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levittown
Levittown was an increase in homes being built in a few different types to make living there fell more like yours. -
G.I. Bill
The term GI Bill refers to any Department of Veterans Affairs education benefit earned by members of Active Duty, Selected Reserve and National Guard Armed Forces and their families. The benefit is designed to help servicemembers and eligible veterans cover the costs associated with getting an education or training. -
Baby Boom
a person who was born between 1946 and 1964. -
Iron Curtain
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 in 1989. -
Containment Policy
A strategy used by the United States to prevent the spread of communism. -
Cold War
political hostility between USA and USSR characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare. -
Brain Airlift
The Berlin Airlift helped Berlin from falling in to Soviet Union control after ww2. -
Marshall Plan
America gave aid to Western Europe to help rebuild it after WW2 -
Truman Doctrine
The United States would support any country that is being forced into communism. -
NATO
the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
McCarthyism
A campaign against communists in the US government. Carried out by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, most did not belong to the Communist Party. -
Rock n' Roll
A type of dance music created with heavy beats and simple medlodies. -
1950's Prosperity
The economy grew 37% in the 1950's, and there was little to no inflation after ww2. -
Korean war
75,000 soldiers from the North Korea went across the 38th parallel. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war with South Korea. American officials were more concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism. After fighting back and fourth the alternative, they feared, would be a wider war with Russia and China or even, World War III. Finally, in July 1953, the Korean War came to an end. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
an American politician and soldier who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. -
Vietnamization
the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. -
Domino Theory
the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries -
Ray Kroc
An American businessman. He joined McDonald's and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. -
Jonas Salk
an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. -
Vietnam War
A Cold War conflict in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement. -
Rosenberg Trial
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians, but could not be charged because we were not at war with Russia yet. -
Interstate Highway Act
Authorized the construction of 41,000 miles of highway to be built. This would stretch across the whole nation. -
Sputnik
A series of artificial soviet satellites. -
JFK
an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States -
Bay of pigs
1400 Cuban exiles launched an invasion on the South side of Cuba -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Between the US and USSR concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Betty Friedan
American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 -
anti-war movement
a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Gave President Johnson the power to do whatever he feels is necessary to resolve and promote international after in Southeast Asia. -
The Great Society
The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. -
tet offensive 1968
North Vietnam and Viet Cong launched an attack on South Vietnam. -
tet offensive 1968
one of the largest military campaigns of Vietnam. -
Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. -
The Space Race
A race between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) to see who get get to the moon first. -
Rust Belt vs. Sun Belt
The rust belt was the region from the Great Lakes to the upper Midwest States, referring to economic decline, population loss, and urban decay. The sun belt is the southern US known for the movement of businesses and population into these states from the colder northern states. -
26th Amendment
Changed the voting age from 21 to 18. -
Richard Nixon
an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, -
War powers act
A federal law used to check the president's power to command the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Investigate the community for communists.
