Post War America

By bfodor
  • HUAC

    HUAC

    House un-ameican activities committee. Investigated allegations of comunist activity in the U.S.
  • War Powers Act

    War Powers Act

    American emergency law that increased federal power during WW2.
  • Iron Curtian

    Iron Curtian

    Physical boundary dividing europe in two seperate areas from the end of WW2 to the start of the Civil War.
  • Containment Policy

    Containment Policy

    Used to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    Political and military tension after World War 2 between powers in western bloc.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Established that the United States would provide political, military an economic assisstance to all democratic nations.
  • Matshall Plan

    Matshall Plan

    American initiative to aid europe and asia, in which the United States gave 13 billion dollars in economic support to help rebuild european economies after the end of WW2.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    Soviet union blocked western allies' railway, road, and canal access.
  • Mao Zedong

    Mao Zedong

    Was the chineese communist and the founding father of the people of china.
  • " McCarthyism"

    " McCarthyism"

    Practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    War between North and South Korea cause of the global tensions from the Cold War.
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    Discovered and developed the first suscessful inactive pollo vacine.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    34th president of the United States of America.
  • Rosenberg Trials

    Rosenberg Trials

    Trials for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were excuted for conspiracy to commit espionage. about aromic bombs to soveit union.
  • Dominio Theory

    Dominio Theory

    Speculated that if one state ina region came under the influence of communism, then surrounding countries would follow.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    Was between North and South Vietnam governments.
  • Anti- War movement

    Anti- War movement

    Social movement. Particular nations decision to start or carry on an armed conflict.
  • Gary Powers

    Gary Powers

    American pilot whos u2 plane got shot down while flying a reconnasiance mission over the Soviet Union.
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy

    35th President of the United States of America.
  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis

    13 day conformatoin betwwen the united states and the soviet union over soviet ballistic missles deployed in Cuba.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Lyndon B. Johnson

    36th President of the United States of America.
  • Great Society

    Great Society

    Domestic programs in the United States launched by president Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Authorizing president johnson to take any measures he believed was nessessary to retaliate and to promote the maintained of international peace.
  • Abbie Holfman

    Abbie Holfman

    Co founded the youth internatoinal party.
  • Tet offensive

    Tet offensive

    One of the largest military comapaigns of the Vietnam War.
  • Roy Benavidez

    Roy Benavidez

    Former member of the unites states army special forces. also recieved metal of armor for combat in south vietnam.
  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon

    37th president of the united states of america.
  • Vienamizaton

    Vienamizaton

    Policy richard nixon administarted during the Vietnam War to end U.S. involvment in the war.