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Dwight D. Eisrnhower
34th president, five star general in the United States Army during World War 11. -
Ray Kroc
After world war 1 Kroc became a salesman for 17 years, Purchased a resturant company in 1961, He helped make Mc'donalds. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Made a impact of healthcare, education, civil rights, urban renewal, conservation. -
Richard Nixon
best remebered as the only one president who resign from office, he stepped down, forging diplometic ties with china and thw soviet union and withdrawing tropps from an unpopluar war in Vietnam, -
Jonas Salk
Discovered and developed the first successful polilo vaccine. -
John F. Kennedy
35th president, He confronted mouting cold war in cuba, vietnam, and elsewhere. -
Betty Friedan
she was a leading figure in the women movement in the u.s. -
Gary Powers
Sent to prison for 10 years, was shot down by U-2 spy plane in soviet air space. Eisenhower was forced to admit to the soviets that the U.S Central Intelligence Agency had been flying spy missions over the USSR for years. -
Roy Benavidan
got a medal of honor for his actions in combat near Loc Ninh south Vietnam -
Abbie Hoffman
ameican politcal and social activist and anarchist who co-founded the Youth International Party. -
House Un-American Activites Committee
to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens -
Venona Papers
a list of names ostensibly deciphered from codenames contained in the Venona Project. -
War Powers Act
an American emergency law that increased Federal power during ww2. two weeks later the Japanese attack pearl habor. -
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 Curtain
imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II. -
containment policy
communist governments will eventually fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence. -
Truman Doctrine
he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
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. -
1950
tv, elvis, diners, cars, -
"McCarthyism"
a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations. -
korean war
war between 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. -
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 -
interstate highway act
Esienhower signed the act, law declared that the construction of an elaborate expressway system was “essential to the national interest.” -
Rosenberg Trail
an American couple who were spies for the Soviet Union. -
domino theory
speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow. -
1960s
human rights, drugs start to come in play, beatles, women(big hair), -
anit-war movement
people going against war. -
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
Presdient Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promte the maintenance of international peace and security in southwest Asia. -
great society
goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. -
medicaid
programsdesigned to provide health coverage for low-income people. -
Medicare
is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older. -
Miranda v. Arizona
addressed four different cases involving custodial interrogations. Miranda was found guilty of kidnapping and rape. -
Tet Offensive 1968
A holdiday to celerbrate North and South Vietnam for not fighting. -
vietnamization
a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to expand 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. -
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
rock n' roll, even more drugs, love, peace and joy, hippie, -
Fall of Saigon 1975
north Vietnam and viet cong forces captured the south vietnamese capital Saigon, forcing them to surrender and bringing the vietnam war to a end. -
1980s
lots of drugs really big in the 80s, cars, hip hop, music, punk rock -
Cold war
a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. -
Matshall Plan
gave 13 in the economic support to help rebuild western european econocmics after world war 2
