Unit 7 Key Terms

Dwight D. Eiesenhower

Oct 14, 1890

Ray Croc

Oct 5, 1902

Lyndon B. Johnson

Aug 27, 1908

Richard Nixon

Jan 9, 1913

Jonas Salk

Oct 28, 1914

John F. Kennedy

May 19, 1917

Betty Friedan

Feb 4, 1921

Gary Powers

Aug 17, 1929

Roy Benavidez

Aug 5, 1935

Abbie Hoffman

Nov 30, 1936

War Powers Act

Apr 5, 1941

Venona Papers

Period: Apr 4, 1943 to Apr 4, 1980

Servicemen's Readjustment Act

Apr 4, 1944

Containment Policy

Period: Apr 5, 1944 to Apr 5, 1947

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Period: Apr 4, 1945 to Apr 4, 1952

Iron Curtain

Period: Apr 5, 1945 to Apr 5, 1991

Baby Boom Generation

Period: Apr 5, 1946 to Apr 5, 1964

Truman Doctrine

Period: Mar 12, 1947 to Jul 12, 1948

Cold War

Period: Apr 4, 1947 to Apr 4, 1991

Marshall Plan

Apr 3, 1948

Berlin Airlift

Period: Apr 5, 1948 to Apr 5, 1949

Rock n' Roll

Period: Apr 5, 1948 to Apr 5, 1955

Domino Theory

Period: Apr 4, 1950 to Apr 4, 1980

Beatniks

Period: Apr 4, 1950 to Apr 4, 1965

McCarthyism

Period: Apr 5, 1950 to Apr 5, 1956

Korean War

Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953

Rosenberg Trial

Mar 6, 1951

Interstate Highway Act

Apr 5, 1956

Space Race

Period: Apr 4, 1957 to Apr 4, 1969

Anti War Movement

Apr 4, 1960

Bay of Pigs

Period: Apr 17, 1961 to Apr 19, 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

Period: Oct 14, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962

Great Society

Period: Apr 4, 1964 to Apr 4, 1965

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Aug 7, 1964

Miranda v. Arizona

Apr 5, 1966

Tet Offensive

Jan 31, 1968

Vietnamization

Jan 28, 1969