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Mr. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 196. He was also the supreme commander of NATO
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Ray Kroc was a part of the extremely successful fast food restaurant, mcdonald's as well as very well known businessman
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The 36th president of the US. He previously served under JFK as vice president.
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the 37th president of the US until he resigned.
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the 37th president of the US until he resigned.
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was a medical researcher who founded the Salk Vaccine, a vaccine to the polio disease found in children.
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He was the 35th president of the US and was assassinated. He was credited with defusing the cuban missile crisis.
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Betty Friedan is credited with the second wave of feminism in american culture due to her novel, The Feminine Mystique.
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this committee was in charge of finding and prosecuting americans who supported communism, especially popular idols.
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provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II.
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babies born during the post ww2 period.
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were small towns built for returning veterans and their families by William Levitt.
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was america's strategic attempts to contain and prevent the spread of communism
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It was a new law stating that the US would provide assistance to any democratic civilization in need of help.
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a low violent war between USSR and the US. Occurred after the defeat of Nazi Germany. Led to huge threats of Nuclear Warfare.
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It was an American attempt to financially aid the war-devastated Western European countries.
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The Berlin Airlift was the U.S. flying supplies to west berlin due to Stalin's blockade.
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NATO, a military alliance, consisting of France, United Kingdom and the United States.
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Mccarthy attempted to wrongfully convict people of treason by accusing them of communist actions and help but did so with no evidence, therefore the term McCarthyism means accusation without evidence
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rock n roll helped undermine communism by humanizing a generation and sparking a new sense of alienation and rebellious behavior.
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This was the raise in population due to the idea that the future held great possibilities as well as a growth in government spending to better things like highway systems and schools
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a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation.
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North Korea was attempting to spread communism into the South. Truman was reminded of Hitler's actions and put an immediate stop to the attempt.
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North Vietnam was supported by the soviet union and were fighting against the south who were being assisted greatly by the US
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The main funding for our modern day highway systems
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The soviet union sent a satellite into space and their progression worried americans for the sake of nuclear warfare and sent americans into a scientific frenzy, credited with lots of discoveries.
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it was the first satellite to be sent into space by the soviet union and triggered the space race with the soviet union and US
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Was a failed invasion into Cuba by a group of Cubans that the US CIA funded, who traveled to the US after Castro's take over known as the Brigade 2506.
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It was a political and military standoff between the US and Cuba after we discovered missiles in cuba. Eventually the two came to an agreement and nuclear war was avoided.
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It was the first declaration of war made without the approval of congress
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a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.
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the social movement and protestation against the act of war.
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the Tet offensive was a series of attacks made by vietnam that soon became known as their “New Year's” holiday.
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the idea of the US preparing South Vietnam to fight the war themselves and slowly reducing US involvement
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armstrong and two other astronauts beat the USSR in the space race by stepping foot on the moon.
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the right for young people, old enough to enlist (18 years of age) to vote for representatives of their country.
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the rosenbergs were convicted of selling US secrets to the soviet union and were doubted for wrongful conviction but papers were later released proving their guilt.
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the idea that the actions and activities in one country will spread throughout neighboring countries
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altered the president's ability to commit the US to armed warfare without the consent of the congress.
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the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe