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Dwight D. Eisenhower
he was a military general. he is also known as his presidency. he signed the civil rights act. became the first supreme general of NATO. -
Ray Kroc
he had became involved in McDonalds. in 1955 he became president of the McDonalds cooparation. when ray died McDonald’s had 7,500 locations in 31 countries and was worth $8 billion. His personal fortune was estimated at $500 million -
Lyndon B. Johnson
he was the 36th president in 1963. kennedy had offered Lyndon the vice presidency and he took it. Johnson headed the space program, oversaw negotiations on the nuclear test ban treaty. -
Jonas Salk
in 1947 took a podition at pittsburg university. by 1951 he has figured out there were 3 distinct types of polio. he later than lunched hison organization in 1963. -
John F. Kennedy
he was the 35th president. he had negotiated the nuclear test-ban treaty. in 1952 kennedy had challenged Henry Cabot Lodge for his seat in the U.S. senate. Kennedy was the second youngest president in the U.S. Capitalizing on the spirit of activism he had helped to ignite kennedy -
Betty Friedan
she was a feminedt writer she wrote a book called the feminine Mystique in 1963. she also helped advance the womens rights movement. -
Roy Benavidez
he fought in the vietnam war. He -
Abbie Hoffman
An American political activist. Known as Abbort Howard. He was involved in the civil acts movement until he becamse involved in the protest of vietnam war, economy. -
baby boom generation
when soldiers came home and been with their wifes they moved to the suberban areas and started a family. 1946 than ever before: 3.4 million, 20 percent more than in 1945. -
Venona papers
held the top secret secrets of the cold war. -
G.I. Bill
from 1944-49 9 million veretan received 4 billion dollars from G.I bills unemployment program. It established veterans’ hospitals, provided for vocational rehabilitation, made low-interest mortgages available, and granted stipends covering tuition and living expenses for veterans attending college or trade schools. -
iron curtain
it was a boundary divinding europe into two seperate from the end of ww2. they seperated from NATO and warsaw pact. east of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the former Soviet Union. Iron Curtain was used in literature and politics earlier, it was made popular by Winston Churchill, who used it publicly in a speech in March of 1946. 1945-91 -
Medicaid/ Medicare
medicade is a federal system of insurance. Medicaid was also created by social security amendment. Truman had sent a essage to congress for creating health insurance. it wasnt until 1965 when people were receiving medicare health coverage. -
Truman Doctrine
designed to contain communism. the Truman Doctrine extended to anywhere aid was given to support a non-communist government. some consider the truman doctrine -
the cold war
the cold war was between the US and the USSR. the cold war was to dominate international affiars. before the war America had depicted the Soviet Union as almost the devil-incarnate. before the US and Soviet ought together against the axis powers. the Soviets became communist. the cold war ended in 1991 -
The marshall plan
would provide aid to any part of Europe that needed it. they did it so that Europe can rebuild fro the damaged made to the country. the reason why is because the western Europe had struggled to revive from the war. -
berlin airlift
germany was divided after ww2. city of berlin lay in soviet zone. the soviets closed all rail and highway routes into the city. -
containment policy
is a military way of stopping the expansion of an enemy. this Policy of Containment stated that the US would try to stop or to contain the spread of Communism by creating strategic alliances or support to help weak countries to resist Soviet advances. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
NATO was established by the US. and europe countries. following ww2. the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, and Iceland were the only countries that were supposed to be involved. they agreed to come to aid with any member that was attacked. -
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HUAC
they got the names of people who were involved or that were communist. the committee was established in 1938. in 1969 the name was changed to the committee of internal security. the HUAC controvercial tactics contributed with fear. the operations continued until 1975. -
McCarthyism
it refers not only to unfair or unwanted accusations of being a communist sympathies, but also to underhanded intimidatory or fearmongering tactiscs for political gain. the McCarthyism is also refered to as the second red scare. -
korean war
korea divided after ww2. north Korea communist and South Korea non-communist. north Korea invaded south Korea June 1950. North Korea was ran by the soviet union and the south was ran by the US. the end of the war was july 27 1953 -
Rosenberg Trail
the trail lasted nearly a month. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. The Rosenbergs, and co-defendant, Morton Sobell, were defended by the father and son team of Emanuel and Alexander Bloch. -
Domino Theory
is when a country makes another country fall and when that country falls so does the other and so on until every country has fallen. -
interstate highway act
President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. highway advocates argued, in case of atomic attack on our key cities, the road net would permit quick evacuation of target areas. -
Space Race (sputnik and moon landings)
it started around the same time the cold war started. -
Gary powers
An American who was flying the spyplane was shot down while flying through the soviet. he was captured. -
bay of pigs
Kennedy had inherited Eisenhower’s CIA campaign to train and equip a guerilla army of Cuban exiles, but he had some doubts about the wisdom of the plan. The last thing he wanted, he said, was “direct, overt” intervention by the American military in Cuba: The Soviets would likely see this as an act of war and might retaliate. -
cuban Missile crisis
notified Americans about presence of missiles. The president decided to do a blockade on cuba and to use military forces if necassary to nuetralize the situation. A U-2 spyplane was to go over cuba and snap pictures of cuba -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
president johnson unprovoked attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the destroyers Maddox and C. Turner Joy of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin on August 2 and also on August 4th. both houses of congress passed the resoulution act on August 7th. -
Miranda V. Arizona
Miranda was not informed of his rights prior to the police interrogation. -
Tet Offensive 1968
is the new year and also there was a suprise attack on vietnam -
vietnamization
involved building up South Vietnam’s military strength in order to facilitate a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops, would prepare the South Vietnamese to take responsibility for their own defense against a Communist takeover and allow the U.S. to leave the conflict with its honor intact. -
Rust Belt and Sun Belt
people moved to the south because people in the south were loosing their jobs. More jobs avalible for others and better jobs. the rust belt are areas of the middleeast and northeastern united states. also known as the manufacturing belt. they had booming and iron factories. the sunbelt is boosted by chemical, electronic, agricultural, aerospace, and oil industries, as well as weapons productions for military advancement projects. most people who came here were people from the rust belt. -
Richard Nixon
had resigned in August 9, 1974. after leaving the office him and his wife left to Califonia. he was also the 37th president. halfway through his second term, rather than face impeachment over his efforts to cover up illegal activities by members of his administration in the Watergate scandal -
Vietnam War including the fall of saigon
capture of Saigon by North Vietnamese forces on April 30, 1975. bombing the city on April 29. 324th division was PVAN forces pushed into saigon. -
Great Society
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1950's prosperity (include suburbanism and white light)
