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Roy Kroc
After world war 1 Kroc became a salesman for 17 years, Purchased a resturant company in 1961, He helped make Mc'donalds. -
Betty Friedan
she was a leading figure in the women movement in the u.s. -
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
It was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. -
Venona Papers
a list of names ostensibly deciphered from codenames contained in the Venona Project. -
War powers act
Its an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by the 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. The act was similar to the Departmetal Reorganization Act of 1917 as it was signed shortly before the U.S. engaged in a large war and increased the powers of the president's U.S. Executive Branch. -
G.I. Bill
give benefits to the veterans coming bakc to ww2. like schooling and free homes. -
Baby Boom Generation
after World War II ended more babies were born in 1946 than ever before -
Iron Curtian
It's the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contract with the West and other noncommunist areas. 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. -
Truman Doctine
With thr 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. The Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. forgien policy, away from its usual stnce of withdrawal from regional conflicts not directly invoving the United States, to one of possible intervention in far away conflicts. -
Containment Policy
The United States policy to prevent the spread of communism aboard. A component of thr Cold War, this policy was a reponse to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam. It represented a middle-ground position between appeasement and rollback. -
Cold War
Conflicts of national interest caused the World War II alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union to be replaced by a Cold War that lasted 45 years. Initially, a dispute over the future of Europe, it grew to include confrontations around the world. -
Marshall Plan
On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assisstance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. -
north atlanic treaty organization
first peacetime military alliance the united states entered into outside of the western hemisphere. -
Space Race
competition between two Cold War rivals, soviet union and the united states. -
Beatniks
was a media stereotype, that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. -
1950s Culture
During the Fifties, mass culture began to dominate in the United States. This accounted for much of the blandness that critics lamented. Television network executives in particular wanted to cater to the largest audience possible, so they shaped their programs to offend the least number of viewers. -
Rosenberg Trail
On July 15, 1950, Julius Rosenberg, an electrical engineer and employee for the U.S. Army Signal Corps, was arrested for allegedly passing atomic secrets to Russia. One month later, on August 11, Julius' wife Ethel, was also arrested, charged with assisting her husband with his illicit activities. -
Rock n' Roll
combination of African-American genres such as blues, boogie-woogie, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music, together with Western swing and country music. Early 1940s and late 1950s -
Jonas Salk
He was born on October 28, 1914, in New York, New York. He was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine. Born in New York City, he attended New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical reasearch instead of becoming a practicing physician. He died from a heart failure at the age of 80 on June 23, 1995, in La Jolla, California. -
Interstate Highway Act
Esienhower signed the act, law declared that the construction of an elaborate expressway system was “essential to the national interest.” -
Anti-war movement
Along with the Civil Rights campaigns of the 1960s, one of the most divisive forces in twentieth-century U.S. history. The antiwar movement actually consisted of a number of independent interests, often only vaguely allied and contesting each other on many issues, united only in opposition to the Vietnam War. -
Gary Powers
He was born on August 17, 1929, in Jenkins, Kentucky. He was was an American pilot whose, Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down, while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. He died on August 1, 1977, in Los Angeles County, California, causing helicopter crash at aged 47. -
1960s culture
human rights, drugs start to come in play, beatles, women(big hair), -
John f. Kennedy
He was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline Massachusetts. He was an American politican who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He was assassinated in Dallas, Texas at 12:30PM Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963. He was shot once in the throat and once in the head. He was taken to Parkland Hospital for emergency medical treatment, but pronounced dead at 1:00 pm. -
Bay of pigs
a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. -
Gulf of tonkin resolution
On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resoultion, authorizing President Lyndon B. Johnson to take any measures that he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in aoutheast Asia. -
Great Society
On January 4, 1965, in his State of the Union address, President Lyndon B. Johnson outlined the goals of "the Great Society", a set of domestic programs designed to advance civil rights and aid those in poverty. -
Miranda v. Arizona
addressed four different cases involving custodial interrogations. Miranda was found guilty of kidnapping and rape. -
Roy Benavidez
He was born on August 5, 1935, in Cuero, Texas. He is a fromer member of the United States Army Special Forces (Studies and Observations Group) and retired United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor (1981) for his valorous actions in combat near Lôc Ninh, South Vietnam on May 2, 1968. He died on November 29, 1998, at the age of 63 at Brooke Army Medical Center, having suffered respiratory failure and complications of diabetes. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas. He was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; On the morning of March 28, 1969, at the age of 78, Eisenhower died in Washington, D.C. of congestive heart failure at Walter Reed Army Hospital. -
Vietnamization
Upon taking office in 1969, U.S. President Richard Nixon (1913-94) introduced a new strategy called Vietnamization that was aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War (1954-75) by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. The increasingly unpopular war had created deep divisions in American society. Nixon believed his Vietnamization strategy, which involved building up South Vietnam’s military strength in order to facilitate a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops. -
Rust Belt and Sun belt
rustbelt- population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once powerful industrial sector.
sunbelt-high amount of sunshine -
1970s culture
rock n' roll, even more drugs, love, peace and joy, hippie, -
Lyndon B. Johnson
He was born on August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas. He was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, a position he assumed after his service as the 27th Vice President from 1961 to 1963. After he left the office, in January 1969, he returned to his Texas ranch, where he died of a heart attack on January 22, 1973. -
Fall of Saigon
north Vietnam and viet cong forces captured the south vietnamese capital Saigon, forcing them to surrender and bringing the vietnam war to a end. -
Gary Powers
He was born on August 17, 1929, in Jenkins, Kentucky. He was was an American pilot whose, Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down, while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. He died on August 1, 1977, in Los Angeles County, California, causing helicopter crash at aged 47. -
1980s culture
lots of drugs really big in the 80s, cars, hip hop, music, punk rock -
Abbie Hoffman
He was born on November 30, 1936, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He's a political and social activist who co-found the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). When he's 52, at the time of his death on April 12, 1989, which was caused by swallowing 150 phenobarbital tablets and liquor. He had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1980. -
Richard Nixon
He was born on January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California. He is the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only U.S. president to resign the office, he had previously served as a U.S. representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. He died at 9:08 p.m. on April 22, 1994, with his daughters at his bedside. He was 81 years old due to stroke, unable to speak, unable to move his right arm or leg. -
McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy takes office as a Republican senator from Wisconisn. In a primary election, McCarthy had defeated Sen. Robert La Follette Jr., son of one of the icons of American liberalism. Branding himself as "Tail Gunner Joe," McCarthy had run a vicious, negative campaign against his opponent with accusations that La Follette was a war profiteer. He died on May 2, 1957 due to hepatitis.
