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House Un-American Activities Commitee
a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations -
war powers act
allows Congress to limit the President's use of military forces. President must tell Congress within 48 hours if he sends armed forces anywhere -
G.I. Bill
ill refers to any Department of Veterans Affairs education benefit earned by members of Active Duty, Selected Reserve and National Guard Armed Forces and their families. -
Iron Curtain
the term used in the West to refer to the boundary line which divided Europe into two separate areas. -
Baby Boom Generator
Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. -
Truman Doctrine
A documnet where president Truman asked congress fro 400 million in military and economic help for Turkey and Greece. -
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Cold war
A constant nonviolent state of hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States -
Marshall plan
and act where it was proposed that the United States provided economic help 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. -
Containment Policy
Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
A security group that was established by the North Atlantic treaty. -
McCarthysim
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence -
Korean War
A conflict that lasted from 1950 to 1953 between North Korea, aided by China, and South Korea, aided by United Nations -
Dwaight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower was the 34th president. -
Rosenberg Trail
A trail of an American couple who were executed in 1953 for being spies for the Soviet Union. -
Domino Theory
A theory which said that if one country became under the influence on communism then the rest of the places would follow in a "dominos effect" -
Ray Kroc
He joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world -
Venona papers
a list of names ostensibly deciphered from codenames contained in the Venona project, an American government effort from 1943-1980 to decrypt coded messages by intelligence forces of the Soviet Union. -
Jonas Halk
Jonas Salk developed the first effective vaccine against polio. -
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Vietnam war
The cold war between north and south vietnam. Where the US also got involve with hope to stop Communism. -
Interstate highway act
An act to amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road -
Space Race (Sputnik and Moon landings)
The space race was a competition between the US and the USSR for supremacy in spaceflight capability. -
John F. Kennedy
John was the 35th President of the united states. He dealt with the Cold War, Cuban Mistle crisis and the Berlin during his time being the president. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A dissagrement between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba -
Betty Friedan
with her book she broke any kind of "role" for woman.
She made it open for the woman to stand up and do something else. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson was the 36th prsident, who became president due to the assasination of Kennedy. -
Anti war Movements
is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This act authorized President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Great Society
a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs. -
Miranda vs Arizona
In miranda vs Arizaona the Supreme Court ruled that detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination. -
Abbie Hoffman
Abbie was the co-founder of Youth International Party. -
Tet Offensive 1968
Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam -
Ricahrd Nixon
Richard was the 37th president of the United states -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam -
Gary Powers
He was the pilot who drove a U-2 spy plane until he was shot down. -
Roy Benavidez
was a member of the United States Army Special Forces and retired United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor -
Rust belt and Sun belt
The Sun Belt is a region of the United States generally considered to stretch
The Rust Belt is a term for the region straddling the upper Northeastern United States, the Great Lakes, and the Midwest States, referring to economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once powerful industrial sector.
