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World Power act
an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and put into law on December 18, 1941, less than two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor -
Iron Curtain
the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991 -
Cold war
The cold war was a proxy war between the ussr and the united states of america and the ussr was pro communism and the us was anti communism -
Containment policy
United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. -
Truman doctorine
an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War -
Marshall Plan
an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of March 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War two -
Nato
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization which is an organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones -
The great socitey
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. -
Beatniks
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. -
1950's prosperity
During the 1950's with ww2 and husbands and/or boyfriends coming home and having kids and moving to the suburbs from the city -
Rock 'n roll
A music style that grew to popularity in the 50"s and only sky rocked as time went on -
Rosenberg trail
begins in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians -
Domino Theory
The idea that communism in europe would spread like dominos fall that was very popular through the 50's to the 70's -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was the 34th president of the US who was a five star general in world war 2, His main goal while in office was to soviet union and to rduce federal deficits -
korean war
North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
Ray Kroc
Joined Mcdonalds and made it the company that is today with his ideas on what a fast food restraunt should be -
Jonas Salk
He was the man who discovered the vaccination for polio in 1955 -
Mcarthyism
practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism." -
Interstate Highway act
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (Public Law 84-627), was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. -
Space race
When the us and the ussr(russia) were in a race to see who could get to space first -
Lyndon B. Johnson
He was the 36th president of the united sates, his important ideas were his "great socitey", and his egislation upholding civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid -
Bay of pigs
Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 -
Cuban missle crisis
The ussr was putting necluar attack bombs on cuba -
John F. Kennedy
He was the 35th president of the united states who was the president in charge during the cuban misssle crisis and who was know for cheating on his wife with Marlyn Monroe -
Betty Friedan
She was a an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her book was a major kick in the femonist movement -
Baby Boom Generation
people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. This includes people who are between 52 and 70 years old in 2016. According to the U.S. Census Bureau -
Gulf of tonkin resoultion
authorization that President Johnson could take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia -
Miranda v. Arazona
a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court. In a 5-4 majority, the Court held that both inculpatory and exculpatory statements -
Roy Benavidez
He was a master sargent who recived a metal of honor for his survice in the war -
Tet offense
the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam -
Abbie Hoffman
He was a social activist and anacharist during the 70's who co-founded the youth international party -
Anti war movement
a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflic -
26th Amendment
the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old -
Vietnamization
a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops." -
Richard Nixion
He served as the vice prisdent to LBJ and sevred as the 37th president who brought home troops from the vienam war -
G.I. Bill
When the military moved to all volunteer and away from the draft -
house un-american activities committee
created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Its first chairman, Martin Dies, set the pattern for its anti-Communist investigations. -
Vietnam war
A war between north (communism) and south (deomcratic) vietnam with the ussr aiding the north and us helping the south, many us citizens protested this war that ended on April 30th when the north koren forces took control of the south vietnam forces -
Rust & Sun belt
People were moving from the north (rust belt) and going to the south (sunbelt) due to the better weather and the lower cost of living
