Key Terms

  • G.I Bill

    G.I Bill
    about getting education for college for working in the miltary
  • House Un-American Activites Commite (HUAC)

    House Un-American Activites Commite (HUAC)
    a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, investigated allegations of communist activity in the U.S. during the early years of the Cold War
  • cold war

    cold war
    About Russia Spreading commommuism and america trying to prevent it
  • Rust Belt and Sun Belt

    Rust Belt and Sun Belt
    People moving to the south
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    pproved funding that would eventually rise to over $12 billion for the rebuilding of Western Europe.
  • NATO

    NATO
    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization,
  • Iron Curtain

    Wall sepratating europe and to two sides from east and west
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.
  • 1950s Prosperity

    1950s  Prosperity
    Soilders buying houses that were from ww2 and korean war
  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization
    Train non American soilders to fight in Vietman
  • Beatnik

    Beatnik
    a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation.
  • Curban Missile Crisis

    Curban Missile Crisis
    Quatine about russia sending weapons to cuba
  • McCarthyism

    McCarthyism
    McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
  • Rock and Rolll

    Rock and Rolll
    is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s
  • 1950s Culture

    1950s Culture
    Rock and Roll
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    Discovered 1st Vacinicne for Polio That works
  • Domino Theroy

    Domino Theroy
    If one country becomes a communist the next country will be and so on
  • Containment Policy

    Containment Policy
    Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
  • Baby Boom generation

    Baby Boom generation
    Baby popuplation increased after ww2
  • dwight eisenhower

    dwight eisenhower
    34 Us President
  • Rosenberg Trial

    Rosenberg Trial
    The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court.
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    When North korea invaded south korea July 27, 1953
  • Ray Kroc

    Ray Kroc
    Created Mcdonalds change fast food
  • Vietman War

    Vietman War
    War about north vietman and fall of saigon Saigon, capital city of South Vietnam, fell to North Vietnamese
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    Vietnam War

  • Interstate Highway Act

    Interstate  Highway Act
    The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act
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    Space Race

  • Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1
    First Man Made satellite
  • Laika

    Laika
    First animal to go space
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    , a young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista the nation’s American-backed president
  • JFK

    JFK
    35th President Was Assianmatned
  • Anti-War Movement

    Anti-War Movement
    An anti-war movement (also antiwar) 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.
  • 1960s

    1960s
    The space race Hippy times
  • Garry Powers

    Garry Powers
    American Pilot of the CIA U-2 Spyplane That was shot down by soivent union missles
  • Lyndon B Johnson

    Lyndon B Johnson
    36 president
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resoloution

    Gulf of Tonkin Resoloution
    authorizing 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

    Great Society
    was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in
  • Miranda V. Arizona

    Miranda V. Arizona
    Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court.
  • Betty friedan

    Betty friedan
    created the National Organization for Women.June 30, 1966,
  • Abbie Hoffman

    Abbie Hoffman
    founder of the Youth International Party
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    January 31, 1968, some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive, a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam.
  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon
    37 president
  • 1970s

    1970s
    Color drugs peace Disco
  • 26 Amendment

    26 Amendment
    Rights for 18 and older to vote
  • War Powers Act

    War Powers Act
    " was passed to limit the power of the president to deploy military forces without the consent of Congress.
  • 1980s

    1980s
    Reagan
    The Decade of Excess was also the glory days of the Me Generation, helping form what was 80s culture.
  • Roy Benavidez

    Roy Benavidez
    Brave Soilder from Vietnam War who won award