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Ray Kroc
Raymond Kroc was an American industrialist. He joined McDonald's in 1954 and made it into the most eminent fast food operation in the world. In 1917, 15-year-old Ray Kroc lied about his age to join the Red Cross as an ambulance driver, but the war ended before he completed his preparation. -
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John Salk
Jonas Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He found and expanded one of the first successful polio vaccines. In 1953, American virologist Jonas Salk declared the evolution of the world's first safe and potent polio vaccine. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making claim of subversion or mutiny without true consideration for proof. The phrase McCarthyism is pertained to the persecution of innocent people using powerful but unproved claims. It refers to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy's charges of communist subversion and high rebellion in the U.S. federal government in 1950s. -
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House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was an investigative board of the United States House of Representatives. Between 1938 and 1969, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) searched political reformist. -
Rock n' Roll
Rock and roll is a genre of well liked music that started and developed in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from musical styles such as gospel, jazz, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues, and country music. -
G.I. Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act 1944)
The G.I. Bill was made to assist veterans of World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemens Readjustment Act on June 22, 1944. The rise of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 was not easy. -
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical friction after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. Diligent procedures were used by both sides throughout the Cold War. During the Cold War, the Soviet military mapped the entire world, parts of it down to the level of individual buildings. -
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Baby Boom Generation
Baby boomers are the demographic group born during the post–World War II baby boom, roughly between the years 1946 and 1964. At the end of 1946, the first year of the baby boom, there were around 2.4 million baby boomers. The baby boomer generation makes up a significant piece of the North American population, representing nearly 20% of the American public. For decades, the retirement of the baby boom generation has been a brewing economic risk. -
Iron Curtain
The notional blockade separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. The Iron Curtain was the name for the border estranging Europe into two different areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. A term representing the efforts by the Soviet Union to limit itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign strategy made to counter Soviet geopolitical enlargement during the Cold War. The Truman Doctrine showed that the United States would not go back to isolationism after World War II, but rather take an dynamic role in world happenings. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American plan to help Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic aid to help remake Western European economies after the end of World War II. The first Marshall Plan, made in the start of Europe's destruction at the end of World War II, cost today's equivalent of over $100 billion. -
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Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces split and took over Germany. Also separated into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. The Berlin Blockade was one of the first disaster international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation after World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal entry to the sectors of Berlin under Western command. -
Containment Policy
Containment was a United States policy using a number of ways to stop the spread of communism abroad. An element of the Cold War, this policy was a answer to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to grow its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called is an intergovernmental military union based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. It was also the first step in the task leading to the signature of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 and the formation of the North Atlantic Alliance. -
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Levittown
Levittown is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead in Long Island, in Nassau County, New York. Levittown is halfway between the villages of Hempstead and Farmingdale. Levittown is the name of seven huge suburban establishments constructed in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons. -
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1950's Prosperity
The economy overall increased by 37% during the 1950s. Inflation, which had wreaked devastation on the economy immediately after World War II, was nominal, in part because of Eisenhower's tenacious efforts to stabilize the federal budget. The booming luxury of the 1950s helped to produce a widespread sense of balance, tranquility and harmony in the United States. However, that solidarity was a weak one, and it splintered for good during the tumultuous 1960s. -
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Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea attacked South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union gave some support. The Korean War was the first prime armed clash between Free World and Communist forces, as the so-called Cold War turned hot. -
Rosenberg Trial
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg starts in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman conducts over the espionage prosecution of the couple charged of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. The legal charge of which the Rosenbergs were found guilty was unclear: “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage.” -
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Dwight D. Eisnhower
Dwight David Eisenhower was an American statesman and Army general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He promoted Atoms for Peace during the Cold War. Dwight D. Eisenhower was a expert artisan in the demanding art of leadership. -
Domino Theory
The theory that a political circumstance in one country will create similar occurrences in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall. The domino theory was a theory famous from the 1950s to the 1980s, that theorized that if one country in a region came under the sway of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a extensive, costly armed clash that pitted the communist leadership of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The Second Indochina War grew out of the lengthy squabble between France and Vietnam. -
Interstate Highway Act
The National Interstate and Defense Highways Act was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. The law allowed the building of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the country. Currently, the Interstate System is 46,876 miles long. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first synthetic Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four outer radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. -
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Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War opponents, the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight potential. Space exploration served as another sizable arena for Cold War competition. -
Beatniks
Beatnik was a media categorized widespread throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that showed the more sketchy sides of the Beat Generation literary wing of the 1950s. A young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation. -
Moon Landing
A Moon landing is the appearance of a spacecraft on the veneer of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned operations. The first human-made object to reach the exterior of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. -
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American congressman who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He was the youngest man elected to the office. John F. Kennedy arranged the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and commenced the Alliance for Progress. -
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Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military takeover of Cuba managed by the CIA-funded paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. In response, early in 1960 President Eisenhower sanctioned the CIA to enlist 1,400 Cuban outlaws living in Miami and begin training them to dethrone Castro. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day encounter with the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with collateral Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. For 14 days in October 1962 the world stood on the verge of nuclear war. -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American author, protestor, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's lobby in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with starting the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century. With her book The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan broke new ground by reviewing the thought of women discovering direct fulfillment outside of their established roles. -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson was an American public servant who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, accepting the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy from 1961 to 1963. In the 1960 lobby, Lyndon B. Johnson was selected Vice President as John F. Kennedy's running mate. -
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Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic plan in the United States started by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main objective was the elimination of poverty and racial corruption. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joint commitment that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in reply to the Gulf of Tonkin event. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave broad congressional consent for extension of the Vietnam War. -
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Anti-War Movement
An anti-war movement is a social party, usually in opposition to a particular nation's settlement to begin or carry on an armed clash, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The label can also concerns to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during strife. -
Tet Offensive 1968
The Tet Offensive was one of the biggest military operations of the Vietnam War, started on January 30, 1968, by groups of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the parties of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and their allies. The Tet Offensive was the real turning point in the Vietnam War. -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization of the war was a system of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through an agenda to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and gave to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily lowering the number of U.S. combat troops. -
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Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was an American legislator who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to leave from office. -
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26th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be rejected or curtailed by the United States or by any State on account of age. The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for oppose the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old. -
War Powers Act
The War Powers Resolution is a federal law intended to check the president's authority to devote the United States to an armed dispute without the approval of the U.S. Congress. The War Powers Resolution was passed in 1973 by both Houses of Congress, revoking the veto of President Nixon. It was passed to reassert Congressional power over the decision to send American troops to war. -
Rust Belt vs Sun Belt
The Rust Belt is a phrase for the region of the United States from the Great Lakes to the upper Midwest States, referring to economic downfall, population loss, and urban decline due to the decreasing of its once-powerful industrial sector, also known as deindustrialization. There have been a few major periods of migration within the United States, each accompanied by major economic changes.
