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House Un-American Activities Comittee (HUAC)
A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations. Its first chairman, Martin Dies, set the pattern for its anti-Communist investigations. -
War Powers Act
Was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
GI BIll
Was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). Benefits included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend university, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. -
Iron curtain
Was the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Baby boom
After the WW2 the number of annual births exceeded 2 per 100 women (or approximately 1% of the total population size). [citation needed] There are an estimated 78.3 million Americans who were born during this period. -
Truman Doctrine
The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. -
Codl War
Was the tension between the US and the Soviet Union. The fight of communism and democracy. -
Containtment Policy
Was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
Marshall Plan
was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War 2. -
Berlin Airlift
The Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, a difficult feat given the city's population. The soviets made a blockade -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
1950s
The United States in the 1950s experienced marked economic growth – with an increase in manufacturing and home construction amongst a post-World War II economic boom. Also the Cold war happened. Rock n Roll became popular and Elvis Presly was really famous. -
Rock n Roll
A popular music originating in the 1950s, characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies. Elvis Presly was known as the king of Rock n Roll. -
McCarthyism
Is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
Korean War
Was a 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. The war was fought to prevent communism. -
Rosenberg Trail
The espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. -
Domino Theory
The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
Jonas Salk
Was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine. -
Space Race (Spuntik and Moon landings)
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability -
Interstate Highway Act
It was the $100,000 approved for the construction of 41,000 miles (66,000 km) of the Interstate Highway System supposedly over a 10-year period, it was the largest public works project in American history through that time. -
1960s
John F Kennedy became President. The Cold war tension rose and the Cuban missile Crisis happened. Kennedy was assasinated in this decade. Matin Luther King fought for civil rights and a lot of Civil Right Movements were created. The vietnam war was intense. Also the Space Race occured by this time. -
Beatniks
Was a media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
John F. Kennedy
American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961. Also contributed in the Cold War -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. Along with being televised worldwide, it was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.[1] -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
It gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia. -
Great Society
A set of domestic programs that the main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. -
Anti-War Movement include
The movement against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War began small–among peace activists and leftist intellectuals on college campuses–but gained national prominence in 1965, after the United States began bombing North Vietnam in earnest. Anti-war marches and other protests, such as the ones organized by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), attracted a widening base of support over the next three years, peaking in early 1968 after the successful Tet Offensive by North Vietnamese troops pro -
Mirands V Arizona
Was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court. In a 5-4 majority, the Court held that both inculpatory and exculpatory statements made in response to interrogation by a defendant in police custody will be admissible at trial only if the prosecution can show that the defendant was informed of the right to consult with an attorney before and during questioning and of the right against self-incrimination before police questioning, and that the defendant not only understood these rights -
Tet Offensive
Was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. -
Vietnamization
Was a 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 and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops. -
1970s
The Vietnam War. New music was created, fashion and hippies. Protest against the War. The United States suffered when soldiers were captured and killed with out reason. The US was fighting a war that had no significance. -
Sun belt
Sun Belt or Sunbelt, southern tier of the United States, focused on Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California, and extending as far north as Virginia. -
26th Amendment
Prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy, from 1961 to 1963. -
The Vietnam war
The war started when Ho Chi Minh revolted against the French colonists. Ho Chi Minh overthrew the governement and tried to made Vietnam communist. The US fought in the South Vietnamese's side to prevent communism spreading. The US loss the war in Saigon where the Ceased fired with North Vietnam in 1975. -
1980s
Baby boom, economie was growing and cars and other more important fun stuf was growing during the 80's. Also films were getting really popular at that time becuase pof their new effects on movies. -
Rust belt
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. -
Ray Kroc
American businessman that joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. -
Abbie Hoffman
Was an American political and social activist and anarchist[1][2][3] who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). -
Richard Nixon
Was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office. Nixon had previously served as a U.S. Representative and Senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. -
Roy Benavidez
Was a member of the United States Army Special Forces (Studies and Observations Group) and retired United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor (1981) for his valorous actions in combat near Lộc Ninh, South Vietnam on May 2, 1968. -
Betty Friedan
Was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.
