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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower was very much involved with a lot of things. He was a five star general, supreme commander of the allied forces, and he was also the 34th president of the United States from 1953-1961. -
Ray Kroc
He was the man that created the very big business of McDonald's. -
Lyndon B Johnson
He was our 36th persident from 1963-1969. During his term he had delt with the civil rights act and vietnam. -
Richard Nixon
Nixon was the 37th president of the united states. He was the first president to be impeached, he also resigned because of the watergate scandal. -
Jonas Salk
Jona Salk was the man who created the Polio vaccine. He made the vaccine whenever polio was the biggest health problem in post war America. -
John F. Kennedy
John F Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. He was president from 1961 to his assassination in 1963. JFK delt with the cuban missle crisis and part of the civil rights act. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 1963. During his term they called it "Camelot". -
Gary Powers
Gary Powers was the pilot for the plane that was on a spying mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. -
Roy Benavidez
Roy Benavidez was a member of the U.S army he was awarded the medal of honor for his brave actions in the vietnam war. -
Abbie Hoffman
Hoffman was an activist during the late 60's and early 70's. He was the co-founder of the Internation Youth -
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House Un-American Activities Committee
a group of script writters and directors put a committee together to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations -
War Powers Act
War Powers Act is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
Containment Policy
a policy that ttries to contain communism -
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Iron Curtain
an imaginary boundry dividing europe from the end of ww2 to the end of the cold war. -
Truman Doctrine
an American foreign policy created to counter the soviets -
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Cold War
A political and military tension between the soviets and the U.S -
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Berlin Airlift
Towards the of WW2 the brittish, soviets and the u.s army forces occupied germany -
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Domino Theory
The theory of if one country becomes a communist country then soon after they all fall into the communist government -
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Korean War
The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Rosenberg Trial
The judge Irving R. Kaufman conducts over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians -
“McCarthyism”
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence -
Vietnamization
it's 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 -
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Vietnam War
A war we fought to try to stop the spread of communism -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
a 13 day confrontation between the soviets and the U.S -
Great Society
It was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson -
Anti-War Movement
A lot of the young generation got together to stop the involvement in the Vietnam war -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was made to take any measures he believed were necessary to stay in vietnam -
Tet Offensive
The U.S sent jmilitary down to vietname to take down the viet cong -
the Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe
