1961, and help McDonolds became the world largest restruant franchise before his death in 1984. -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson was elected as vice presdient of the U.S. in 1960. When Kennedy was assassinated, he take over as the 36th president in 1963. During his administration, Johnson initiated the "Great Society" programs, signed the Civil Rights Act into law, and vast expansion of American involvement in the Vietnam War. -
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Richard Nixon
Nixon was elected as the 37th president of the U.S. and the only commder in chief to resign from his position after the 1970s. Nixon ran for president in 1960 but was beaten by John F. Kennedy. He return to the race 8 years later and won the White House by a solid margin. In 1974, he resigned rather than be impeached for covering up illegal activities of party members in the Watergate affair. -
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Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was a American physician and medical researcher who developed the first safe and effective vaccine for polio. IN 1942, he became a part of this group that was working to develop a flu vaccine in University of Michigan School of Public Health. in 1947, he became head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburg, where he began his reserach on polio. -
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John F. Kennedy
Kennedy was the 35th President of the U.S.He negotiated the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and initiated the Alliance for Progress. He served the U.S. House of Representative and U.S. Senate before serving as president in 1961. He faced a lot of forieng crises between Cuba and Soviet Union. He was assignated on Novemeber 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. -
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Betty Friedan
Friedan was a writer and a woman rights activst. She wrote "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963 and the co-founder of the National Organization for Women. She broke the 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. -
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Gary Powers
Francis Gary Powers was a pilot of an American spy plane that was shot down by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The event happen on May 1, 1960, while Powers was flying over with a photographic plane over the Russian airspace. Powers was bailed out, and captured by the Soviets. -
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Roy Benavidez
Roy Benavidez was a member of the United States Amey Special Forces and retired as a master sergeant who recvied the Medal of Honer in 1981 for various combat during the Vietnam War. -
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Abbie Hoffman
Hoffman is a American political activist and founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies). He was known for his successful media events. He was active in Civil Rights movement before turning protest of the Vietnam War. He form the organization of the Yippies in January 1968. He was arrested of cocaine charges 1973 and went undergroud. -
House In-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives investigated allegations of communist activity in the U.S. during the early years of the Cold War. The committee its subpoena power as a weapon and called citizens to testify in high-profile hearings before Congress. -
War Powers Act
Requires the President, upon sending troops into military action, must notify Congress within 48 hours that he has done so. -
Venon Papers
Venona was a top-secret U.S. effort to gather and messages sent in the 1940s by agents of what is now called the KGB and the GRU, the Soviet military intelligence agency. The cables revealed there were numerous American spies for the Soviet Union. -
G.I. Bill
The G.I. Bill created to help veterans of World War II and established hospitals, made low-interest mortgages available and cover tuition and expenses for attending college or trade schools. From 1944 to 1949, nearly 9 million veterans received close to $4 billion from the bill’s unemployment compensation program. -
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Baby Boom Gernation
The Baby Boom Gerneration is when men from the WW2 would come back home and created nuermous babies. Baby Boomers were poeple who were born between '46-'64. The Baby Boomers are currently the largest generation in America. -
Iron Curtain
It formed a 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. It symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itselfs and its satellite from opening contact to the West and non Soviet area. -
Containment Policy
It was the first major policy during the Cold War and used numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman originally worte the document, he asked $400 million dollars in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey and established a doctrine. -
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Cold War
The U.S. and Soviet Union had various of idead of wars that is called the Cold war, after WW2. The Cold War begin in Europe after World War II, where the Soviet Union won control of Eastern Europe. It controlled half of Germany and half of Germany’s capital, Berlin. The United States, Britain, and France controlled western Germany and West Berlin. In June 1948, the Soviet Union blocked roads and railroads that led to West Berlin. -
Marshall Plan
Was an American aid to Western Europe, in which gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War. -
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Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union blockage roads and land routes in West Berlin. U.S. began 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)
The NATO was createed by the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe to provide security from the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. In 1947–1948, a series of events happen in Western Europe to become concerned about their security. The United States to become more closely involved with European affairs. -
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1950s
During the Fifties, mass culture began to dominate in the United States. This accounted for much of the blandness that critics lamented. Television network executives in particular wanted to cater to the largest audience possible, so they shaped their programs to offend the least number of viewers. -
"McCarthyism"
McCarthyism was an event that Joseph McCarthy named over 100 Communist leaders and feared Americans. It feared Americans because it was the height of the Cold War and Americans feared that communism would take root in the United States. -
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Korean War
The Korean War began when about 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel. The invasion was the military action of the Cold War. By July, Americans joined in the attack with South Korea. -
Rosenbery Trail
The Rosenbert trail begin in New York Souther District federal court. It was the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were American citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage and for passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviets. -
Domino Theory
The Domino Theory held a communist victory in one nation that would lead quickly to a chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighboring states. In Southeast Asia, the U.S. government used the Domino Theory to justify support of a non-communist regime in South Vietnam against the communist government of North Vietnam. Though, it was a failure in Vietnam, the communist regimes arise with the Laos and Cambodia in 1975. Communist failed to spread throughout Southeastern Asia. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the second IndoChina war. The U.S. had the largest foreign military presence and basically directed the war from 1965 to 1968. The Vietnam war was the longest war for the U.S. Because the U.S. failed to achieve a military victory and the Republic of South Vietnam, that was taken over by North Vietnam, the Vietnam experience became known as "the only war America ever lost." -
Interstate Highway Act
The bill created a 41,000-mile “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” that would eliminate unsafe road and traffic jams. At the same time, it advocates "in case of atomic bomb attack". -
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Space Race (Sputnik and Moon landings)
During the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviet Union served a dramatic arena for Cold War competition with the Space Race. On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik, a Russian word for traveler. It was the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth’s orbit. -
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1960s
Many Americans believed they were standing at the dawn of a golden age.John F Kennedy was elected and then later assisinated in '63. His confidence as one historian put it, “the government possessed big answers to big problems” seemed to set the tone for the rest of the decade. The golden age never materialized. By the end of the '60s, the nation was falling apart. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a directed dangerous confortation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. During the crisis, the two superpowers came close to a nuclear conflict. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin gave a broad approval for expanding the Vietnam War. During the spring of '64, military plans to develop a deatailed design to attack North Vietnam, but President Johnson was afraid that the public would not support the expanision of the war. By summer, however, rebel forces had established control over nearly half of South Vietnam. -
Anti War Movement
It was the movement against U.S. involving the Vietnam War. Anti-war marches and other protests attracted a widening base of support over the next three years. -
Great Society
President Johnson created the Great Society. In his first State of the Union message, he called for a war on poverty and the creation of a "Great Society," a prosperous nation that had overcome racial divisions. To this end, Johnson proposed an expansion in the federal government's role in domestic policy. -
Medicaid
A joint federal and state program that helps low-income individuals or families pay for the costs associated with long-term medical and custodial care. Its provided they qualify, largely funded by the federal government. -
Medicare
Federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD). -
MIranda vs. Arizon
Ernesto Miranda was identified in a police lineup by a woman, who accused him of kidnapping and raping her. He was arrested and question for 2 hours until he confessed the crime. During the interrogation, police did not tell Miranda about his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination or his Sixth Amendment right to an attorney. -
Tet Offensive
About 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive (named for the lunar new year holiday called Tet), a series attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. The North Vietnam achieved a strategic victory with the Tet Offensive, as the attacks marked a turning point in the Vietnam War. -
Sun Belt
Its warm climate with extended summers and brief, relatively pleasant winters within the Sun Belt areas of the U.S. The Sun Belt is spread throughout southern and southwestern area of the country from Florida to California. -
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1070s
The 1970s was a unique culture of all American history. The 70s included rocks, mood rings, water beds, crystals, incense, and wild color. During the 70s, the Vietnam war was happening and America started to protest. Durgs was spreading through out the country with hippies and rock and roll. -
Rust Belt
Located parts of the northeastern and midwestern U.S., Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. that are characterized by declining industry, aging factories, and a falling population. -
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1980s
During the 80s, everything was neon and ugly. Color combinations were the worst. Fashion was weird, music was over-digitized. Media controlled the citizens throughout the country. The first popular media was MTV, where everyone wanted to be superstars and all famous. The first music video on MTV was Video Killed The Radio Star, by the Buggles.