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Lyndon Baines Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson, was the 36th president of the United States of America. He became president after Kennedy was assassinated, and Johnson became the 36th U.S. president In 1963. -
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Harry S. Truman
With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
In 1945 Dwight D Eisenhower was appointed U.S. Army chief of staff. He became the first Supreme Allied Commander of the NATO in 1951. In 1952 he was elected U.S. president. -
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Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was an American entrepreneur best known for expanding McDonald’s from a local chain to the world’s most profitable restaurant franchise operation. It was in his role as a milkshake machine salesman that Kroc first became involved with McDonald's. The McDonald brothers were clients who had purchased multiple mixers. -
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office. -
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Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was a Russian-Jewish Immigrant that is famous for being one of the first to discover a successful vaccine for the Polio disease. -
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John F. Kennedy summary: John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. He was born in 1917 into a wealthy family with considerable political ties. Kennedy studied Political Science at Harvard University. He was elected on November 8, 1960. -
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Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique. With her book Betty Friedan broke new ground by exploring the idea of women finding personal fulfillment outside of their traditional roles. -
Levittown
In the decade after World War II , one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home. The Levitts William, Alfred, and their father, Abe pooled their talents to create storybook towns with affordable little houses. founded by Abraham Levitt on August 2, 1929, which built the district as a planned community between 1947 and 1951. -
Rock n Roll
A genre of music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s and is still very popular today. -
House Un-American Activities Committee
House Un-American Activities Committee, a committee (1938–75) of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Its first chairman, Martin Dies, set the pattern for its anti-Communist investigations. This was all caused from paranoia and absolute hate of communism. -
GI Bill
A law that provided a range of benefits for returning veterans. -
The Iron Curtain
The term Iron Curtain had been in occasional and varied use as a metaphor since the 19th century, but it came to prominence only after it was used by the former British prime minister Winston Churchill in a speech at Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946, when he said of the communist states that they had spread a iron curtain over europe. He was referring to the differences between the communist states and the other countries. -
Containment Policy
The Containment policy was a policy in the Cold War by the US that used strategies to prevent the spread of Communism in East Europe, Africa, China, Korea and Vietnam. -
The Marshall Plan
On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the act that became known as the Marshall Plan. Participating countries included Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey. -
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Berlin Airlift
By the end of WW2 Berlin was occupied by Soviet forces, in the east, and US/ French/ UK forces, in the west. There was conflict on whether Berlin would be either controlled mostly by the Soviets or Western allies, so the Soviets blocked land, road, and water from the western side of Berlin, therefore the US and UK would airlift food and fuel to their part of the Berlin. -
North Atlantic Treat Organization (NATO)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. Its goal was to unite the democratic nations against communism in case they attacked. -
McCarthyism
The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason with out proper regard for evidence. -
Domino Theory
The political theory that an event in one country can lead to similar events in their surrounding countries. -
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50's Prosperity
The 1950's prosperity was a period during the 1950's where the us was experiencing a boom in economy, population, and culture. The United states was the leader in military power and the economic center of the world. The US was not only growing in the homeland, but also spending massive amounts of money to fund the future of other nations that fell during world war 2 -
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Beatniks
Beatnik was a media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. -
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Korean War
The Korean war began after North Korea launched an attack on South Korea, because North Korea wanted to fully conquer the whole Korean Peninsula under their communist rule as it was before the peninsula was divided into tow after WW2. South Korea was aided by the US and UN troops while North Korea was backed up by China. The war lasted 3 years and ended with an armistice. -
Sputnik 1
The first ever artificial Earth satellite launched into the low orbit of Earth by the Soviet Union Space Program. It was the first step to the human exploration of Space and first move to have the Soviets ahead of the US in the Space Race. -
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The Space Race
Space Race was a competition in the exploration of space between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Space Race started as the Russians developed rocket technology and launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth, on October 4, 1957. The Soviet Union was winning for the most part, until the end, when the US landed on the moon -
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The Rosenberg Trial
Julius Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950, a few weeks after the Korean War began. He was executed, along with his wife, Ethel, on June 19, 1953, a few weeks before it ended. The legal charge of which the Rosenbergs were convicted was vague: “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage. -
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union. The USSR was supplying Cuba with nuclear missiles that threatened the US. The US retaliated by imposing a blockade on Cuba and tried to get the USSR to take out the missiles from Cuba. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The US basically invaded Cuba to topple the Fidel Castro. The plan failed obviously and Cuba remanded under Castro control. -
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The Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. Anti-war Democrats complained that spending on the Vietnam War choked off the Great Society -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed by Congress allowing president Lyndon B. Johnson to take any measure necessary to retaliate against anything that would take away the peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Medicaid
A health care program for families and individuals with low income. -
Anti - War Movement
Initiated by President Johnson...several events such as the surprise Tet Offensive and in 1971 the Pentagon Papers confirmed suspicions that there was a "gap" between the governments declarations of controlled military and political resolution, and reality. -
Medicare
A national insurance program, administered by the U.S. federal government private insurance companies across the United States -
Interstate Highway Act
This act passed by President Dwight Eisenhower was to eliminate unsafe roads, traffic jams, and inefficient routes by creating a 41,000 mile Interstate System around the country. -
Sun Belt vs Rust Belt
The Rust Belt is a term for the region of the United States from the Great Lakes to the upper Midwest States, referring to economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once-powerful industrial sector, also known as deindustrialization. -
Moon Landing
Lunar Landing Mission, Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. The astronauts also returned to Earth the first samples from another planetary body. -
26th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
War Power Act
This act was made to restrict the President and their executive branch power to make hostile decisions regarding foreign countries and war without consulting Congress first. -
Vietnamization
After Richard Nixon took office he introduced a strategy that would end an US involvement in the Vietnam War by leaving all the Military responsibility to South Vietnam. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive, In late January, 1968, during the lunar new year (or “Tet”) holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam.